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Elkhart council expands riverfront district to include Winchester Mansion and allow development across rail tracks

Elkhart City Common Council · December 16, 2025
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Summary

The council adopted a resolution to expand the municipal riverfront development boundaries to bring the Winchester Mansion and portions of Freight Street into the project area; staff said the change aims to square off the 3rd Street boundary, allow approved developments to use the process and potentially leverage downtown TIF support.

The Common Council unanimously adopted a resolution to expand the City of Elkhart’s municipal riverfront development project area, a change staff said would bring the Winchester Mansion inside the district and allow development across the railroad tracks toward Freight Street.

"It's a little bit of both Councilman Hanky. We actually had, an interested person who's thinking about purchasing the Winchester Mansion that started to drive the timing of this," a staff member identified as Mike said during…

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