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man and two women. N. Kinser Pike The minivan then struck a sedan, which struck a Jeep Wrangler, which then struck a red Mini Three people were killed Cooper, pushing the vehicle into a ditch about Saturday in a crash 50 feet from the scene of the accident. The front involving a bus and other windshield of the Miller bus was damaged, while vehicles on Bayles Road GriffyGriffy ALEX MCINTYRE | HERALD-TIMES the minivan was completely crumpled. and N. Business Ind. 37. LaLakeke A Saturday afternoon crash involving a bus and several other vehicles on North Business Ind. 37 The first call came in to the dispatch center at left at least three people dead. SEE CRASH | PAGE A5 H-T GRAPHIC

North grad to run for GAPS IN THE FOOD CHAIN governor of Illinois Former math prodigy changed his trajectory to politics 10 years ago By Michael Reschke 812-331-4370 | [email protected]

Andy Strawn always expected Daniel Biss to do something with math. The two met nearly 30 years ago when Biss was a student in Strawn’s calculus class at Bloomington JEREMY HOGAN | HERALD-TIMES High School North. Biss was Signs in the window of the Marsh on North Kinser Pike in Bloomington advertise sales in advance of its closing earlier this month. In in seventh grade. the 1990s, Bloomington offi cials hoped that establishing Marsh stores in each quadrant of the city would help prevent “food deserts” and guaran- “He was ex- tee access to groceries for most of the city’s residents. Now, all the Marsh stores in town have closed. tremely bright and truly gifted,” Store location strategy Strawn said. City planners aimed to ensure access A former Bloomington senior planner Bill Land worked closely “Not just good, BISS with Marsh in the 1990s to determine to food in all parts of town, but Marsh but gifted.” where Marsh might locate to best serve the public. More It was no sur- closures leave shoppers fewer options prise when Biss 1825 N. Kinser Pike By Kurt Christian online went on to grad- The plan (Now closed) 812-331-4350 | [email protected] Read uate from Har- Land said the strategy about vard, earn a Ph.D. involved a “golden ratio” Dwindling from four locations to none, the loss of - in mathematics the unusual between neighborhoods ington’s former has exposed the fragile from the Mas- fundraising vid- and mechanisms that ensure the city’s food security. sachusetts Insti- eos Daniel Biss square footage. The last two Marsh stores were on the north and east made early in his tute of Technol- sides of Bloomington. Closure of the northside store earlier political career ogy and joined 123 S. Kingston Dr. this month in particular would have left that quadrant of the with his friend, the faculty at (Now closed) city without a full-service grocery. novelist John the Univer- That uncertainty was cleared up last week when Green, in a 2007 sity of . About Co. announced it will open Bloomington’s fifth Kroger at the H-T article linked What came next, 4.3 miles former Marsh store. Topvalco Inc., a subsidiary of the Kroger to this story at however, didn’t Co. that bought both Bloomington Marsh properties in June, HeraldTimes exactly fit his 3600 W. 3rd St. is still conducting an economic review of the eastside store. About Online.com. academic career (Currently Fresh Thyme) News of the future northside Kroger fills a gap in a city trajectory. 3 miles plan regarding grocery store locations designed more than In 2007, he announced plans to 20 years ago. run for the Illinois Legislature. He Stores closed “You have to be very careful you don’t set the ball rolling in lost but ran again and won, serving The Kinser Pike and the wrong direction,” said Bill Land, who was Bloomington’s 2424 S. Walnut St. in the Illinois House in 2011 and Kingston Drive Marsh senior long-range planner from November 1989 to May 1994, 2012 and then the Illinois Senate (Currently Lucky’s) stores closed this month. in an interview earlier this month. beginning in 2013. SOURCE: BILL LAND, FORMER BLOOMINGTON SENIOR PLANNER H-T GRAPHIC SEE FOOD | PAGE A9 SEE BISS | PAGE A4

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Recent changes to Bloom- ington’s grocery landscape have disrupted what Land described as an intentional, carefully crafted design from the early 1990s that served Blooming- ton’s four points of the compass with essential services. Land said he employed “locational plan- ning” techniques to bring the northside Marsh Supermarket to 1825 N. Kinser Pike. The store opened on Oct. 31,1993. Finding balance Remembering those 1990s strategy sessions, Land painted a picture of city planners, gathered around a circular table covered in city maps. Because nobody had a compass, one city planner volun- teered a shoelace to help draw a circle around key intersections on the city’s north, south, east and west sides. JEREMY HOGAN | HERALD-TIMES Land said the task force of Signs at the Marsh supermarket on North Kinser Pike in Bloomington advertise sales in advance of its closing earlier this month. city planners decided the critical intersections were: North Kinser Pike and the Ind. 45/46 Bypass to “Accuracy was not so appropriate as the north; East Winslow Road proximity. It’s not