Upgrades to the 110-year-old library at 2747 Erie Ave. in Hyde Park Square were to begin next year.
But the schedule was moved up to accommodate a developer building shops and apartments next door at the corner of Erie and Michigan avenues.
Falling Leaves, LLC, of Hyde Park, needed to tear up the library’s parking lot for a sewer connection to its five-story project on the former site of the Hyde Park Baptist Church, which was razed. The parking lot is to be restored with improvements when the work is done.
The temporary Hyde Park library branch will operate at 3764 Paxton Ave. until renovations are complete at the Erie Avenue library, which is expected to be in mid-2023.
