Board gives favorable recommendation for mixed‑use reuse of Trinity Lutheran Church with up to six residential units

The Board of Zoning Appeals made a favorable recommendation to the Crown Point City Council for a proposal to repurpose the former Trinity Lutheran Church and adjacent school at 400 East North Street into office space and a small number of residential units.

Petition 25‑29 was filed by Creekside Living (petitioner) and the 1886 Church Foundation Corporation (owner). "This building... has stood in the community for over a hundred years," said Mike Arnold, president of Creekside Living, describing the group's plan to convert the church sanctuary to office suites and to renovate the school building into four to six residential units.

Planning staff described the request as a special use to allow residential units within the same structure as office services and noted the property sits at the northeast corner of North and Grant streets surrounded largely…