Lake Ridge, Va. — The neighborhood library that has had more homes than any other in Prince William County is about to move again.
The Lake Ridge Neighborhood Library will move from the Fairfield Office Park on Harbor Drive where it’s been since 1995 back to nearby Tackett’s Mill Shopping Center. The library recently inked a new lease with the shopping center’s management company, Rappaport Companies, and will move into a 3,500-square foot space on the upper level of the shopping center between a pizzeria and barbershop, near a Safeway grocery store.
“For years we’ve had people come in and say they have a hard time finding us, or call and say they can’t find us at all,” said library supervisor Lynn Casey.
The library has not announced a moving date , and officials with the county’s library office had been looking for a new space for at least the past six months, added Casey. The library will pay about $38,000 per year for the space, about $15,000 less than what they were paying to house the neighborhood facility in the office park.
The library’s relocation will benefit not only the shopping center but the neighborhood too, said Prince William Occoquan District Supervisor Mike May.
“…the location is much more visible and will attract many folks who might not have otherwise had occasion to visit this section of Tackett’s Mill. This will, in turn, benefit the other businesses that are located there–after people are done visiting the library, they may want to grab a bite to eat or stop in at one of the other shops. Hopefully the new library location brings new vitality and excitement to this part of the center,” said May.
The Lake Ridge Neighborhood Library opened in 1985 in Tackett’s Mill but moved the facility to the nearby office park in the mid-1990s due to budget cuts, according to the library’s webpage.
The library is one of six neighborhood libraries in Prince William County.
Also slated to open in Tackett’s Mill is Patient First Neighborhood Medical Center. With a location in North Stafford, the new location in Lake Ridge will be the walk-in clinic’s second site in the Potomac Communities.
Patient First will be built in the on a pad site where an old Shell gas station used to sit, said Rappaport Companies spokeswoman Sheryl Simeck.
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