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Mailbag: Your thoughts on an outdoor library in Tampa Bay

We asked where you’d put one in TBAY, and you sent in your ideas.

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Imagine browsing for a book along the Riverwalk, then paging along with a view.

Photo by City of Tampa, art by Pep Rally Inc.

We recently wrote about South Korea’s outdoor library concept, and where we’d like to see one somewhere in Tampa Bay. Our suggestion? North Shore Park for its peaceful waterfront views + popularity.

After that, your own ideas flooded in. Here are a few of them:

  • “Lowry Park,” suggested Teresa R.
  • One reader (who decided they shall not be named) recommended “New Tampa.”
  • “I guess North Shore Park but also somewhere not downtown as well,” added Heidi B.
  • Debra C. said Curtis Hixon Park, and Kym K. similarly suggested the broader Riverwalk area.
  • “Strum park in St. Pete,” is screaming for a park, wrote Annie P.
  • One lovely, but nameless reader wrote in to say we need a library in every park. So true.

There are more ideas to browse through — see which ones you like, or submit a response of your own.

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