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Electric Works is the reborn General Electric Broadway campus, the vast factory complex southwest of downtown where GE employed generations of Fort Wayne families — at its height one of the largest employers in the city — and which emptied as the company's local operations wound down in the 2010s. The campus's reuse, long debated, opened in stages: the West Campus opened to the public on November 23, 2022, with the world headquarters of Do it Best — itself a Fort Wayne company, founded in the city in 1945 — and the Union Street Market food hall in the restored factory buildings. Phase II, named The Elex after the campus's historic employees' publication, opened in April 2026. The GE story is in the Business chapter, the campus's buildings and National Register district in the Architecture chapter, and the development record in Fort Wayne Today. Its place in this chapter is the transformation itself: the city's most famous industrial ground, which Fort Wayne spent years fearing as a ruin, is a working campus again — the largest single site of continuity between the city's manufacturing century and its present one.
Sources: Electric Works and Do it Best project records (West Campus public opening November 23, 2022; The Elex, Phase II, opened April 2026); the Business, Architecture and Fort Wayne Today chapters of this history.