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2024

Gary Council OK's $2 million more for blight elimination fund

Valparaiso's new transit center opens with waiting area, ticket sales for bus riders

Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority's Gateway Transit Development District and Banc projects drive downtown Hammond success

New Lake County Convention Center could lead to construction of another 2,000 to 3,000 hotel rooms

South Shore Line's Double Track project celebrated by hundreds at Monday ribbon-cutting

Hard Rock donates $3M to help eliminate blighted buildings in Gary

The Franklin at 11th Street Station one of several housing projects to bring hundreds of residents to downtown Michigan City

Potential convention center's economic impact touted; Hobart site deemed best

2023

State Budget Committee endorses three new transit development districts

Northwest Indiana Influential Women Association bestows awards

VIDEO UPDATE: Visit our YouTube channel to see the public engagement sessions for the Dune Park, Hammond South and Gary Metro TDDs.

Development planning picks up as rail projects take shape

SHERRI ZILLER: The curtain rises on new transit-oriented development in Northwest Indiana

State Budget Committee approves seven transit districts

2022

WATCH NOW: Double Track groundbreaking: 'Truly a Hoosier moment in history like few others'

2021

Leaders from across the seven-county Northwest Indiana region, including the RDA’s president and CEO Sherri Ziller, traveled to Indianapolis in December 2021 to ask state officials for more than $50 million in READI grant funding to drive economic development. Watch Sherri and the rest of the team make their case here.

Hammond transit development district eyed as downtown catalyst

Draft Hammond TDD  includes areas north and south of the Grand Cal

South Shore 11th Street station to close for Double Track project

Federal coronavirus relief aids South Shore projects

Ziller: NWI will bounce back with rail expansion and local development

Ziller named president, CEO of Regional Development Authority

South Shore projects, years in the making, cross the starting line in 2020

East Chicago growth opportunities targeted in transit-oriented development plan

Transit district to boost Portage’s north side plan

2020

Transit Development Districts Presented for Munster-Dyer and Ogden Dunes Stations

RDA Approves 2021 Budget

South Shore Expansion Project Breaks Ground

RDA Release Draft Boundaries for Munster Dyer and Ogden Dunes Transit Development Districts

RDA to Host Public Engagement Session for Munster Ridge Road Transit Development District

RDA Release Draft Boundaries for the Munster Ridge Road Transit Development District

Federal Transportation Administration Advances $50.6 Million for South Shore Double Track Project

RDA, Community Leadership Collaborate on Design of Transit Development Districts

Construction to Begin in October on West Lake Corridor

Patrick Lyp Appointed to RDA Board of Directors

RDA Sets Aside an Additional $30 Million for the West Lake Corridor Project

2019

Year in Review: All the developments in the West Lake and Double Track comuter trail expansion projects in 2019

NICTD’s Board approves construction agreements with Hammond, Munster and Dyer for the West Lake Corridor.

RDA President and CEO Bill Hanna discusses the state of Northwest Indiana with Inside Indiana Business.

West Lake receives permission to enter into engineering, the penultimate step in securing federal participation in the project.

How Transit Oriented Development could work in Northwest Indiana.

RDA boosts Brownfield loan to City of Gary for former Methodist Church project

Extensive marina renovations and a new Harborwalk, funded in part by the RDA, are paying off for East Chicago.

RDA and IFA Boards approve financial plan for Double Track project

NIRPC, the RDA and the NWI Forum have received another $600,000 from EPA for brownfield remediation.

RDA President and CEO Bill Hanna talks with Inside Indiana Business about progress on the West Lake Corridor

The State of Indiana expands its commitment to commuter rail expansion in Northwest Indiana

The FTA has given the West lake Corridor project a “medium-high” rating, the second-highest rating, making it eligible for a matching grant.

RDA Brownfields loan helps secure a $40 million senior housing project in East Chicago.

South Shore Extension Moves Closer to Fruition

2018

Feds approve South Shore Line's Double Track environmental work

Transit Development District Steering Committee Continues Work

Transit Development District Holds May Meeting

Community Engagement Conference Highlights Importance of Regional Connectivity

Funding For South Shore Considered by Congress