{"id":60344,"date":"2022-09-22T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-panther-lake-library-reopening-date-remains-unknown\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T18:05:00","slug":"kent-panther-lake-library-reopening-date-remains-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-panther-lake-library-reopening-date-remains-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Panther Lake Library reopening date remains unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reopening date for the Kent Panther Lake Library remains unknown nearly five months after a vehicle crashed into the building.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The reopening date is still unknown,&rdquo; said Sarah Thomas, public relations specialist for the King County Library System, in a Sept. 21 email.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the vehicle against the building in the May 7 crash damaged the exterior wall and metal siding, emergency exit door, window next to the exit door and some of the roof trusses, Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The cost is still unknown,&rdquo; Thomas said about an estimate for the repairs.<\/p>\n<p>King County Library System leases the building. The property owner and JLL management company are handling the repairs and insurance claim, Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old Kent man lost control of his vehicle and hit the west side of the building, 20500 108th Ave. SE, at about 2 a.m. May 7, according to Kent Police.<\/p>\n<p>For reopening updates, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/kcls.org\/news\/kent-panther-lake-library-closed-for-repairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener\">kcls.org\/news\/kent-panther-lake-library-closed-for-repairs\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building damaged after vehicle crashed into it nearly five months ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":60345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-60344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60344"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}