Evolving from community feedback gathered during strategic planning in spring 2021, the LVDL Outdoor Space Plan is a series of 26 individual projects that will be completed over a several years. Phase I, recently completed in October 2024, brought shade and extra seating to main entrance.
Phase II, The Great Lawn, is currently being designed. At a recent LVDL Board of Trustees Meeting, Hitchcock Design Group presented the 50% plan which you can view here. Construction is expected to begin in spring of 2025.
Enhancing the hospitality and function of the main entrance was the goal of Phase I. By adding more comfortable seating, shade structures and expanding connectivity, library visitors now have more areas to read, study and work. Joseph J. Henderson & Son completed the project in October 2024.
A timeline of the project is as follows:
| - Presentation of Phase II 50% Complete Plan | November 2024 |
| - Phase I was completed | October 2024 |
| - The design contract for Phase II, The Library’s Great Lawn, was signed with Hitchcock Design Group | September 2024 |
| - LVDL awarded Open Space Land Acquisition & Development Grant | January 2024 |
| - Contract signed with Joseph J. Henderson & Son | January 2024 |
| - Request for proposals | November 2024 |
| - Phase I Project selected - Library Garden | September 2023 |
| - Presentation of 95% Complete Plan | March 2023 |
| - Presentation of 50% Complete Plan | November 2022 |
| - Community survey & focus groups | May 2022 |
| - Contract signed with Hitchcock Design Group | January 2022 |
| - Interviewed the top three firms | December 2021 |
| - Request for Qualifications for Landscape Architects | October 2021 |
