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Details Lacking On Downtown Hotel Proposal

Devyn Corp., Tarter Construction, Farnsworth Group

Bloomington's Mayor says without additional information, one of the two proposals for a downtown hotel is dead.

Developers David Bentley of Bloomington and Jeff Giebelhausen of Peoria have floated separate plans for a downtown hotel. During an appearance on GLT's Sound Ideas, Mayor Tari Renner says Bentley hasn't responded to consultant requests for more information about his plans to transform the Pantagraph into a boutique hotel. "You know, no information." Renner says the Chicago firm looking into the proposals lacks enough information about Bentley's project to vett it. The Giebelhausen proposal would turn the former Montgomery Ward property at Front and Center streets into a hotel site.

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