- I'm going to call this meeting to order. Welcome to the redevelopment commission meeting for the city
- of Bloomington for Monday, July 20, 2026. We will start the meeting with a roll call, please. Gordon
- and Robby present. C. Scambler, present. Sam Flinger, present. John West, present. Randy Cassidy, present.
- Deborah Meyerson, present. Staff present, please. Hannah Killian-Beasden, present. Christina Finley,
- hand department.
- Jimmy Caswell, president. Jeff McKim, city controller, president. Jane Coopersmith, economic and sustainable
- development. Hannah Dragovich, economic and sustainable development. Dana Kerr, legal. Hi, everybody.
- So the first item on our agenda is the minutes for, sorry, we're going to do the reports.
- We'll do that later, sorry. I'm just out of practice. We've been out of session for a little bit. We're
- gonna start with minutes for the executive session of June 15th, 2026, the regular meeting of also June
- 15th, and then the executive session from July 14th, 2026. If you have any questions or comments from
- commissioners, we can take these separately if needed. If not, I'll entertain a motion.
- Move approval of the minutes for the executive session of June 15th, the regular meeting of June 15th,
- and the executive session on July 14th. Second. We have a first and a second. All in favor say aye.
- Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda is the claims register from June 5th and
- July 2nd, 2026. Any questions or comments from commissioners on either of these claims registers? Yeah,
- I've got a question.
- June 5th claim, page two, claim number 321, HFI bill. I just wonder what property that pertains to.
- Wait, I'm sorry, tell me again where that is. Page, it's at the, June 5th. The replacement of the controller
- for the chemical treatment systems. Oh, yeah, I can answer that. That's Showers West, and yeah,
- It showers west and it's basically a system that makes sure that the fluid going to the HVAC doesn't
- freeze. Any other questions from commissioners on either of these clean registers? If not, I will ask
- for a motion. You're doing both at the same time. Well, again, they can be separated upon request. I've
- combined them unless there's a request to separate them.
- I'm just going to ask a question on the second. On July 2nd, page four, pay number 6M14. Kent, I just
- need to be, we have a partnership agreement with Dimension Bill. Can you just review that real quickly?
- Sorry, what's the question? How does our partnership agreement work? Well, it's a claim for hundreds.
- That's a portion of our annual payment to them for the partnership agreement and for that they manage
- basically the facilities and portions of all of our trans-district activities. Is that a rollover agreement
- or do we renew it every year? It's multi-year and it will take me a second but I can look up when the
- We renewed it in 2024, I believe. And I think it goes into 2028. All right. That was good. Thank you.
- Any other questions on either of these claims registered from commissioners? If not, I'll ask for a
- motion. I'll make the motion to approve as noted.
- Got a first and a second, all in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Next item of the agenda
- is the payroll registers for June 12th, June 26th, and July 10th, 2026. Any questions or comments from
- commissioners on any of these? Again, we'll take these collectively unless requested to separate them.
- I move for approval for all three. Second. Got a first and a second, all in favor say aye. Aye.
- Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously.
- We'll go on to reports. I believe the director's report. No formal director's report. I do want to call
- attention to a letter that we received from five council members related to the south parcels and potential
- trade. I also do want to call attention that the capital improvement board did vote last week to move
- forward on the parcels that the RDC actually transferred to the CIB, which were formerly parking lots.
- for the host hotel. So I do have a question related to that. We did perform an appraisal on those parcels,
- totaling $3.15 million. And I think that was actually really, I think we were missing one of those parcels
- because we thought it was previously owned by Public Works. So we only did the appraisal on some of
- those parcels, not realizing that we actually did own that fourth parcel.
- So would it be OK with you guys? Would you have any objections for me to share that appraisal with the
- CIB? Any objections? No? OK. We've already transferred the parcel. We've already transferred it, but
- they may find that beneficial in utilizing those appraisals. Make sure they just know that it's on three
- of the four. Yes, I certainly will.
- Moving forward, happy to answer any questions. And Isabel, did you want to say anything about the letter
- that was sent from the Common Council? Moving on. Legal report. I have nothing to report, but I'm here
- for questions if you have. Thank you. We have a judge's report. So because of some
- staff leave we do not have the the formal treasure or the formal rdc project status report we'll have
- that by the next meeting but i did kind of want to call out just talk about the the fund balances a
- bit just because we have now received our spring settlement i think i talked a little bit more detail
- about that a couple of weeks ago but i just wanted to let everybody know what the
- what the fund balances are right now. In the RDC fund, that's the 25-19 fund, we're at $1,475,935,
- so $1.47 million. For the consolidated TIF, we are now up to $39.8 million. That's an increase from
- the last report of $27 million after the spring settlement. We, the pro-TIF,
- We've got 833,000. And the meridium tiff, the spider tiff, still has a fund balance of zero. And that's,
- I also wanted to mention that I've been working with the assessor's office and the auditor's office
- to try to sort out what's going on with that. I will just say the technical term is it's a mess. And
- it'll take us probably, and apparently this is a mess that goes back years.
