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Parks board votes to transfer Heritage Park to City of Logansport
Summary
The Logansport Parks and Recreation Board approved a resolution transferring Heritage Park to the City of Logansport so an adjacent community foundation project can use the land for an expanded farmers market and commercial kitchen; the board discussed statue stewardship, site survey needs and temporary maintenance through construction.
The Logansport Parks and Recreation Board on a voice vote approved a resolution to transfer ownership of Heritage Park — the small parcel adjacent to the farmers market — to the City of Logansport to allow an adjacent community foundation project to expand the market and build a commercial kitchen.
Board members said the community foundation has been awarded a $5,000,000 grant to improve the farmers market and plans to build a commercial kitchen intended as an incubator for small food businesses. Park staff told the board the foundation needs the adjacent parcel so the kitchen can operate and that moving the parcel out of the parks inventory was the most straightforward option to allow the project to proceed.
Board members emphasized that the city will take formal ownership and that the parks department will maintain the park only until construction starts. The board discussed the immigrant statue that sits on the parcel and said stewardship of that feature must be clarified with donors and the city before the transfer is completed. Park staff noted that lighting, granite markers, picnic tables, benches, trash cans and flower pots would be removed and relocated as part of the transfer and that a survey of the parcel will be required to carve out the statue area and document the transfer.
The resolution was introduced at the meeting as “Parks Board Resolution 2025-1” to transfer Heritage Preservation Park to the City of Logansport and was approved by the board. Board members said the city council will need to take the item up on a city agenda and that the parks department will work with the community foundation and identified donors on a memorandum of understanding for the statue’s future care.
The board did not adopt a final plan for where the fountain and other park fixtures will be relocated; staff said some features will be rehabilitated before reinstallation or moved to another city-owned site. The transfer and the discussion about donor obligations and a land survey are the next steps listed by staff.
