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2024–2026
The plan: In 2024 the library opened a ten-year Facilities Master Plan for its nine branches — Our Next Chapter — designed with MKM architecture + design, taking the branches one by one. The Centre Branch came first: closed on 25 November 2024, it reopened in the fall of 2025, ahead of schedule. The LaSalle Branch followed, closed in May 2025 for a year-long renovation and reopened on 4 May 2026. The Western Branch is next, and it is also a move: the branch is relocating into the former Z.B. Falcons building — a west-side landmark raised in 1898 — where construction was under way in the autumn of 2026, with the library's Foundation raising the money for the building's funding and a Garden Playscape beside it, and its Local & Family History department collecting the West Side's stories for the new building's walls. The branch plan continues past this history's closing date.
Sources:
- St. Joseph County Public Library, "Our Next Chapter" (sjcpl.org) — the ten-year Facilities Master Plan with MKM architecture + design from 2024; Centre closed 25 November 2024 and reopened ahead of schedule; LaSalle closed May 2025 and reopened 4 May 2026.
- St. Joseph County Public Library, news posts of October 2026 — the Western Branch moving into the former Z.B. Falcons building (built 1898), construction under way; the Foundation campaign; the West Side story collection.