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Community Involvement is Encouraged for the IU Hospital Site Redevelopment

The City of Bloomington has held a Hospital Reuse Committee since 2015. Over the years this group has worked with the city on the redevelopment of the current IU Health Bloomington Hospital. This group is made up of about 30 community members who have been recently joined by the architecture and urban planning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, or SOM, …

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Daily Local News – August 1, 2018

MCCSC administrators looked to the community last night for input on whether to add metal detectors to their school safety strategy; The Urban Land Institute has just released a draft of their recommendations for the redevelopment of the IU Hospital site on Second Street. At the top of its list is housing; A contractor will pay $10,000 in fines, after a worker …

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City, Institute Consider ‘Affordable’ Housing at Hospital Site

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The Urban Land Institute released a draft of their recommendations for the redevelopment of the IU Health Bloomington Hospital site on Second Street. At the top of its list is housing. Bloomington’s housing market has the highest prices in the state. But it lacks workforce housing, and low-income rentals for seniors, young adults, and artists. A graphic, provided by the …

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Institute Recommends Housing at Downtown Hospital Site

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After IU Health announced its sale of the downtown Bloomington hospital for $6.5 million to the city of Bloomington, the city contracted the Urban Land Institute to put forward recommendations on what to do with the 24-acre downtown site. As City of Bloomington Communications Director Yael Ksander tells WFHB News Director Wes Martin, the Urban Land Institute is putting forward …

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Daily Local News – April 16, 2018

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An armed gunman was reported on IU’s campus yesterday afternoon; State Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) toured logging areas of Yellowwood State Forest last week, to evaluate the logging of the back country wilderness; A surveying and land-use contractor hired by the city of Bloomington to evaluate what to do with the IU Health downtown hospital has released its recommendations; Wain Martin, a …

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