By Michael Goldman, co-founder with Deborah Marks of Citizens for Sunnyvale Parks and Green Spaces
2. Camarillo Library 2007
$27M / 65,621 Sq.Ft. = $411/Sq.Ft.
This post highlights a gorgeous library in Southern California finished in 2007 for less than $500/square foot - the same year a $108M Library Bond measure went to the voters in Sunnyvale for nearly $1,000/sq.ft. to tear down the existing library and put up one over twice as big. Sunnyvale could have more than doubled library space at 1/4th the cost by simply putting up an additional library in another part of Sunnyvale. This would have improved children's access, cut down on traffic, and made Sunnyvale more walkable.
Previous post here:
http://cspgs.blogspot.com/2015/08/nice-libraries-for-nice-prices-1.html
New library buildings averaged just under $500/sq. ft. in California. That post is here:
http://cspgs.blogspot.com/2015/08/library-costs-build-new-vs-renovation.html -
lots of data and charts but no pretty pictures of actual libraries.
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| Camarillo Library - Under Radiant Heaven - Click to enlarge |
I get into the nitty-gritty about the actual detailed costs of this library after showing some of the wonderful pictures of this library. Skip to the bottom if you hate looking at beautiful libraries. To save download time I made the pictures smaller but if you click on them they get quite large and correspondingly gorgeous.
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| Camarillo Library Entrance - Click to enlarge |
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| Main Desk and Lobby - Click to enlarge |
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| Mosaic Zone for Teens - Click to enlarge |
The children's room is in the theme of an old sunken wooden ship (maybe a pirate ship?) It was designed by a team with experience working on Disneyland.
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| Entrance to the kids' "Discovery" zone - Click to enlarge |
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| The theme of a sunken ship - Click to enlarge |
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| A cozy nook to hide from pirates - Note the columns look like stacks of books - Click to enlarge |
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More photos like the above on Google and Yelp:
http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/camarillo-public-library-camarillo
How much did this cost? $27M for 65,621 square feet (SF) or $411 / SF of which the state bond provided $15.6M (65%) and the city of Camarillo provided their 35% share of $8.4M = $24M
plus an additional $3M from their own bond issue and a gift. That larger figure of $27M is what is used in calculating the total cost per sq.ft. The additional $3M was for books and other circulation material. It is NOT a partial accounting excluding soft costs like engineering fees and architect's fees! That $27M is
everything!
C.f., CA Dept. of Finance audit report excerpted below:
http://www.dof.ca.gov/osae/audit_reports/documents/CityofCamarilloLibraryConstructionGrantAuditMarch2009.pdf
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The accounting divides up the costs - 65% for the state bond grant and 35% for the city. The audited portion shown above was the state's share. To find the total cost you need to divide the dollar figure by 0.65 since only 65% of the total cost is detailed above.
ALL the "soft" costs are included. The following page from the same audit report is a summary.
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As reported by Camarillo an additional $3M over the $8M required by the CA bond grant was provided as excerpted below from:
http://librarycatalog.info/library/userdef/cplfacts2015.pdf
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Web site showing this architectural firm's libraries:
http://www.cwaaia.com/#!libraries/c1ctu
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