NORTH MANCHESTER - Plans are in the works for improvements and additions at Peabody Retirement Home, North Manchester. The retirement home recently purchased 92 acres west of its campus, extending to Beckley Street.They also recently purchased four homes along Ninth Street. The retirement community will undergo remodeling, some rebuilding and construction of new buildings in the future.Plans at this point are tentative and a time frame is not yet available. Dereck Frederickson, Engineering Resources, Fort Wayne, represented Peabody Home at Monday's North Manchester Plan Commission meeting.He presented a preliminary plat for their main campus as a planned unit development. Frederickson said the proposal includes adding sidewalks along Ninth and Beckley streets to accommodate pedestrians and adding an underground detention system to absorb stormwater.
LAURA SLOOP, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016