Hayward Public Library to mark five-year anniversary of its downtown home Sept. 14
September 10, 2024
Hayward Public Library will mark the five-year anniversary of the opening of the 21st Century Library and Community Learning Center with a fun-filled Saturday of activities for all ages—including art making and displays, music, poetry, a garden walk, yoga, Storytime and the unveiling of the HPL library card-design contest winner.
The downtown library at 888 C Street opened its doors on Sept. 14, 2019, followed by creation of Heritage Plaza on the adjacent block across C Street, the site of the library’s original downtown location.
The gleaming, three-story, 58,000-square-foot library and neighboring Heritage Plaza—with its central lawn, hard-scape gathering spaces, walkways, benches, gardens and arboretum of 40 species of rare and mature trees—are two civic jewels of the capital improvement program thus far funded through the Hayward half-cent sales tax.
The sales tax, authorized by voters with passage of Measure C in June 2014, also has been used to renovate and retrofit five neighborhood fire stations, construct a new Fire Station No. 6 and Regional Fire Training Center on the City’s westside and complete an edition of Hayward’s annual street Pavement Improvement Project that, at the time, was the largest in City history.
Celebration of the five-year anniversary of the downtown library is scheduled to take place at the library from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14. For more information and to ask questions, email HPL at Library.Admin@hayward-ca.gov.
