What is in motion: the dated register of the place's next changes

EACH ITEM WITH ITS DATE AND ITS NEXT MILESTONE · NOVEMBER 2026

January 1, 2027 — the government turns over: every county and township succession printed in this chapter's government section takes effect on a single morning: Redman to the commissionership, Cervelli and Hamann to the council, the countywide slate to its offices, and the township winners — still unnamed in any record this book can reach — to theirs. The same season carries the fire merger: the seven units' March 24, 2026 vote makes one Clay Fire territory of two in 2027, the merger's open item this month being the state's approval of the boundary change, on which the fire commission's reconstitution waits, per the township's own forward note. Next milestones: the Election Board's certification of the November returns, the Clerk's certified precinct summary that settles the township races, and the state fire-territory approval — each a document, each named, none in hand at this writing.

The campus on Cleveland Road — the winter's work and the open permit: the Microsoft EKI campus, six data-center buildings on some 929 acres of the old St. Joseph's Farm at 12501 Cleveland Road, is the largest single land-use change inside the line since the subdivisions, and its present state is a sequence of dated gates rather than a building: the $77.5 million purchase of 2024; Mishawaka water and sewer by the settlement of August 2024, Microsoft paying for the extensions; the $65 million memorandum of understanding for water, sewer, and road work voted October 6, 2026; no tax abatements sought, on the county's own statement; some 250–300 acres to sit in conservation easement. This month the project stands at two open gates. The state's air permit — IDEM's federally enforceable state operating permit F 141-50527-00655, on Stantec's June 2026 application — is in its public comment period, October 26 to November 25, 2026, preliminary findings issued and the permit not yet granted: the next milestone is the close of comment on November 25 and IDEM's decision after it. And the Drainage Board's November 2, 2026 approval of construction dewatering — up to 200,000 gallons an hour from three wells into Willow Creek and Juday Creek, mid-December 2026 to early April 2027 — is the project's first physical act in the county record: the next milestone is water moving, in December. Beyond the winter, the course as officials state it: site preparation later in 2026, vertical construction in 2027, some 300 permanent jobs on the county officials' figure. One county question rides unresolved beside the build: the proposed Capital Avenue tax-increment area of some 4,000–4,600 acres that would take in the campus ground, its council hearing of September 22, 2026 postponed with no new date set, the same day the council voted 6–3 for a preliminary ban on further hyperscale data centers — the campus grandfathered, the door barred behind it. The campus's whole course is the Businesses leg's; here it stands as the place's largest thing in motion.

The park that waited twenty-five years — finishing now: the county's Anderson Road park ground — some 115 acres at Anderson and Beech, county-owned since 1999 and cash-rented as farmland for a quarter century — is under construction as this chapter closes, and its state has moved since the Parks leg banked: the county's own 2026 construction record builds it in bid packages, the first package's grading, ponds, base paving, and one-mile looped trail resumed in March 2026 and the second package awarded that April, with substantial completion expected in November 2026 on the published account and the parks board's standing expectation that the park comes online near the end of 2026. One conform rides with the state: the county's working name for the park in its 2025–26 minutes, bid documents, and budget lines is Anderson Trail County Park — where the Parks leg, finding no formal naming act, printed the ground as Anderson Road Park and Anderson Road County Park. The names are not merged here; the difference is flagged for the Parks leg's next window, whose settler is the county's naming act or dedication record. Whether the park opens on its expected date is a question the next update window answers; this month it is a construction site finishing, beside The Hills' rising sections, on ground a trustee pleaded over for a decade.

The clubhouse, the ballfields, the soccer club: at Juday Creek Golf Course, the replacement clubhouse for the one fire took on August 26, 2024 was ground-broken on September 22, 2026, and the club's own postings carry the work forward — walls rising through October 2026, weekly progress posts running — with no completion date announced: the next milestone is the club's own announcement, whenever it comes, and the course plays on around the build. At Harris Park on Currant Road, Fields 1–4 are closed to all play for the releveling the league announced in October 2026 — plates, rubbers, bases, and mounds to follow — reopening with the 2027 spring season: the next milestone is that season. And the place's soccer seat plays its first full year under a new name: Michiana Echo, merged in February 2026 into Northern Indiana Football Club, on the leased township fields at Brummitt Road and in its Granger indoor center, as the Sports leg records — the merger's first full season is the item in motion, not a result to be printed early.

The roundabout of 2028, and a music school's campaign: the oldest crossing in this book's record gets its next form on a printed schedule: the SR 23 and Adams Road intersection — a single stop sign in 2026 — is programmed under INDOT project DES 2003096 for rebuilding as a single-lane roundabout with Adams Road realigned some 250 feet northeast, the department's public hearing held March 24, 2026 at Granger Missionary Church and construction anticipated to begin in spring 2028. And at 52549 Gumwood Road, the Suzuki Music School — a tenant in its present building, which its own published record says "will only be available for the next year or two" — is running a first-phase campaign of one hundred thousand dollars to build or purchase a permanent home: the place's live arts story as the build closes, its milestone the campaign's own course, carried whole in the Arts section.

Sources:

1. Government transitions and the fire merger: the Government leg of this build and its sources, as cited in the government article above; WNDU, March 24, 2026 (the merger vote; the 2027 start), verified in this chapter's sweep.
2. The campus: the Businesses leg (gr-biz-microsoft) and its sources — the Tribune sequence 2024–2026, the IDEM public notice of preliminary findings for FESOP No. F 141-50527-00655, the county record of fall 2026 — verified fresh November 11, 2026 against IDEM's own public-notices listing (the Microsoft EKI Campus comment period stands open, October 26–November 25, 2026, permit F 141-50527-00655, on the page as updated November 9, 2026) and the published accounts of the Drainage Board's November 2, 2026 dewatering approval (200,000 gallons an hour; mid-December 2026 to early April 2027).
3. The park: the Parks leg (parks-anderson) for the ground's course; the county's 2026 record as reached in this chapter's sweep — St. Joseph County Parks Board minutes of November 18, 2025 and March 17, 2026 and the April 2026 board packet (the "Anderson Trail County Park" name in the board's own usage; Bid Package 1 construction and resumption; the Bid Package 2 award of April 2026), and the published account carrying substantial completion expected in November 2026 — the name-and-state difference flagged as a conform owed to the Parks leg, not silently conformed here.
4. Juday Creek and Harris Park: the Sports leg and the clubs' own postings as verified in the search — the club's September 23, 2026 post (the official groundbreaking of September 22) and its October 27, 2026 progress post (forms in place to pour walls); the league's October 25, 2026 field-improvements notice (Fields 1–4 closed until the 2027 spring season). The roundabout: the Transportation leg (state-road-23) and the INDOT project record (DES 2003096; hearing of March 24, 2026; construction anticipated spring 2028). The Suzuki campaign: the Arts section (the school's own published record, read November 2026).