CHAMPAIGN — Details for the Champaign Public Library’s upcoming teen-focused expansion are coming to light.
The soon-to-be-developed 8,000- square-foot space on the library’s lower level, called “The Studio,” has new renderings to share from an architecture firm, and a new price tag: $3.2 million.
The library, which sits across State Street from Edison Middle School, is a common gathering point for students once classes let out. Around 150 to 200 teens arrive every afternoon of the school year for after-school programming, library Director Brittany Millington said.
“When the library built this building, they built an area on the first floor to one day be available for a staircase to go down to the lower level, envisioning there might one day need…
