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Bloomington OKs $770K contract with Compass for buildout of Trades District parking garage for ESnet

B Square file photo. View of Trades District parking garage from looking southeast from Rogers Street.
B Square file photo. View of the interior of the commercial space at the Trades District parking garage.

Due to get started in the third week of September is the construction work to build out 4,059 square feet of office space for Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  on the ground floor of the Trades District parking garage.

The space fronts on Rogers Street south of 10th Street.

Winning the bid for the work, which was based on an RFP (request for proposals) issued by Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC), was Compass Commercial Construction Group, out of Indianapolis.

The RDC approved the agreement with Compass at its regular meeting earlier this week, on Monday.

Compass is partnering with DELV Design for the design work, which is supposed to get started as soon as the week beginning July 8, based on the timeline included in the response from Compass. Continue reading “Bloomington OKs $770K contract with Compass for buildout of Trades District parking garage for ESnet” →

U.S. Dept. of Energy tied to lease OK’d by Bloomington for parking garage office space

B Square file photo. View of the interior of the commercial space at the Trades District parking garage.
From left: Sue Sgambelluri, Jon-Paul Herron, and John Fernandez. (May 20, 2024)
B Square file photo. View of Trades District parking garage from looking southeast from Rogers Street.

A lease agreement is finally in place for the ground floor commercial space that was constructed as a part of Bloomington’s Trades District parking garage project, which was completed in 2021.

At its regular Monday meeting, Bloomington’s redevelopment commission approved the terms of a lease  that will allow Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  to set up an office in the space, which covers 4,059 square feet.

ESnet describes itself as providing high-bandwidth, reliable connections that link scientists at national laboratories, universities, and other research institutions, to make it possible for them to collaborate on scientific challenges like climate science among others.

The actual tenant for the lease is the regents of the University of California. That’s because the steward of ESnet is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley—it’s funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Continue reading “U.S. Dept. of Energy tied to lease OK’d by Bloomington for parking garage office space” →