- I managed to contact the former controller, and she was quite helpful in helping me understand how far
- they got. But at some point, we need to see some of the increments show up in that spider tiff, and
- it's not yet. That's still zero. So expect more soon, but we don't have anything yet.
- Quick question just to verify, you say on the PROW TIF there was $838,000? $833,000. Which I said the
- PROW TIF. It is the PROW TIF. I wanted to make sure. $833,000. And that has to be dealt with in the
- next year. No, it just won't continue to grow. It won't continue to grow. Thank you. And then
- the consolidated TIF, that's where the funds from the
- Trades District went? Yes, ultimately. Okay, that's what I wanted to verify. It wasn't in the 2519 account.
- Correct. Okay, thank you. Okay, any other questions? Thank you for that report. Do we have a business
- development update? Yeah, just a couple updates. One, I wanted to let commissioners know that we submitted
- our application for a designation for 2.0 Opportunity Zones and
- we applied for the census tracts that include Hopewell East, Hopewell East, West and South. So we're
- hopeful that that will be approved and we would find out about that in October. That would be approved
- by the governor's office and then recommended to the feds. And then the second thing I wanted to mention
- is that the city is
- is really excited to be partnering again with the consortium group on a ready arts and culture grant
- that we received in the amount of $3 million that will foster more development of an arts campus in
- the trades district and will have some of that activity centered on the showers admin building which
- was an original RDC redevelopment project way back when. So excited to see that continue to evolve and support
- growth in the creative economy in the trades district. So essentially three million dollars will be
- spent for programming for. It's pretty it's multifaceted probably more than I can summarize here but
- it's a regional play so it'll help us invite regional artists into Bloomington and will facilitate different
- disciplines and there are multiple sites across the community that are supported and then there's also
- a resource hub that will be online just
- for artists across the uplands region. Okay, so it's not just specifically here. Not just specifically
- here, but key part of it is housed in the trade district. Okay, and just for everybody, what is the
- REDI exactly? I cannot recite the acronym to you, but it's a state, yeah, it's a state economic development
- transformative grant thinking opportunity that grew out of the pandemic
- been really successful in transforming placemaking and quality of place across the state. And so it's
- continued. Hopewell received a REDI grant for Jackson Street. There was another REDI grant received
- in an earlier version, or REDI 2.0 in, sorry, REDI 1.0 for sewer extension, kind of adjacent to Novo
- Nordisk. Summit has, Summit District has received a REDI grant, again, for infrastructure, $4 million.
- And then this is kind of the newest, Arts and Culture was like another third round of grant making,
- supported by Lilly. And the city of Bloomington has put those in, submitted, and been successful in
- this. Yes, but this ready, this Arts and Culture grant, IU is the lead, so the city's really in a supportive
- partner role, but not a lead role. Which is nice because we don't have to do all that administration.
- During the 2.0 opportunity zones, what are the implications of that? That makes this grant eligible,
- I assume? Yes. So that whole program exists to attract private sector development into highly distressed
- census tracts. And so the hope would be, well, and what it does is for those private investments, if
- they set up what's called a qualified opportunity fund and they invest in those pre-approved, highly
- distressed census tracts, then they get a protection
- tenure protection on capital gains. And so the idea is that those tracks hope well, and if there were
- three total that we applied for, if they get approved, then they'll kind of be magnets for private sector
- development. And they'll make it really easier for us to market those projects and parcels. Thank you.
- Thank you.
- OK. Well, thank you for those reports. We'll go on to new business. We have the bid opening for College
- Square. Thank you. I have not opened any of these yet, so I'm going to unlock this folder. And I will
- read out the names of who has proposed and see if I can find a brief summary in the order in which that
- they were received. Let the record show at 5, 16 PM. I am opening the first.
- It is a proposal from Concord Hospitality, TWG Development, Ratio Design, and Shield Sexton. Bear with
- me. Let me see if I can find a brief summary. Our proposal recognizes the opportunity for both a hotel
- that meets the functional needs outlined in the offering sheet
- including approximately 160 rooms, full service amenities, and support for convention center activity,
- and a complementary mixed-use residential component that supports downtown vitality, integrates housing,
- including replacement of significantly affordable below market rate units, and activates the district
- beyond event-driven demand. So what that means, we will need to do a deep dive into what these actually say.
- And then the other offer received, bear with me, it's opening, is from Dora Hospitality and the Louder
- Bag Group. They're submitting the proposal for the redevelopment of College Square.
