ISU approves its half of land swap with Normal

Posted on July 24, 2015
Normal Fire Department Station 2
The Normal Fire Station #2 is one of four properties ISU will receive in a tentative land swap with the town of Normal. (WJBC file photo)

By Joe Ragusa

NORMAL – A land swap between Illinois State University and the town of Normal is halfway complete.

The ISU Board of Trustees signed off on its part of the deal Friday. University spokesman Eric Jome said the university is giving up its property at 608 S. Main.

“In exchange, the university will be receiving some other property adjacent to campus that will allow us to expand some existing parking areas that we have and then also kind of look ahead to some strategic development of the campus in the future,” Jome said.

The properties ISU is receiving include property at the intersection of Beaufort St. and School St., a property on Sudduth Rd., the lot where Normal Fire Station #2 currently sits at 604 N. Adelaide and an apartment building at 404 W. Locust.

The Normal Town Council will vote on its part of the deal Aug. 3. The lot its receiving at 608 S. Main will likely be turned into a new fire station Normal City Manager Mark Peterson said the town plans to build.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].

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