MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — Michigan City, the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, and a developer have reached agreement on an $80 million mixed-use project that will include a rebuilt South Shore Line station at the site of the recently torn-down 11th Street Station.
The Times of Northwest Indiana reports the project, to be built by Indianapolis-based Flaherty & Collins, will cover a city block. It will include a 12-story high rise with 208 luxury apartments, more than 10,000 feet of commercial space, and a 558-space parking garage, as well as the station. Renderings of the project show that the terra cotta façade of the original 11th Street Station, torn down earlier this year, will be incorporated into the station building. That had been promised in previous renderings of a much smaller development at the station site.
Groundbreaking is planned for summer 2023, with the station to be open by May 2024 and the apartments complete by spring 2025.
The original 11th Street station, built in 1927 and closed since 1987, had been replaced by a bus-type shelter, but remained standing until January. South Shore trains ended stops at 11th Street in May 2021 to allow for the current double-track construction project. The next phase of that project will see the end of the city’s street running as of Monday, with trains replaced by buses for a portion of the Chicago-South Bend, Ind., route [see “Double-track construction set to end South Shore street running,” Trains News Wire, Feb. 22, 2022].
