Library services may return to Bloomfield neighborhood
Library services could return to a southwest Macon neighborhood.
A plan is underway to have the Middle Georgia Regional Library use space inside a renovated Gilead-Bloomfield complex. The Macon-Bibb County Commission would have to sign off on an agreement that would partner the regional library with the recreation department.
The library would help fill a void left by the former Rocky Creek Road library that closed in the 1990s. The library would provide digital and print resources to the adult and children’s education programs at the site, according to a resolution.
“It would be a one stop for athletics as well as educational needs and eventually performance arts,” Macon-Bibb Recreation Director Reggie Moore said at a Nov. 22 commission meeting.
The master plan for the site, which includes the former Gilead Christian Academy and adjacent Bloomfield Park, is to create a cultural arts center. Also, an educational facility for science, technology, engineering, mathematics — STEM — will be located at the 1931 Rocky Creek Road site, while multipurpose ballfields will be added as well.
Stanley Dunlap: 478-744-4623, @stan_telegraph
This story was originally published November 25, 2016 at 9:54 AM with the headline "Library services may return to Bloomfield neighborhood."