[CPEO-BIF] North River area, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Next downtown development?
Will former OmniSource land be site of the ….

Tracy Warner
Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette (IN)
May 18, 2008


Depending on who is looking at the site and picturing the future, it 
would be a great place for a water park or a multiuse sports center or a 
mix of apartments, restaurants and retail stores. Or it would have been 
a great place for a downtown ball stadium.

City leaders have long envisioned something  special there. With 29 
acres of land – for the most part, level and free of buildings – space 
is plentiful. The location is ideal – across the river from and just 
north of Headwaters Park, across Clinton Street from Lawton Park and 
Science Central, a moderate walk from downtown.

Still, with a deadline looming, formidable obstacles to a city-led 
development remain. The current price tag – up to $4.3 million – is most 
likely beyond the immediate reach of a city government just beginning to 
cope with new property tax laws that will reduce budgets.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/EDIT0502/805180365

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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