The area where the grand staircase, the linch-pin of the expansion and the existing structure, is visible Thursday, July 30, 2020, during a tour lead by David Johnson, executive director of the Fayetteville Public Library, and Roxi Hazelwood, development and sponsorship coordinator with the Fayetteville Public Library Foundation, of the new expansion area of the library still under construction. The new addition of 82,500-square-feet will nearly double the size of the 88,000-square-foot main library. Check out nwaonline.com/200802Daily/ and nwadg.com/photos for a photo gallery.<br />
(NWA Democrat-Gazette/David Gottschalk)