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The City of Bloomington Common Council is meeting this evening to vote on the proposal to demolish and rebuild the Fourth Street Garage.
City administrators are asking the council to approve issuing an $18.5 million bond for a new garage, to replace the the current one.
The original plan was to repair the downtown parking garage, at a cost of $1.1 million. That proposal would reportedly extend the life of the garage by five years, according to CE Solutions, a Carmel-based structural engineering firm, which inspected the garage last May.
A second visit to the site to update the report in February, reportedly showed advanced deterioration of the Fourth Street garage putting the cost of repairs at $1.4 million, a $300,000 increase.
City administrators are asking the council to reconsider demolishing the Fourth Street parking garage, and building a new one in its place.
The Bloomington City Council meets to vote on the proposal to rebuild the garage tonight at city hall at 6:30 p.m.
