Dave Askins

Off Gourley Pike, west of Miller-Showers Park on a 12.3-acre piece of land, sits the old Colonial Crest apartment complex, now called The Arch, with its 208 apartments and 406 bedrooms, spread across 15 separate two-story buildings. Based on apartment rental websites, residents there now pay

On Monday afternoon, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County’s board chair Meredith Rogers addressed a gathering of about 50 people for a ceremonial groundbreaking at Osage Place. It’s a 69-house project just east of RCA Community Park, which is getting built in two phases. At Monday’s

This week, Bloomington’s city council will again consider an ordinance proposed by the administration that would require occupancy affidavits for many rental properties in the city. At their Wednesday meeting, councilmembers could be hearing from some renters whose voices they haven’t heard before. That’s because on Sunday

A push for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 was again a main talking point at Friday’s weekly press conference of local leaders on pandemic response. Among the local sites for free vaccine distribution is Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall at Indiana University. The message for people to take

At a Tuesday press conference held on the back porch of the Bloomington Housing Authority’s community center on Summit Street, some new information was announced about support from the federal government for local housing programs. Bloomington’s mayor, John Hamilton, also announced that in July he’d be making

On Wednesday, Monroe County commissioners rejected a request for a rezone of 37 acres south of Bloomington for a housing project called Southern Meadows, a proposed development of 95 paired townhomes for a total of 190 housing units. In that configuration, a townhome sits on its own lot with its