[1] The building, at NE 41st Avenue and Tillamook Street, opened in 2002, and has three residential stories above the library.

[2] The previous building, constructed in 1959 at NE 39th Avenue and Hancock Street, was expected to be sold in 2003 to a private party, for its appraised price of $675,000.

[4] Heavily used, the library soon ran short of space, and neighborhood residents sought funds for a larger building.

Voters in that year approved a bond measure to improve libraries, especially the Hollywood branch and three others.

The library hired architect Thomas Hacker and Associates and Sockeye Hollywood, a development firm, to construct a mixed-use building at NE 41st Avenue and Tillamook Street.