No north option for convention center expansion: CIB won’t negotiate with Bloomington for land

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No north option for convention center expansion: CIB won’t negotiate with Bloomington for land

The Monroe County capital improvement board (CIB) will not be negotiating with the city of Bloomington on the acquisition of land north of the existing convention center for a planned expansion project. That was the point of an email message sent on Monday (May 13, 2024) to Bloomington corporation council Margie Rice to Jim Whitlatch, who is the CIB’s legal counsel. Here’s the key sentence from Monday’s email message: “This email is intended to …