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# NEWS BRIEFS Main library gets redesign
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/news-briefs-main-library-gets-redesign/
- Published: 2002-05-16T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:17:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Proposed plans for the new Main Library facility were publicly displayed at Tuesday night’s city council meeting.

While three levels of subterranean parking would be created, the current parking lot would be replaced with a park-like setting.

Acentral courtyard would be built, allowing library goers to relax with a book and grab a cup of coffee from a proposed cafe.

Pictured below are drawings of the building from the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Sixth Street. The illustrations below that are of an overhead of the facility and a view from the main reading room.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 16, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051602.pdf?ref=smdp.com)