Neighbors of the proposed Cottages at St. Joe Center Road have vowed to continue to fight the housing project next to Fort Wayne Community Schools St. Joe Central Elementary School.
Light could be shed next week on a mysterious proposal for a mammoth-sized – or maybe mastodon-sized – industrial building near the outskirts of Fort Wayne.
Housing proposal gets pulled
ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette
The developer of a controversial multifamily housing project on West State Boulevard has withdrawn its application.
The proposal from Neuhaus Properties LLC of Fort Wayne, represented by Martin J. Henry, originally was for a rezoning and approval of a primary development plan for 48 units in six new buildings and eventual renovation of a building used as a church.
Henry is a brother of Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry.
The 7.78-acre site is now zoned single-family residential.
Neighbors objected to the density of the plans for the site and said it was unsuitable because it is mostly wooded, with wetlands and elevation changes. Residents also contended the development would impinge upon an unusual residential area known as Log Cabin Park.
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.