Statement before the Glenn A. Walsh
Council of
the
City of
Displacement of Telephone:
412-561-7876
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2006
November 13
Good morning. I am Glenn A. Walsh of
According to a news article published in the November
2 issue of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh School
Superintendent Mark Roosevelt rejected the proposal, promoted by the Children’s
Museum, to move the Rogers CAPA Middle School into the original Allegheny
Regional Branch of Carnegie Library, due to the high cost of renovating the
Library building. According to the article, Mr. Roosevelt said that the cost of
renovating the library "would be two or three times, maybe four or five
times the cost of Milliones" (school in the Hill District).
There you have it! Insurance will pay to have the
building restored as a library. But, the cost of renovating the Allegheny Regional
Library into some other use is beyond the capability of the
If you continue to allow Carnegie Library to abandon the
Allegheny Regional Library, it will be Buhl Planetarium all over again. The
Allegheny Regional Library will be empty and unused for years, probably more
than a decade. After nearly three years, the historic Hazelwood Branch Library
building, with a 250-seat auditorium, remains empty and unused with no
prospects for future use.
The property on
If you truly want to improve the North Side, the
answer is simple. Use the
The City owns both properties and several of you sit
on the Carnegie Library Board of Trustees. You can still stop this madness that
will result in an empty library building, in the center of
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