The brand new Colbern Road Library Center is a 33,000 square foot building serving as the hub for MCPL’s Square One Small Business Services team. Updates included: 

• A new enclosed community room with an operable partition wall that seats up to 240
• A children’s program room that seats 106
• 5 smaller collaboration rooms 
• Co-working space for entrepreneurs and small businesses
• A teen space
• A coffee shop

This project was part of Library’s Capital Improvement Plan made possible by funds from Proposition L. Along with the Mercer Zimmerman team, the architects are SAPP Design (Springfield, MO) and Helix Architecture and Design, Inc. (Kansas City, MO), and the construction firm for all projects is JE Dunn.