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There’s a new financing tool available in McLean County that could help nibble away at the size of the housing shortage in Bloomington Normal. It's called the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy Program or C-PACE.
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Government efforts to address the Bloomington-Normal housing shortage are a work in progress. Every little effort to make it more attractive to develop helps.
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Former Normal Mayor Dick Godfrey has died. As mayor from 1976 to 1985, Godfrey helped the Town of Normal transition from a small college town into an economically diverse community. He was also mayor during the town's infamous firefighters strike.
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Plans for a new subdivision with up to 58 single-family townhomes north of Fox Creek Road in southwest Bloomington are moving forward.
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A Town of Normal fixture is retiring after four decades in municipal government and the town is re-aligning leadership in the wake of that. Inspections Director Greg Troemel oversaw $3 billion in commercial and residential growth.
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Acuity Optical Laboratories, which operates under the name Identity Optical, at 2221 W. College Ave., has notified the state the company plans eliminate 99 jobs starting Dec. 20.
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Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe says Illinois State University's future presence on Bloomington's east side may spark development of Country Financial’s remaining 26 vacant acres at GE and Hershey roads.
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The city manager of Bloomington says after more than a decade of inaction by the owners of the vacant Front N Center building downtown, there are signs of movement.
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The city manager of Bloomington said it's time to raise the public profile of the issue of Eastland Mall improvement.
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The chief economist for PNC Bank said relief is coming to the stalled housing construction sector in Central Illinois and wage growth will start to make up for lost buying power caused by inflation.