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2019–2029 and beyond · the system's Renovation FAQ; the project consultant's published description; the trade press; the Our Next Chapter plan page
The renovated Main reopened on 14 November 2021 — the banked file's one line — and behind that line stands a project whose price the carriers do not agree on, printed here whole, and a ten-year plan in which Lakeville's own branch waits in the last cohort with no published figure at all. The project first: all three upper floors of the 85,000-square-foot Main Library renovated, with a new three-story, 38,000-square-foot Community Learning Center beside it — the Main reopening 14 November 2021, the Community Learning Center opening 10 January 2022, fine-free from that January. The money prints in conflict, recorded in this lane's accounting as NEW-A-2 and never merged: the library's project consultant, Kimberly Bolan & Associates, describes a $38 million project funded by the library with the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County and the City of South Bend; Building Design + Construction (January 2023) calls it a $40 million project on the same partnership; and the library's own Renovation FAQ, asked directly how it was paid for, answers that the library saved $3.5 million and "the rest will be funded with a small bond issue" — naming no bond amount at all. Three carriers, three strengths, no harmonized figure: the bond's amount stands owed to the system's board and finance records, the settler named for this row, and until they are read the conflict is the fact. The forward plan digs cleaner. Our Next Chapter, the system's ten-year branch revitalization begun in 2024 with MKM architecture + design, prints its timeline on the system's own page: 2024, Centre Branch — renovated for $1.5 million and reopened 2 September 2025, the cohort's scale in a single figure; 2025, Western and LaSalle; 2026, River Park; and "2029 and Beyond": German, North Liberty — and Lakeville. For Lakeville's turn the plan publishes no scope and no figure in any carrier reached, and that absence is itself this row's answer for the branch: the Lakeville Branch's revitalization is scheduled, unscoped and unpriced in the public record, last cohort with German and North Liberty, sometime in or after 2029. Town readers who want the number will wait for the same board and finance records that hold the Main's bond; both stand named, current, in this lane's accounting.