An image of the library on fire in 2007. Photo courtesy DCPL.

This morning, D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan announced that the city had come to a $6 million settlement with contractors who were renovating the Georgetown Public Library when a fire crippled the building on April 30, 2007.

The two contractors involved in the case — general contractor Dynamic Corp. and subcontractor Two Brothers Contracting, Inc. — “agreed to the settlement to avoid the costs and uncertainty of pursuing civil litigation further, and to allow the parties to put this incident from nearly five years ago behind them,” according to a statement from the OAG. The money, which will go into the city’s general fund, was called “a substantial restitution for District of Columbia citizens after this unfortunate destruction of valuable historic public property” by Nathan.

After undergoing renovations to repair a collapsed second-floor ceiling and water damage, the library reopened to the public last October.