As soon as this year’s construction season, the old Monroe Oil building, just south of the Seminary Square Kroger where The B-Line Trail crosses 1st Street, could see work start, to make it into a restaurant and banquet facility.

That’s the timing that owner Rudy Fields told The B Square he is hoping for.

Fields said he wants the adaptive reuse of the building to become a part of the fabric of Bloomington, the same way Nick’s on Kirkwood Avenue is.  He said, “I want my grandkids walking down that trail and going, ‘Yeah, Pop did that.’”

Fields was speaking immediately following Monday’s regular meeting of Bloomington’s nine-member plan commission, which granted unanimous approval of the project’s site plan. The idea is for the not-yet-identified tenant to create a 14,170 square foot restaurant and meeting, banquet or event facility. Continue reading “OK’d by Bloomington: Owner plan for Monroe Oil building rehab, “something that will just rock”” →