- The proposal delivers two complimentary projects on a single site, a 135-room boutique upscale hotel
- on a southern portion of the project site along 3rd Street, and an approximately 100-unit market-rate
- apartment community on the northern portion along 4th Street. Connecting them is a landscaped promenade
- running through the interior of the block, a shared gathering space that activates the heart of the
- site and draws pedestrians from College Avenue to the beeline.
- So again, we haven't analyzed these. I don't have any other details. Those are the summaries. We'll
- have to talk about what's going on. I'm getting messages that the audio is not working. And I wonder
- if we might need to just check the audio. And then I don't know if we should reread those responses.
- Yeah, I'd kind of like to hear the list of the proposers again.
- Is it working? Is the audio working now? Who is saying this? Eric Ust was online and... Can you check
- the chat, please? Or check the audio inputs.
- All the mics are on. Who has the meeting? Tammy has it right now. So I would just check the audio, the
- mic input, within Zoom. And then I would check the system settings. Let me see that. And if we need
- to restart the hour, we can. Enough. How do you come through the volume that's just very low? OK, that's
- helpful. We turn the volume up.
- All right, can you tell us, is that better? Is that better? Someone says I can hear fine. Yeah. Dr.
- Winston said she could hear, but it was a little fuzzy, but she's giving us a thumbs up now. Thank you.
- All right. 516, I think it was. I opened the first.
- offer that was opened in the order that they were received. I will go back to that again. So the first
- offer received was from Concord Hospitality TWG Ratio Design and Shield Sexton. And it looks like it's
- a two part strategy.
- proposal recognizes the opportunity for both a hotel meets the functional needs outlined in the offering
- sheet, including approximately 160 rooms, full service amenities and support for the convention center
- activity, and a complimentary mixed use residential component that supports downtown vitality. And it
- includes the replacement of significantly affordable below market rate units, and activates the district
- beyond event during demand.
- Other offer that was received is from Dora Hospitality and the Ladderback Group. And it delivers two
- complimentary projects on a single site, a 135-room boutique upscale hotel on the southern portion of
- the project site along 3rd Street,
- and an approximately 100-unit market-rate apartment community on the northern portion along 4th Street.
- Connecting them is a landscaped promenade running through the interior of the block, a shared gathering
- space that activates the heart of the site and draws pedestrians through College Avenue to the Beeline
- Trail. So again, we will have to do a deep dive as to what's in all of these offerings. I haven't looked
- at it yet, and we'll have to report back.
- Thank you. Next item in the agenda is Resolution 2646, which is the approval of an undulate artwork
- concrete foundation construction agreement with the NB Paving LLC. Who would like to speak to that?
- I can. So undulate art is the art that's been approved for Hopewell Commons and Hopewell East. Within
- that contract that was approved in Resolution 2467, it says that
- The city will take responsibility for site preparation. So we did a bid through our OpenGov procurement
- system. For 30 days, the dates are escaping me right now, but we received three bids. The lowest responsive
- and responsible bidder is EMB Paving. Their quote is for $48,295. Like I said, this would
- laid concrete foundations in order for the artist to install the actual art sculpture onto them. As
- a part of that bidding process, we made it very clear that the site is sensitive with the brick pavers
- and all of that. And so we're being really specific about where they can access it and how to go about
- accessing it. So we're very protective of the site as I'm sure you all are as well.
- That's it. We're asking for that funding so we can get this art piece installed. Any questions or comments
- from commissioners on resolution 2646? Have we done a, we're going to do a site evaluation of the existing
- site prior to thing on this contract because the whole site was done by milestone previously. And this
- was bringing another contractor in to make sure, as you said, protection of the site. Yes.
- Once it's been awarded, we will do a site walk with the contractor as well as engineering department
- and parks department have been heavily involved and are aware of all of those staff work that Miles
- did. They have that historical knowledge. As you said, we want to make sure that we don't tear up anything
- that we've already done. Exactly. All right, thank you.
- Any other questions or comments from commissioners? If not, we'll put it up for public comment for resolution
- 2646. Seeing anything in person or online, I will open it for a motion for this resolution. I'll move
- approval of resolution 2646. Second. We've got a first and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye.
- Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Thank you. Do we have a time frame for this?
- I am pushing before the end of the year for the full install. Sorry, just to be clear. And this is all
- just clarification. This is all part of our. Thank you. OK, the next item on our agenda is resolution
- 2647, which is the acknowledgement of estimated costs of public infrastructure improvement design for
- Sudbury Drive and South Adams Street within the summit district planning development. Who would like
- to speak to that?
- happy to discuss this one. This is just an acknowledgement. You have already approved a memorandum of
- understanding and agreement with the Sudbury group as far as agreeing to pay for the design of public
- infrastructure for Sudbury Drive and Adams Street that lies within the Sudbury PUD.
- Our engineering folks have worked very diligently going through step by step with Stantec, who is the
- engineering folks that Sudbury is using to be able to make sure that all of the design work that would
- be paid for from funds by the RDC is only for
- those things that are public infrastructure and necessary for the installation of public infrastructure.
