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City staff and land bank report: $6.75M REDI 2 award, multiple housing projects and tax-sale data revealing many unsold Muncie parcels
Summary
City staff said Muncie won $6,750,000 in REDI 2 funds for downtown redevelopment including a 34-unit Old West End housing project; the land bank reported 522 parcels listed in the 2025 tax sale, with 191 sold and many parcels repeatedly unsold — prompting discussion about buyer concentration and county surplus funds.
City staff and the Muncie Land Bank gave a wide-ranging update to the Redevelopment Commission on Nov. 20 that covered a federal/state REDI 2 award, multiple planned housing projects, a lease on a City-owned property and a data-driven review of the recent tax sale.
Jeff Howe (city staff) told the commission the city was awarded $6,750,000 in REDI 2 funding to support transformative development in the downtown core. Howe said that, when combined with more than $10,000,000 in city infrastructure investment, the award would advance the Muncie Central City Housing Project — which the staff presentation described as including roughly 34 new homes in the Old West End — and help underwrite other downtown housing work, including discussions about a 4‑story multiunit building that could add roughly 100 units in the downtown area.
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