New Library and Cultural Center Coming to Downtown Carrboro!

Check here for the latest! Completion is anticipated by Spring 2024
  • Future home of Carrboro Recreation, Parks and Cultural Resources; Orange County Southern Branch Library; Orange County Skills Development Center; WCOM Radio; a teen center and performance/multipurpose uses. 
  • Accessible from Chapel Hill Transit bus routes CW, F and J routes, the Go Triangle 405 route, a soon-to-be built sidewalk along S. Greensboro Street, and the Libba Cotten Bikeway 
  • New facility will include parking deck with 171 vehicle parking spaces and 70 bike parking spots. 
  • If you would like to be included on a neighborhood email list, which includes residents living in the adjacent neighborhood and the local business community, reach us at the203project@carrboronc.gov  We will send you project updates! 
  • The Town of Carrboro will post monthly project updates here on the Town website and through social media. Sign up to receive Carrboro Town News at www.carrboronc.gov/signup

The 203 Project is located at 203 S. Greensboro Street, an existing Carrboro municipal parking lot near the center of the town. This is a combined effort between the Town of Carrboro and Orange County to create a community  three-story public facility with opportunities for education, art and connection.

  1. March 2023

Duke Energy will be performing utility work around the construction site on March 16-17 which will have traffic impacts between the hours of 9a.m. and 4 p.m.  Roberson Street traffic will be detoured to use the Main Street intersection instead of S. Greensboro Street. Maple Avenue residents will continue to use E. Carr Street and Maple Avenue Extension. Flaggers and temporary signs will be used to direct traffic.  

On March 14, an early morning concrete pour is scheduled for the first floor slab.  The pour will begin around 3 a.m. with concrete deliveries continuing throughout the morning.

In other updates, the site foundations and footings are nearly complete with more construction trades beginning to mobilize onsite.

  1. February 2023
  1. January 2023
  1. December 2022
  1. November 2022
  1. October 2022
  1. September 2022
  1. August 2022
  1. May 2022 - Groundbreaking
  1. Project Contacts
  1. Project Background