Update: New Central Library Progress

Courtesy AustinTowers Downtown Condo Blog  Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:23pm

The City of Austin has more residents than the cities of Boston (although the Austin MSA is smaller than the Boston metropolitan area), Seattle and Nashville.

Austin's central library is 110,000 square feet - 1/5 the size of Boston's main library, 1/3 of Nashville's, and 1/5 of Seattle's.

The Austin central library seats 300 people while Boston's library seats 4,400. Austin has 75 public computers vs. 550 in Boston and 400 in Seattle.

Right now, the City is actively...


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