- So they've done a really good job of keeping that separate from what might be private. I know that was
- a concern of the RDC to keep that separate. Again, engineering has been going through this with a fine-tooth comb.
- But I felt for record keeping that it would be, and for your knowledge, of course, that it would be
- nice to have an acknowledgement that the estimated project cost for that design work is $1,188,000.
- And they are completing their estimate for the private design.
- And then they'll be entering into a contract to be able to move forward with beginning that design.
- So again, hats off to the engineering department who worked really diligently to make sure that they
- separated out everything to make sure that public dollars were only being used with what was absolutely
- necessary for public
- designed for public infrastructure. So again, this is just an acknowledgement. And even the attachment
- shows the breakout of the different classifications of the different areas. And you can see some of
- the detail that they went into for that. So we just want for you to acknowledge that this is the amount that they
- they have estimated, and that it's part of your record. OK, thank you. Well, I'd like to ask a question.
- Oh, yeah, I'm going to open this question for you. Did you or did I? I am. It's open for questions.
- This, I'm going to ask Dana, but Randy, you may want to weigh in on this. I'm not a huge fan of a time
- material contract. Is this typical for this type of work? My understanding from.
- Our focus on engineering is yes that it is because there are so many unknowns this early on to get an
- exact amount that this is and not to exceed amount at this time. And so they would not be able to go
- further without coming back to the table. At the end of the day it will be the five million rolling.
- then not to exceed for all of the things that the RDC is looking at in that area, yes. But for the design
- of these two roadways, this is what the RDC would be looking at. And this is for the engineering for
- all of the public structure for Adams Street and Sudbury Drive. Correct, sir. Which connects the north-south
- thoroughfare and then also creates an east-west
- Yes, east-west connector between that and Wimmer Road or when they may be there. Yeah, at a future date.
- And with that, given the time frame they're looking at, we're talking approximately a year. Yeah. OK.
- Yeah. Request professional services is what this really comes down to. And then this will allow to get
- an idea of what construction costs would be for that without
- doing this, we would have no idea. Essentially, once this is done, we have a design for what is going
- to be built for the public infrastructure in order to help construct hundreds of thousands of homes.
- Yes, this is definitely public infrastructure, making connections that need to be made for North-South
- thoroughfares. The other parts of this is
- is just one part. The other parts in that area include looking at Vanguard connecting from Tap Road
- up to Weimar in a straight line. It also includes offsite developments, looking at intersections to
- improving intersections. So this will greatly improve the connectivity of that whole area that is very
- underserved with roadways at this point. OK. Any other questions or comments from the commissioners
- that's not open for public comment? Nothing in line or in person? I'll entertain a motion for resolution
- 2647. I would like to make a comment prior to something.
- I happen to be an adjoining property owner to this, so I'm going to abstain from voting because this
- does impact a property, or could it potentially impact a property that I do own. It will or it won't.
- Thank you for that clarification. OK, so with that one abstention, we have any motion for resolution
- 2647. Move approval of resolution 2647. Second.
- A first and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. We've got any opposed? We've got four in favor and
- one abstention. And the motion passes. That's the end of our new business on our agenda. Is there any
- other items to bring before we adjourn? Not at this time. We're going to take the openings under advisement.
- Yeah, I was tricked by the book, took them in as they were received, didn't look at them, kept them
- in a locked folder until we just opened them this evening. So I don't know what's in there. Obviously,
- with any offer, it's not just about purchase price. A lot of times, there can be other details that
- can offset. So we're going to do a deep dive as to what each offer contains and try to come up with
- your next steps.
- Okay, well with that I'll take a motion to adjourn. The RDC doesn't take public comment for items not
- on our agenda. That's our policy. There are not yet been even considered by the RDC, much less by the public.
- will lean towards legal on how to proceed. We have to determine what we have first before we can even
- have anything to talk about yet. But we'll look into them, and then we will present publicly what's
- involved in those offers. I have a simple question. Does each of those projects have a financial number
- attached to it? I didn't even go that far.
- I mean, but do they? I didn't see that on the first two pages that I glanced at, so I have no idea what
- they said. We hear the CIB offers those money attached to them, and I wondered if each of these offers
- had a dollar fee. It wasn't in the project summary at the top, which is, that's the first. The RDC's
- opening of proposals is not exactly the same as how CIB does it. Will your deep dive be done before
- they bulldoze Seminary Point?
- What is the? Is there a timeline associated with that? Yes. Would you like to know what it is? I'm happy
- to stick around after the meeting and talk to whoever would like to talk. OK, so the meeting is now
- adjourned. If there are other comments that people would like to make to individuals, they may do so
- after the adjournment of the meeting. Meeting is adjourned.