By: Diane Benjamin In 2016 Bloomington bought a property at 807 North Main street: . Bloomington bought this property to control what was built there. Bloomington still owns it. Coldwell Banker couldn’t sell at after Bloomington hired them. https://blnnews.com/2020/07/02/bloomington-5-years-and-no-news/ A link in that story explains why nobody bought it. The City wanted to control what […]
By: Diane Benjamin h/t a reader Follow-up to this story: https://blnnews.com/2020/07/02/bloomington-5-years-and-no-news/ According to the reader: I was working around 807 N Main that you had in an article yesterday. There is no for sale sign on the property. The parking lot in the rear is being used for parking the vacuum trucks for the sewer […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bloomington bought this property almost 5 years ago just to control who built on it: The address is 807 N Main, the site of the old Mennonite hospital. In May of 2019 the Council voted to list it for sale with Coldwell Banker after they tried to sell it on a national […]
By: Diane Benjamin Mayor Renner said over and over and over last night that Bloomington is not raising your taxes. Here is Tari’s tax bill he paid in 2016: http://mcleanil.devnetwedge.com/view/RE/21-12-428-001/2015 Looks like in increase to me Tari! Of course, that increase is due to your house being assessed for more money. Government doesn’t have to […]
By: Diane Benjamin From Bills and Payroll for approval Monday night: 11-14-2016-bills There are other tiny payments I didn’t include. Below are the bills just since the last Council meeting – total $85,516.23 Other spending: Finally paid for 807 N Main, the purpose of the purchase is still a secret. Of course they have a […]
