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Penn Township Public Library   Harrison City, PA

The Municipality of Penn Township was rapidly outgrowing its existing municipal building when the Board of Supervisors interviewed and retained RSSC to provide a plan for their future needs. That existing municipal building, which housed administrative offices, police, library, tax office and public works, did not provide adequate space. The site was not large enough to allow for the required additional space for each department and had little room for expansion. Also, a conflict existed between the truck traffic, police car traffic and the pedestrians using the library.

The Supervisors proposed to relocate the police department and public works off site to another property owned by the township. The existing municipal building could then be extensively renovated to provide more space for the library and municipal offices. The entire lower level, previously utilized as garages for the public works department, were converted into a new, state-of-the-art public library with stack space, work space and community space large enough to serve the growing population. The upper level offices and council chambers were renovated and re-configured to provide improved offices and meeting facilities. The exterior of the existing building also underwent a transformation into an attractive, workable municipal center.

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