The District of Columbia will demolish four neighborhood libraries by the end of July as part of a plan to build new ones.

Contractors Goel Services and Horton & Barber Construction will receive more than $1 million to demolish the libraries.

The libraries slated for destruction include two in Northwest, the Tenley–Friendship Neighborhood Library and the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library. The other two libraries scheduled to be knocked down are the Anacostia Neighborhood Library and the Benning Neighborhood Library.

The District closed the libraries in 2004 with promises to refit them. But it now plans to build new libraries that create more “usable space,” libraries spokeswoman Monica Lewis said.