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The Landing is Columbia Street, a single block of nineteenth-century commercial buildings just west of the downtown core — and it is famous for being first: Columbia Street was Fort Wayne's first commercial street, the trading row of the canal era, where the town's wholesale houses and hotels fronted the Wabash and Erie Canal's traffic. The block survived, diminished, through the twentieth century, and in 2020 it reopened as The Landing, a $35 million adaptive-reuse development that restored the historic facades and filled them with restaurants, housing and offices. The canal-era commerce that made the street is in the Business chapter and the development record in Fort Wayne Today; the place's distinction is its continuity — the street where Fort Wayne commerce began is a working commercial street again, in its original buildings, a hundred and eighty years on.
Sources: The Landing and Greater Fort Wayne Inc. project records ($35 million adaptive reuse, opened 2020); the Business and Fort Wayne Today chapters of this history.