Two libraries on tap for area
Within the next four years, two Wake County libraries will open in Wakefield and Wake Forest. The Wakefield library will be the Northeast Regional Library at Forest Pine Drive and Green Elm Street at 20,000 square feet and many amenities. Groundbreaking is anticipated for this coming November; it should open in January of 2016. The complete renovation and expansion of the Wake Forest Library on East Holding Avenue is planned to be complete in the spring of 2018. Terri Luke, the senior library manager for facilities and security, was the speaker last week at the annual meeting of the Friends of Wake Forest Library, and she discussed the new library building and renovation program just getting underway after a halt during the recession. Luke said the plans for the Northeast Regional Library were 95 percent complete when the county stopped all construction plans late in 2008 because of the economy.