A drawing showing a proposal for the remade Cintas building was released in April. “It is our expectation that the Cintas Initiative will serve to catalyze the maker’s movement in East Central Indiana,” John Fallon told The Star Press.(Photo: Provided by the Muncie Redevelopment Commission)
MUNCIE – Anyone who has navigated the ongoing construction downtown can tell you that Muncie’s core is changing.
But beyond the readily apparent — and sometimes headache-inducing — construction projects, local officials have other plans for downtown that aren’t so obvious yet.
One of the biggest is the possible transformation of land along the White River on the north end of downtown into a riverfront district with retail and housing.
“I’ve had a company in that wanted to talk about that area,” Mayor Dennis Tyler told The Star Press. “They’ve done significant development in riverfront areas.”
Tyler declined to cite the company or its past projects by name, but the city’s downtown focus — once Muncie Sanitary District storm sewer work is complete and stormwater runoff is channeled into a canal near Franklin and Washington and into a White River outfall — will become the development of the riverfront.
The canal — which sanitary district officials hope will become an attraction once it is complete, along with the storm sewers, this fall — is part of a $10-million project that will handle stormwater.
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