There is at least one Walmart store location in most American towns and cities. These stores are giant, taking up an average 2.5 football fields worth of space. So what happens when one closes down? It’s an awful lot of space to just let sit there.
Officials in McAllen, Texas, were faced with this problem when their local Walmart shut down. Instead of letting the giant store sit vacant, they did something amazing. They transformed it into the largest single-floor public library in America.
Now this is the library of my dreams.
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After stripping out the old walls and ceiling, the developers opted for a very modern feel for the space.
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The library now boasts 16 public meeting spaces, 14 public study rooms, 64 computer labs, 10 children’s computer labs, and 2 genealogy computer labs.
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Of course there is also a cafe, a used book store, an auditorium, and self check-out stations.
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Even the grounds look amazing. This has to be the coolest public library ever.
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