Devil’s advocate: I’m not sure a full-scale library, generally with longer hours than other places and an attractive and useful asset to everyone, including the unhoused is what other city agencies, namely anything police or emergency, would want.
Again, I am not against the homeless. But I know they frequent libraries (look at Charlotte’s old main library). And I am not knocking the importance of libraries either…I would love for a main central library in DTR (they’ve been wanting space since the original Livable Streets in 2005).
Just saying, libraries come with a lot of public-facing, social logistics that may not suit in a major civic operation building.