CRAs preserve and showcase an area’s history and cultural heritage – the rooms of the 73-year-old Alice S. Williams Library may come alive again with the sights of small children learning in a new child care center.
Pensacola officials are weighing what it would take to turn the old Segregation-era library, located at 1015 N. E St., into a child care center. The building was once a daycare before it closed its doors completely in 2006.
The Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency voted unanimously Monday to approve having the city seek bids in an $800,000 restoration project to put the building back in service.
The building was nearly sold in 2020 after sitting for four years on the city’s surplus properties list, but public outcry from the Black community over its fate led the City Council to reject the sale and instead seek to save it.
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