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Marion County Residents Invited to “Sign the Beam” at Special Library Events

Library News & Announcements RSS Feed September 19, 2005

Marion County residents are invited to become a part of Indianapolis history when the final beam of steel to be placed atop the new six-story tower at the transformed Central Library comes to various library and community locations Thursday, September 29 between 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Citizens can sign their names to the beam at the East Thirty-Eighth Street Branch, 5420 E. 38th Street (8:30 – 9 a.m.); the Glendale Branch, 6101 N. Keystone Avenue (9:30 – 10 a.m.); the College Avenue Branch, 4180 N. College Avenue (10:30 – 11 a.m.); the City Market, 222 E. Market Street (11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.); or the Shelby Branch, 2502 Shelby Street (1 – 1:30 p.m.).

The beam will be raised and set in place during a ceremonial “Topping Out Event” on Friday, September 30 at 2 p.m. at the Central Library construction site downtown on E. 9th Street between Meridian and Pennsylvania Streets. This will complete the steel erection phase of the library’s construction project. Light refreshments will be served.

For those not able to attend any of the previous signing events, the beam will be available for signing prior to the “Topping Out Event” on September 30 from 1:30 – 1:50 p.m.

The final placement of steel represents a major milestone in the Central Library transformation project. Concrete pours for each floor of the 190-thousand-square-foot tower will be completed by the end of the year, while steel construction on the 12-thousand-square-foot Atrium that links the new tower with the existing 1917 Cret Building will be completed this winter.

For more information about the Central Library transformation, visit the Central Library Construction pages.