A friend had shared a story on Facebook about the McAllen, Texas main public library moving from a smaller downtown location to a renovated 124,000 square foot former Walmart building last December.

The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas, is the size of 2.5 football fields — the largest single-story library in the United States. But in its former life, its size wasn’t all that unusual. That ...

McALLEN, Tex. — The hulking husk of a vacant Walmart here in the Rio Grande Valley is enjoying an unlikely second act. When the big-box retailer moved to a larger location down the street, the ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The McAllen Public Library and Workforce Solutions are partnering to host a free job fair ...

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Text description provided by the architects. When Walmart abandoned one of its retail stores in McAllen, Texas, the city was left with the challenge of deciding what to do with the vacant building.

MCALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The McAllen Public Library was chosen as one of over 70 libraries in Texas to be awarded the Summer at the Library Grant. The $7,200 grant, presented by the Texas ...

When the Wal-Mart in the border town McAllen, Texas, closed down, the town decided to convert the massive empty space into a 124,500-square-foot library, the largest single-story library in the nation ...

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