Just claims and a few brief project updates were on Monday’s agenda for the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission, including the demolition of the former Gatke property.
Community and Economic Development Director Jeremy Skinner said he hadn’t been out to the former Gatke property as of Monday’s meeting, but demolition was supposed to have started Monday morning. He was going to swing by there on his way home.
“Getting close to starting that project,” he said, adding that the Millworks project - at the former Owen’s Supermarket site - is doing well. That housing project might kick off in the fall or, worst case, in the spring.
Commission President George Clemens asked how long the Gatke demolition will take. Skinner estimated two to three weeks, but he wasn’t given a timeframe.
The approximately $20 million rehabilitation project of the existing Gatke warehouse, 2321 E. Winona Ave., by Rebar Development, as of earlier this year, includes restoring the current steel structure, 12,000 square feet of eight flex units, 4,300 square feet of commercial space and at least 75 market-rate one- and two-bedroom apartments with amenities.
Millworks is the market-rate apartments and limited commercial use project at the location of the former Owens grocery store at the intersection of Market and Columbia streets.
Skinner also reported they were going to be participating in a water line extension with Indiana American Water to service Applied Thermal Solutions out at the Airport Industrial Park. He’ll bring some matters before the board on that to start the process at their October meeting. It’ll be “similar” to what they did with Danco Medical, he said.
Claims approved by the Redevelopment Commission included:
• $158.38, Indiana American Water, for the Marsh property; $122.87 and $52.14, NIPSCO, for the Marsh property;
• $120, Skinner, for his cell phone allowance;
• $1,170.45 and $3,546, A & Z Engineering LLC, CR 200N roundabout project engineering services;
• $98,281.16 and $1,718.84, G & G Hauling & Excavating Inc., for the commission’s portion of the alley improvement by The Grove housing addition;
• $3,812, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and $5,175.10, Bakertilly, for ongoing legal and financial services for the Warsaw Chemical and a TIF (tax increment financing) expansion project;
• $2,600, IWM Consulting Group, an environmental consulting group, for phase I of the Warsaw Chemical purchase;
• $42,000, West Hill Development, commission’s lease agreement for the third shell building at the Warsaw Tech Park;
• $300, Kosciusko Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO), lease agreement for workspace for PeekMed;
• $10,500, Engineering Resources Inc., design of turn lane on CR 200N;
• $300,000, Bank of New York, payment for wastewater treatment plant;
• and $500,000 and $124,400, First Federal, for reinvesting the money that’s set aside in bond issues in the SRF (State Revolving Fund) accounts.