Bloomington Housing Priorities-What Nobody Mentions

By: Diane Benjamin One item the Bloomington Council passed Monday night was setting priorities for local housing. Go to 1:54:50 to see the slide recapping the plan. It doesn’t include interest rate buydowns. City Manager Jeff Jurgens introduced the resolution, unfortunately the slides with statistics he presented are not on video. Jurgens stated Illinois is […]

Bloomington Council tonight

By: Diane Benjamin Entire agenda: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/cityblm/f7169b76-5bbe-11ee-ae13-0050569183fa-d854eb82-3702-4140-9de6-ac3a8e3f379d-1721418738.pdf The Council will authorize spending $6,841,961.14 to resurface the below: . The regular agenda is filled with downtown TIF actions. I wonder if anybody will mention how much the City will throw in? The Front and Center building and People’s Bank aren’t going to demolish themselves and the property […]