Downtown Bloomington, IL
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Downtown Bloomington is the cultural center of the City of Bloomington, a growing and vibrant county seat community in the heart of Central Illinois. In addition to being a work and play destination, Downtown is increasingly a place called home for millennials and empty nesters in our many recently renovated loft apartments throughout Downtown.
With major venues including the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, Grossinger Motors Arena, and The Castle Theatre, and more than twenty art studios and galleries, Downtown Bloomington is the region’s arts and entertainment destination!
Downtown’s many historic buildings create a charming and easily walkable urban environment while offering numerous opportunities for new businesses to join our successful mix of existing specialty retail, dining, and professional service offerings.
Downtown Commercial Real Estate
Looking for a space to buy or lease in Downtown for your business? Check out what is available through local brokerages and property management companies! A list of these organizations can be found here.
Downtown Quick Facts
- Adjacent to the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University (1,600 + students) which is recognized as one of the nation’s premiere private residential liberal arts universities.
- One mile south of Carle BroMenn Medical Center, a 221 bed hospital with 1,305 employees, a part of Advocate Aurora Health, the 10th largest not-for-profit integrated health system in the United States.
- One and a half miles from Illinois State University with its nearly 21,000 students and over a 3,250 employees who combined contribute more than $833 millions to the local economy
- Offers more than 140,000 square feet of ground floor retail space available at reasonable rates.
- Bounded by U.S. Routes 51 and 150, with combined average daily traffic of more than 37,000 vehicles
- Offers over 1500 public parking spaces on-street, in surface parking lots and in public parking garages.
- Hosts the headquarter offices for multiple major employers including:
- McLean County Government
- District 87 Schools
- City of Bloomington
- Illinois Wesleyan University
- Heritage Operations Group
- Keplr Vision