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September 1, 2015

Deal to develop park near Indiana dunes

  • A small construction project on Lake Michigan has ballooned into a privatization deal with restaurants, a banquet hall and maybe a hotel and marina.
    • By BRIAN SLODYSKO
    Associated Press

    INDIANAPOLIS — The parkland surrounding Indiana's towering dunes was intended to keep industry away from a geological marvel molded over thousands of years at the southern tip of Lake Michigan.

    Yet five years after a politically connected developer suggested officials should hire a company to rehabilitate a dilapidated beachfront pavilion at the popular tourist destination, the small construction project has ballooned into a decades-long privatization deal with the state. It includes two beachfront restaurants, a rooftop bar, a glass-walled banquet hall promising “the best view in Indiana” — and there is potential for even more development.


     
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