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.

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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 ...

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 ...

What would you do with an old abandoned Walmart? Creating a massive library probably isn't the first thing to come to mind, but that's what happened in the town of McAllen, Texas, reports Dave Pinter ...

The former 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 building might ...