The last decade as chronology, 2015–2026: the suburb's quiet years, then its loudest one

2015–2026 · year-banded from this build's banked milestones only; thin years printed thin

2015–2016 — the trustee era opens: Kenneth E. Lindsay takes the Harris Township trustee's office in January 2015, beginning the tenure that still runs as of this section's date — the decade's longest continuous local fact, and, through his Gazette columns, one of its recording instruments. The Gazette stands at volume 19 in April 2015. The build's record reaches no other Granger-ground milestone for 2016, and the year is printed at that size.

2017–2019 — rooftops and a hospital at the line: The plat wave continues (the Area Plan Commission's Plat Committee takes Bradford Shores Phase II's street names on 17 January 2019). In November 2018 SpartanNash announces its acquisition of Martin's Super Markets, the corridor's grocer, closing 31 December 2018 at roughly 3,500 employees — the ground's retail anchor passes to a Grand Rapids owner without a store moving. In 2019 Beacon Granger Hospital opens at the boundary (seated in Mishawaka by the geocoder, as the Health leg prints), giving the ground a hospital with its name and another city's address — the decade's emblematic Granger fact.

2020–2022 — the count, the water, the fields: The census of 1 April 2020 counts the CDP at 30,337 — growth stalled at the line after three decades of doubling, the demographic headline of the decade. The ground's utility wars run through these years: the Granger water question, fought across the Hills and the township, reaches its regulatory marker in the order of 13 April 2022 that stands in the Water leg. Harris Township votes its fields project in 2022, beginning the Harris Park rebuild whose closures run into 2027. The record reached carries no separate 2021 milestone at Granger-ground strength; the year stands in the band, unadorned.

2023 — the quiet year, printed as found:Penn's baseball and softball titles of 2023 belong to Mishawaka's build; they are this ground's only by the pipeline, and stand here as a pointer, not an entry.

2024 — the year the ground changed hands and caught fire: Microsoft buys the EKI campus land for $77.5 million, the largest transaction in the ground's history, converting its east side from farm-and-campus ground to a data-center future. On 26 August 2024 the Juday Creek clubhouse burns — the decade's defining loss in the ground's small stock of beloved buildings — beginning the two-year rebuild the Sports article above closes.

2025 — new management at the schools, a sale at the club: Dr. Heather Short becomes Penn-Harris-Madison's superintendent on 1 July 2025, the decade's change at the institution that employs and educates the most Granger families. Trade-press reports place the Knollwood Country Club's sale in February 2025, at the approach of its fiftieth anniversary — printed at trade-press strength, with the club's exact founding still behind its named gap.

2026 — the loudest year in the ground's record: February: Michiana Echo merges into Northern Indiana Football Club. 24 March: the Clay Fire Territory's merger is voted, to take effect in 2027. 22 July: Granger Christian School's closure is announced — a school gone from the ground. 22 September: ground breaks on Juday Creek's new clubhouse. 6 October: the county votes the $65 million Microsoft memorandum. 2 November: site dewatering is approved, work to run mid-December 2026 into April 2027. 3 November: the voters turn over the ground's county representation — Bill Redman takes Commissioner District 1 (16,735–11,924, office from 1 January 2027), Jan Cervelli takes Council District C (5,521–5,145), Mike Hamann takes District A (5,572–4,476). November: the Anderson Trail County Park — Anderson Road Park in the Parks leg's naming, the conform between the two names flagged in the banked file and not merged here — reaches expected substantial completion. A decade that began with a trustee taking office ends with the ground's government, ground water, school map and east side all in motion at once.

Sources:

1. The banked legs of this build, milestone by milestone — Government (trustee tenure; the 3 November 2026 results), Businesses (Martin's acquisition; Microsoft purchase and memorandum), Water (the 13 April 2022 order), Sports and Parks (Harris fields; Juday Creek fire and groundbreaking; Knollwood sale reports; Anderson Trail completion), Schools (Short's superintendency from 1 July 2025; Granger Christian School's closure announcement), Population (the 2020 count), Health (the hospital's 2019 opening and boundary seat).
2. SpartanNash acquisition record, November–December 2018, for the Martin's closing date and workforce as carried in the employers article above.