perfect, but it creates and South Walnut Street to the something that’s not random.” south; West Third Street and Lib- erty Drive to the west; and East BILL LAND, who was Bloomington’s senior long-range Third Street and the Ind. 45/46 planner from November 1989 to May 1994, referring to Bypass to the east. the formula the city used to decide where supermarkets The resulting map displayed should go based on population four circles, each roughly three miles from the next and about four miles away from the oppos- “Our intent was to have services in all ing point of the compass. Land’s recollection of the diagram looks sections of the community. We didn’t like a baseball diamond, with want sprawl. We wanted a walkable, grocery services planned at each of the four bases. pleasant community. It took a great deal The goal of the diagram was of time and a lot of effort to do this, and to guarantee residents near those critical intersections were being all of the stakeholders were involved.” served while drawing cross traffic TOMI ALLISON, who was mayor of Bloomington in 1991, through downtown. when the city’s master plan was adopted City planners then counted the number of residences within a mile of each point, multiplied that number by 2.5 to reflect a more accurate population count and compared that number to the No more Marsh supermarkets square footage of grocery stores What has replaced the Marsh supermarkets that were once in that same area. scattered in all corners of Bloomington? He couldn’t remember what Southside: The Marsh at ratio city planners used to deter- JEREMY HOGAN | HERALD-TIMES mine whether an area was under- 2424 S. Walnut St. closed in served. The arithmetic process 2007. The building sat empty Produce is on display at Lucky’s Market, which took over the former Marsh was more context-based. until Lucky’s, which has close location on South Walnut Street in 2015. The building had been vacant since “Accuracy was not so appro- ties to Kroger, opened there in 2015. the Marsh closed in 2007. priate as proximity,” Land said. O’Malia’s: Another Marsh brand, O’Malia’s Food “It’s more complicated than just closing “It’s not perfect, but it creates Market at 512 S. College Mall Road closed in late something that’s not random.” 2014. The building has subsequently become the grocery stores when you’re talking about Land said the city planners home of Bloomington’s eastside Goodwill thrift found the east side was almost food desert and food insecurities. If you store. saturated three times over with just put in an accessible supermarket, essential services. The west side Westside: The Marsh at 3600 W. Third St. you’ll be fine, right? There have been was slightly under-served, and closed in February 2016. Fresh Thyme the south side had about half as Farmers Market opened in that loca- some studies done, but it’s not as many grocery stores as it needed. tion in spring of this year. easy as people thought. Diet is really City planners’ greatest concern was the north side, where there Northside: The Marsh at 1825 N. complicated; it’s like sex, it’s a behavior.” were no grocery stores. Kinser Pike closed earlier this month. Kroger announced it would open a MEG WEIGEL, an University professor who has studied food Dinner conversation store in that location after renova- insecurity internationally tions, probably within the next year. Tomi Allison was Blooming- ton’s mayor in 1991, when the Topvalco, Inc., a subsid- most recent version of the city’s Eastside: iary of the Kroger Co., bought the seeing worldwide is not just if Today’s approach master plan was initially adopted you have access to food — it’s are Scott Robinson, planning ser- — it was revised in 2002 — and northside and eastside Bloomington Marsh stores last month after Marsh declared bankruptcy. The company is still evaluating the site at 123 S. you worried about having access vices manager for the city, said was a major force in corralling to food. It has a psychosocial ele- Kingston Drive, which is not too far from a major Kroger store and a today’s challenge is to take what’s development in over-served ment to it.” been laid out and figure out how Bloomingfoods co-op, and down the street from a new grocery, slated to areas while fostering grocery A person may experience food to deal with outside factors. The be a Whole Foods, that is under construction in College Mall. store growth in others, according insecurity at a low level and not zoning for such services exists, to Land. even realize it. Individuals and and the comprehensive mas- “Our intent was to have ser- ing with the whole community. of Public Health, has studied food families may be food secure and ter plan demonstrates desired vices in all sections of the com- experience no problems, or they We’re not going to rush anything insecurity internationally. development, but outside market munity,” Allison said. “We didn’t may have marginal food security, and we’re going to work out this “It’s more complicated than forces and disruptive technology want sprawl. We wanted a walk- meaning there are a few indica- stuff.’” In the end, Allison said, just closing grocery stores when take the control out of the city’s able, pleasant community. It took