

We were the only thing there, aside from a few small businesses." Lowes Foods at Monkey Junction 5309 Carolina Beach Road 1, Wilmington Tad’s Barber Shop 4007 Oleander Drive, Wilmington New Hanover County Library Pleasure Island Branch 1401 N Lake Park Blvd 72, Carolina Beach. When the library opened, "there was no traffic. "It's changed completely," he said of the area. When the library was built in 1992 most of the retail establishments at the intersection, including the Walmart Supercenter and Lowe's Home Improvement, didn't exist, Tuchmayer said. When the county commissioners approved spending about $440,000 to buy land for the new site near South College Road's intersection with South 17th Street in January, they said the new location should alleviate concerns of heavy traffic at the library's current location at 5155 S. "The current space is totally inadequate," he said. The Carolina Beach branch, which will be renamed "Pleasure Island branch" after the move, has been in a small, 1,400-square-foot building since the 1970s and the Myrtle Grove branch, near the intersection of South College and Carolina Beach roads, has just 40 parking spaces.

Tuchmayer said the library system has outgrown both spaces. Monkey Junction ReStore 6331 Carolina Beach Road Wilmington, NC 28412 Phone: 910.660. "We're hoping to make our services better for the community," he said. Shop today for new and used items at affordable prices Our Impact. Those projects are in addition to a plan to rehabilitate a small green space and park near the library's downtown branch. The county plans to move its Carolina Beach branch from Cape Fear Boulevard, where its been located for about 40 years, into 4,000 square feet of retail space at the Snow's Cut Shopping Center this year and will build a new branch for the Myrtle Grove area within three years, said library director Harry Tuchmayer. NEW HANOVER COUNTY - With new space in hand, the New Hanover County library system will soon have two new branches to serve residents in the southern portion of the county.
