Parkland Library expected to reopen in 2025 [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Officials announced on Tuesday one of the Louisville Free Public Library branches being renovated is expected to open in March 2025.

Louisville leaders originally closed the Parkland Library in the 1980s because of budget cuts.

Some of the other projects include building a brand new library in Fern Creek and renovating the main library campus in downtown Louisville.

Officials involved with the project credit the community for giving it momentum.

“The library had a master plan in 2008 that laid out all of the capital development that would happen across Jefferson County over the next 12 or 14 years, reopening the Parkland Library was not part of that plan,” Executive Director Lee Burcham said. “This is happening because a group of citizens got together and rallied together behind the idea of …