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Dave Askins

Dave Askins

Bloomington, Indiana

Dave Askins is editor and publisher of The B Square Bulletin. A Hoosier native with a background in math and linguistics, he previously co-founded the Ann Arbor Chronicle with his wife, Mary Morgan.

$9.25M expansion of municipal footprint in Bloomington city hall building gets initial OK

$9.25M expansion of municipal footprint in Bloomington city hall building gets initial OK

Last Friday, the city of Bloomington announced that its $9.25 million offer to purchase the western part of the former Showers furniture building, had been accepted by CFC Properties. City hall occupies the eastern part of the building. Friday’s announcement was followed on Monday by an initial approval

Column: Independent of politics, drawing new city council districts for Bloomington is not easy as pie

Column: Independent of politics, drawing new city council districts for Bloomington is not easy as pie

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” That’s a famous quote from the late Carl Sagan, an astronomer who popularized scientific thought on topics like the place of the human species in the universe. It is somewhat surprising that of

$9.25M real estate deal pending, could put HQs for Bloomington police, fire in same building as city hall

$9.25M real estate deal pending, could put HQs for Bloomington police, fire in same building as city hall

In a Friday mid-morning news release, the city of Bloomington has announced that it made a $9.25 million offer to purchase the 64,000-square-foot portion of the Showers building that is currently owned by CFC Properties. CFC has accepted the offer, according to the release. CFC Properties and the

$500 “goodwill gesture” goes to Johnson’s Creamery smokestack owner from Bloomington historic group

$500 “goodwill gesture” goes to Johnson’s Creamery smokestack owner from Bloomington historic group

On Thursday, Peerless Development received a $500 grant award from Bloomington’s historic preservation commission (HPC)—in connection with an engineering study that found the Johnson’s Creamery smokestack to be structurally unsound. Peerless owns the historic smokestack, along with the creamery building, which is located off 7th Street on

Bloomington’s redistricting commission finally meets for first time

Bloomington’s redistricting commission finally meets for first time

On Monday, Bloomington’s five-member redistricting commission met for the first time, about 18 months after it was supposed to be established. Key takeaways from Monday’s gathering included the setting of the next two meeting dates: July 25 (7:30 p.m.) and Aug. 9 (9:30 a.m.

Parking notebook: 4th Street parking garage has unused capacity, based on data halfway into 2022

Parking notebook: 4th Street parking garage has unused capacity, based on data halfway into 2022

The new public parking garage at 4th and Walnut streets, which opened in late August of 2021, has a lot of unused capacity. That’s based on entry/exit and occupancy data for the first half of 2022, which was provided to The B Square by the city of Bloomington

Peoples State Bank headquarters on north side of Bloomington gets OK from plan commission

Peoples State Bank headquarters on north side of Bloomington gets OK from plan commission

The great blue herons that take wing out of Miller-Showers Park after an afternoon of fishing, and then head to other hunting grounds, swooping out over the intersection of 17th Street and College Avenue, will soon have a literal bird’s eye view of the new corporate headquarters for Peoples