The Executive Director of the Winter Park Public Library, Shawn Shafferas, hopes the cafe on the first floor of the upcoming Winter Park Public Library will be a draw on its own outside of the folks coming to use the library's main resources as first reported by Orange Observer.
Shafferas envisions something akin to New General, a high end minimalist shop and cafe just off Park Ave. She envisions a coffee and tea menu and a New General-esque food menu of toasts and salads: items that do not require much cooking.
The cafe will also contain a bookstore
The goal is to have the library open by 2020. It will be located inside the Martin Luther King Jr. Park at Morse & Harper. Adjaye Associates created the conceptual design. The full cost of the new library will be $30 million dollars.
