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$30K awarded for Bloomington neighborhood improvement projects

From the Rockport Hills application.
From Park Ridge East’s grant application.
From the Woodlands-Winding Brook HOA grant application.
From the Prospect Hill application.
Bloomington’s redevelopment commission from left: John West, Deb Hutton, Deborah Myerson, and from HAND, Angela Van Rooy. (April 22, 2024)
Bloomington redevelopment commission member John West. (April 22, 2024)

At its regular Monday meeting, Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) approved a total of $30,000 worth of neighborhood improvement grants to help fund four different neighborhood projects.

Here’s the breakdown of projects awarded funding, sorted from largest to smallest.

2024 Neighborhood Improvement Grant Awards
Neighborhood Project Amount Awarded
Prospect Hill Neighborhood Association to hire restoration professionals to repair Rose Hill Cemetery headstones and monuments too difficult/fragile/large for volunteers to handle. $12,750.00
Park Ridge East Neighborhood Association to refurbish their two neighborhood entrance signs and associated landscaping. Their proposal included repairing limestone pillars and lighting. $8,500.00
Woodlands-Winding Brook HOA for the second phase of a project to convert an inoperable retention pond into a bioretention area, to include stormwater mitigation features, native plantings, and community gathering spaces. $7,400.00
Rockport Hills Neighbors to refurbish their neighborhood entrance sign and install native landscaping. $1,350.00
Grand Total $30,000.00

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Bloomington mayor calls Hopewell groundbreaking a “once-in-a-century opportunity to create a new neighborhood in the heart of our beloved city”

Hopewell West Primary Plat
Hopewell West Primary Plat

On Friday afternoon, a day with partly cloudy skies and a temperature around 80 degrees, about 60 local leaders gathered at the now empty grassy lot on the south side of 2nd Street, between Rogers Street and The B-Line Trail.

They were assembled to mark the groundbreaking for the Hopewell neighborhood, which will be constructed at the site of the former IU Health hospital, where the health care provider operated its facility until December 2021.

Delivering remarks on Friday were Bloomington mayor John Hamilton, followed by Cindy Kinnarney, who is president of Bloomington’s redevelopment commission, and by Mick Renneisen, who is president of the board for the nonprofit called City of Bloomington Capital Improvements, Inc.

Hamilton led off his remarks by saying, “We are here to break ground on this once-in-a-century opportunity to create a new neighborhood in the heart of our beloved city.” Continue reading “Bloomington mayor calls Hopewell groundbreaking a “once-in-a-century opportunity to create a new neighborhood in the heart of our beloved city”” →