MidTown Inc. will hold four public forums in June in an effort to reach a community consensus on potential uses of the property surrounding the Columbus Public Library and the old Sears property along Macon Road.

"I hope to run through the history of this process, how the school board obtained the property and to get ideas, thoughts and preferences of the citizens of Columbus wherever they live," MidTown Executive Director Teresa Tomlinson said Tuesday.

The forums will be at four public schools, two in the midtown area and two outside the area.

"We thought it was important that two meetings not be in midtown but outside," she said. "This is a tremendous community asset in which we need community input from all citizens of Columbus. We've been holding individual stakeholder meetings and meetings with people who called. Now we're moving into the forum process. I hope to have 100 ...