Credit Photo provided by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society
Headwaters Junction, Inc. has announced the start of development efforts on 1010 Cass Street, complimenting Promenade Park in downtown Fort Wayne.
Headwaters Junction is a non-profit dedicated to “establishing a regional railroad attraction” along Fort Wayne’s riverfront. The project has been in the works since SWA Group recommended it during initial riverfront discussions in 2015, according to a release issued Wednesday..
Phase I of the project is underway, which will consist of a coffee and ice cream shop inside the site of the city’s railroad station.
A spokesman for Headwaters Junction calls it the “tip of the spear” based on its location, and says it will serve as a teaser for the remaining phases. Future phases will feature a “rail-yard park, incerceptive facility and operating tourist railroad.”
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Headwaters Junction plan advances
ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette
A plan for a phase of Headwaters Junction attraction on the north side of the St. Mary s River in Fort Wayne is chugging ahead with approvals from the Fort Wayne Plan Commission.
The railroad history nonprofit organization will be allowed to move the restored 19th-century Craigville Depot and a refurbished former military hospital rail car from the 1950s to a parking lot east of Fort Wayne Outfitters.
The outdoor recreation business focuses on boating and cycling and stands along the river at 1004 Cass St., just east of Wells Street. The business s owners, Tim and Cara Hall, are selling some of the rarely used land in their parking lot to further Headwaters Junction s progress.
Headwaters Junction phase OK d
Restored depot, rail car to move north side of St. Marys
ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette
A plan for one phase of the Headwaters Junction attraction on the north side of the St. Marys River is chugging ahead with approvals from the Fort Wayne Plan Commission.
The railroad history nonprofit organization will be allowed to move the restored 19th-century Craigville Depot and a refurbished former military hospital rail car from the 1950s to a parking lot east of Fort Wayne Outfitters.
The outdoor recreation business focuses on boating and cycling and stands along the river at 1004 Cass St., just east of Wells Street. The business s owners, Tim and Cara Hall, are selling some of the rarely used land in their parking lot to further Headwaters Junction s progress.