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Residents press council for soil tests, transparency at Project Maze/Google site

Michigan City Common Council · April 22, 2026
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Summary

Public commenters urged the council to seek full soil- and groundwater-analytical results and called for Indiana Department of Environmental Management review before more construction at the Project Maze (data-center) site; several residents alleged incomplete remediation and asked the city to demand verifiable cleanup steps from the developer.

Multiple residents raised public-health and transparency concerns about the Project Maze data-center site at 402 Royal Road during the council’s public-comment period on April 21.

Ashley Williams, a resident speaking during public comment, said the development and its owner (named in public materials as Phoenix Investors) had not provided adequate information about contamination and site safety. "We are being denied site plans for the data centers. No water, no energy usage, no emergency management plans, no nothing," she said, adding that the developer had…

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