San Diego’s newest library branch will be family focused

It took nearly two decades, but a design-build team finally broke ground last month on a new branch of the public library system for the city of San Diego.

The 14,376-sf Mission Hills-Hillcrest Harley & Bessie Knox Public Library—named after the city’s former mayor and his wife, whose family is one of the new library’s donors—will be nearly four times larger than the 3,850-sf, 56-year-old branch it replaces.