[CPEO-BIF] Affordable apartmens planned for former Western Rubber site, Goshen, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rubber brownfield

By Jakob Lazzaro
WVPE 88.1 (Elkhart/South Bend, IN) 
April 18, 2022

A large affordable apartment complex could be coming to the former Western Rubber site in Goshen after the Goshen Common Council approved an economic development revenue bond for the project Monday night.

The $31 million Ariel Cycleworks project is being proposed by developer Anderson Partners. It would contain about 138 apartments and serve as “workforce” housing, meaning the vast majority of units would go for $900 to $1,400 a month — about 60 to 120 percent of area median income — and a portion would be set aside for rent by essential workers.

The proposal also includes 5,000 square feet of commercial space and a connection to the 9th Street bicycle greenway.

And because of the Western Rubber site’s status as a brownfield, it incorporates extensive green infrastructure and stormwater infrastructure to properly manage runoff.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wvpe.org/wvpe-news/2022-04-18/large-apartment-complex-may-be-built-in-goshen-on-former-western-rubber-brownfield

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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