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Community Action moves to new office
By Bob Holliday
bholliday@pantagraph.com
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BLOOMINGTON -- Mid Central Community Action, located for decades on East Grove Street, has moved to a new location that should be more convenient for clients and staff.

There will be more room for programming and parking at its new quarters at 1301 W. Washington St., said Executive Director John Burrill.

The agency bought the building, known to many as the Funk Seed Building, for $350,000, Burrill said.

“We needed more space to deliver our programs,” he said, mentioning domestic violence, energy assistance and housing development.

The agency opened at the new location this week and Burrill said clients seem to be finding the new location without problems. Signs at the old location direct clients to the new building.

The old location, Burrill said, was sold to an adjacent concrete plant.

The building has an additional 3,000 square feet for programming and quadruple the number of parking spaces.

“This should be our home for the foreseeable future,” he said.

The telephone number, (309) 829-0691, remains the same.

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yes, but.... wrote on Sep 1, 2007 8:13 AM:

" Now that this building has been purchased, where will Bloomington police's ERU unit, and the Country Sheriff's deputies go to learn how to surround houses with no suspects in them? Maybe they can train at the US Cellular arena now??? That isn't used for much. "

Great Deal For All wrote on Sep 1, 2007 5:51 AM:

" I am so happy that this building has been purchased and once again will be of use. This is a solid building and really pretty nice with a lot of parking. I hate to see a perfectly good building either be demolished or unoccupied while new buildings are erected, it just seems like such a waste. Hats off to Community Action for breathing new life into an existing building. "
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