With new library, ‘Frayser’s got it going on’
Mayor Paul Young, left, tours the new Frayser library May 15. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The new Frayser branch library opened Thursday, May 15, to a standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 people at 2220 James Road, replacing the city’s smallest branch library farther north in Frayser.
“It took a little while to build. It was one of the projects we started a little before the pandemic,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young said after the ribbon-cutting as he walked through the 20,000 square foot library with a south-facing view of the pavilion in Rodney Baber Park.
The library started as a $7 million project to be opened in January 2024. The final cost was approximately $13 million.
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