tors of food access problems, they calmed down. you’re talking about food desert hands. a great deal of time and a lot of such as anxiety about having “The desire for local food is Now, both the northside for- and food insecurities,” Weigel effort to do this, and all of the enough food. growing, but now there seems mer Marsh and the eastside for- said. “If you just put in an acces- stakeholders were involved.” Those who report reduced to be this question of, ‘What’s mer Marsh at 123 S. Kingston sible supermarket, you’ll be fine, Allison said prior to the 1973 quality and desirability in their the role of the big box grocery?’” Drive exist within planned unit right? There have been some city comprehensive master plan, food are experiencing food inse- Robinson said. developments. James Roach, city studies done, but it’s not as easy a large number of multifamily and curity. They may substitute beans Robinson pointed to delivery as people thought. Diet is really commercial zoning areas were development services manager, for meat, but they don’t have grocery services such as planned throughout Blooming- outlined in an email to The Her- complicated; it’s like sex, it’s a a reduced food intake. Those or Blue Apron as sending shock- ton without any thought about ald-Times those permitted uses: behavior.” identified as having very low waves through the grocery indus- how the city would grow. Then, the north side is required to have Simply plopping a grocery food security will have multiple try, but as Weigel said, access in the 1990s, developers came to a grocery/drugstore anchor, and store down isn’t enough, accord- disruptions, and may skip meals isn’t always physical distance. collect on those zoning allow- the eastside location’s only per- ing to Weigel. Most food insecu- or eat smaller portions to provide Food insecurity is tracked using ances, and clusters of develop- mitted use is a supermarket. In rity stems from poverty, but it someone else, perhaps a child, two metrics: low access and low ment — particularly on the east his opinion, a new development can also be influenced by culture, with more food. income, which might mean an side — threatened to throw the such as a distribution warehouse language barriers, individual Monroe County has the sec- individual doesn’t have internet city off-balance. would require city review for a behaviors, access to transporta- ond-highest rate of food inse- or a smart phone to order such In response, Allison said use change within either of those tion, dietary restrictions, time curity in Indiana, according to services, or enough money to pay neighborhood associations, planned unit developments. constraints, budgeting issues the most recent available data for them. developers, property owners, and more. by feedingamerica.org. Monroe There was a general consen- business people and many others Missing pieces Weigel wouldn’t say whether County has a rate of 17.8 percent, sus, Robinson said, that the north in the community came together When the last two Marsh she thought the area near the second only to Marion County’s side of Bloomington needed a to find common ground, in addi- stores closed in July, the tempo- former northside Marsh was at 18.6 percent — compared with grocery store, but the call comes tion to city officials. rary vacancy on the north side risk for food insecurity, but she Indiana’s overall figure of 14.4 down to the business. He said “A mayor can always use their brought back a problem that and Rodrigo Armijos, an associ- percent. Even with careful plan- when developers come in, they’ll office to talk with any business had been solved years earlier. ate professor of environmental ning at the city level, Monroe sometimes bounce ideas off city about their concerns in working Without Marsh, there were no and occupational health at Indi- County ranked poorly in terms staff in an informal setting. That with the community and seeking longer essential food services on ana University’s School of Public of food security. allows city staff to generate inter- advice on how a property should Bloomington’s north side, leav- Health, will be conducting a door- It remains to be seen whether est in a particularly under-served be used,” Allison said. ing many in the area with limited to-door study of food insecurity a Kroger coming to the northside region, or help influence that To developers upset by the food options. in Bloomington next month. will adequately serve that area of business’s decisions. community backlash against Meg Weigel, an Indiana Uni- “We don’t really know, in the Bloomington, but what is certain Largely, though, safeguards groceries in over-served parts of versity professor and interim different neighborhoods, what is that Monroe County’s poor for the appropriate use and Bloomington, Allison told them, chairwoman of the department of the food security is,” Weigel said. rating would have only grown placement of grocery stores “‘We’re not going to rush this. You environmental and occupational “The USDA assesses these sort had a grocery not moved into the throughout Bloomington were will have your say. We are work- health at the university’s School of things, and what people are vacant space. set decades ago.