Jones Library

A re-tooled plan to expand the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts has been going before various committees, about a month before library officials put the project out to bid again. Some hope dropping certain aspects of the project will be enough to get shovels in the ground.

A project to expand and renovate the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts has been the subject of much debate by the town council lately. Earlier this month, councilors narrowly rejected a motion to recommend stopping it, and on Monday, June 17, the body rejected another involving a new contract with the project’s architects.

Officials in Amherst, Massachusetts have been revisiting plans to renovate the town's library. The multi-million-dollar project was knocked off-course recently, when the only general contractor bid it received was almost 20 percent higher than expected.

Renovations to one of the busiest libraries in western Massachusetts could potentially begin in the very near future.