BLOOMINGTON The new Bloomington Convention Center is quickly rising, but a planned hotel for the expansion has yet to break ground. The city is now considering heavy financial incentives to ensure the hotel gets built.

The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission discussed a resolution concerning the potential hotel at the former College Square business park at 3rd Street and College Avenue Monday. The resolution proclaimed, in part, that: "the real estate at College Square necessary for the host hotel would be made available, in some form, to the host hotel project at no or nominal costs to the project."

"We have explored every option possible, and we're hitting dead ends," said Bloomington Redevelopment Commission executive director Anna Killion-Hanson during Monday's meeting. "Constructio

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