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.

When the enormous Walmart on North 23rd Street in McAllen, Texas, decided to move to another location, it left a massive opportunity behind. At more than 124,000 square feet, the city opted to turn ...

From 12-packs of paper towels to The Count of Monte Cristo: A deserted Wal-Mart in McAllen, Texas, is stocking a new kind of item on its shelves. Minneapolis-based architects Meyer, Scherer & ...

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 ...

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What was once a place for buying has become a place for learning. The children's section of the McAllen Main Library -- built from a massive abandoned Wal-Mart constructed in 1980 -- is ringed by bins ...

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When the Wal-Mart in the border town McAllen, Texas, closed down, the town decided to convert the massive empty space into a 124,500-square-foot library, the largest single-story library in the nation ...