My City June 2022

Your New Flint Public Library A Wonderful Place for the People

BY PETER HINTERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATY KILDEE

Kay Schwartz, Director of the Flint Public Library (FPL), remembers February 29, 2020 like it was yesterday. “at was the last day the old FPL was open to the public. It was two weeks before the start of the pandemic and we served nearly 2,000 people that day,” she shares.e next day, the FPL was closed and a complete overhaul and renovation of the facility began. e building was stripped down to the outside walls, „oors, elevators and beams. ose who visited the library in the past would be hard-pressed to †nd any rem nant of the old layout. In fact, the library is almost unrecognizable. It’s a new start for an old and much-loved institution. 

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