Michigan City lands $4.6M for housing infrastructure work
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Michigan City has received a $4.6 million grant from the Indiana Finance Authority for infrastructure work to support future housing projects. Our partners at WSBT-TV report the city plans to install new sewer systems on undeveloped land.
Mayor Angie Nelson Deuitch says the work will allow future housing developments to begin as soon as possible with the new sewer lines.
“We knew that some of the infrastructure around our sanitary district as far as sewer opportunities would have an impact on these projects,” Nelson Deuitch told WSBT. “So we decided, okay, let’s submit that and that will help alleviate some capacities on the north side.”
The city has several mixed-use apartment projects in the works, which the mayor said will benefit future workers, especially those coming with the planned GM-Samsung SDI electric vehicle battery plant and Amazon Web Services data center in nearby New Carlisle.
The mayor said work is part of an overall effort to make Michigan City attractive to current and future residents.
“What we call workforce housing, it’s your teachers, your police officers, your firefighters,” Nelson Deuitch said. “People who are middle income but still, you got people in the bubble right? So we want to provide that middle housing.”