The Hammond Port Authority announced on Friday that it will rename the Hammond Marina the “Thomas M. McDermott, Sr. Hammond Marina” after the city’s former mayor, who served from 1984 to 1992. McDermott, a Republican and the father of Hammond’s current Democratic Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., championed the $23 million construction of the marina in the late 1980s. The site opened in 1991 and .
The closure is for work in anticipation of significant residential and business development downtown, in association with the new West Lake Corridor commuter railroad.