Repair not demolish: Bloomington looks to add 1 to affordable housing inventory

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Repair not demolish: Bloomington looks to add 1 to affordable housing inventory

The city of Bloomington is now looking to give a house it owns on West 3rd Street a continued life as a house, instead of demolishing it as planned. On Tuesday, the city’s board of public works awarded a $61,561 contract with Rogers Remodeling to do repairs on the house at 2541 W. 3rd Street to get it back into livable condition. It’s a 3-bedroom, 1-bath house with 1,120 square feet, on a one-third-acre lot. The city wants to add the house to Bl…