Local News in Brief : Temporary Library Found
The Los Angeles Library Commission has approved a plan to use a downtown art deco building as a temporary home for the fire-ravaged Central Library.
The commission voted 3 to 0 Wednesday to order staff members to begin negotiations to lease the Design Center at 433 S. Spring St. for use as a temporary library until the renovation of the landmark Central Library is completed in 1992.
The cost of the lease has not yet been worked out, but the owners of the building, Qvale and Qvale, have offered to give the city 48,000 square feet of space in an adjoining building lease free to sort out and thaw 700,000 water-damaged books that were frozen to minimize destruction after two arson fires closed the Central Library in 1986.
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