PARK HEIGHTS, Md — Officials broke ground Wednesday on a new Enoch Pratt Library branch in Park Heights, marking a significant investment in a community that has been without a library for more than 30 years.

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"We will no longer disinvest in this neighborhood," Mayor Brandon Scott said during the groundbreaking ceremony.

The new library branch represents the type of investment Baltimore City is making in the Park Heights community, according to Mayor Brandon Scott. The neighborhood hasn't had a library since 1991.

Scott and State Delegate Malcolm Ruff, both of whom grew up in the neighborhood, were among the officials present at the groundbreaking.

"We both were ver

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