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on a level with extensive improvements -- a strange facade, HVAC system and skylights -- converting a retail building into a library make goods less costly than building anew
It was a literal sense to a local newspaper that sparked the idea of taking a annulled Best Product store in Overland Park, Kan., and converting it into a shire library, said Mona Carmack, head librarian of the Johnson shire Library System. "It had not at all occurred to me to use that kind of building. I began to envision what we could do there."
That vision l to the $85 million renovation of a coachman's seat store into a