It would be best if the historic Carnegie Library building at 220 S. Main, the former home of the Omnisphere, were used for a public purpose. But absent any viable plan — or the ready resources to fix and reinvent the deteriorating building — it would be much better for the city to allow Fidelity Bank to lease and renovate the building, as the company is proposing, than to leave it empty. There’s something else on the line besides the 92-year-old building’s fate, too: the city’s reputation as being hard to deal with when it comes to private use of public property.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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The best use of the historic Carnegie Library located across the street from the downtown Wichita Library would be to move the Wichita Library’s various history collection’s over there.
The library’s Native American collection located in the northeast corner of the Library’s first floor is already in bad shape. This is due to manhandling by the itinerants who hang out there although the situation has improved recently.