Today, it’s 640 acres of mostly farm fields on Lafayette’s east side, but in a year or two, it might be the area’s hot spot for commercial and industrial development.
Lafayette and Tippecanoe County officials are putting together a master plan for the area between McCarty and Haggerty lanes, just west of Veterans Memorial Parkway.
“This is just a preliminary drawing,” County Commissioner Dave Byers said, explaining the map that included three retention ponds, as well as several roads running east, west, north and south. The plan calls for roundabouts.
Byers noted that most of the city and county’s industrial park areas at U.S. 52 and Veterans Memorial Parkway is filled, now that GE Aviation is building there alongside Nanshan’s huge aluminum extrusion plant and Heartland Automotive’s facility.
“If you add 640 acres, you open up a whole new area,” he said.
The plans are merely preliminary, Byers cautioned.
“There’s people out there that are interested in commercial development, industrial development,” Lafayette Development Director Dennis Carson said. “You have to address, first and foremost, the drainage.