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Sarasota News Leader June 28, 2013 Page 60 GULF GATE LIBRARY DEMOLITION UNDER WAY IN SARASOTA Demolition of the original Gulf Gate Library space from 17,303 square feet to 26,000 square began at the 7112 Curtiss Avenue site in Sara- feet, according to an update provided to the sota on June 21. County Commission on June 21. The new library, which will be a two-story When the County Commission gave final apstructure, will be erected on the same prop- proval to the design of the facility, in late June erty. 2012, the grand opening was planned for May In the interim, the library is operating in about 2014. 20,100 square feet of space in Westfield Sarasota Square Mall, located at 8201 S. Tamiami The cost of the new library is about $10.1 million, according to the current fiscal year Trail. budget. The new Gulf Gate Library is scheduled to Staff Reports open in the autumn of 2014 with an increase in A contractor begins to tear down the original Gulf Gate Library building on Curtiss Avenue on June 21. Photo by Norman Schimmel