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2012 TO NOVEMBER 2026
The modern course of the frame's roads is best read in the programmed record — the Michiana Area Council of Governments' transportation improvement programs, where the county's projects for this ground stand listed with their money and their letting dates — because that record dates the transformation the subdivisions demanded. Four projects of the FY2012–FY2015 program fall inside the frame. Gumwood Road, from the state line to Brick Road: added travel lanes — the north–south corridor rebuilt as a through route to Michigan, whose construction season of 2014 also brought the frame's first modern roundabouts at Gumwood and Brick and Gumwood and Adams, both open by December 2014 (a Granger jeweler's trade notice of that month, announcing the road's reopening, is the dated witness: "There are now two round-about's at Gumwood and Brick Rd. and Gumwood and Adams Rd."). Cleveland Road at Ash Road: a roundabout, $3.13 million, let January 2013. McKinley Highway (U.S. 20), Birch Road to Ash Road: added travel lanes, $14.6 million, let January 2014 — the boundary highway's widening along the frame's southern edge. And Adams Road, Elm Road to Cherry Road: the Granger Paths project, bicycle and pedestrian construction let in 2013 — the stage road of the first entry re-made, in part, as a path. Gumwood's own corridor fight continues across the line: in 2022–23 the Cass County Road Commission was still seeking funds to complete the fourth leg of the Gumwood–Redfield roundabout in Milton Township, Michigan — the same road, the same argument, two states.
The corridor arguments are the era's other record. Douglas Road is the county's designated east–west relief: the county's long-term plan, stated in the University of Notre Dame's 2013 realignment record, is "to develop Douglas — the only through street to the University Park Mall area between Edison Road to the South and Cleveland Road to the north — into a major east-west corridor." The west end of that corridor, at the frame's doorstep, has been rebuilt in stages: Douglas realigned north between Juniper Road and SR 933 in 2013 "to connect to 933 at the Toll Road entrance," and Douglas four-laned between Twyckenham Drive and Ironwood Road in the 2022–23 project ND's works record documents (closures from 11 April 2022; "when the project is completed next year, Douglas Road will be four lanes with ample turning lanes at both Ironwood and Indiana 23"), with INDOT overseeing construction. East of State Road 23, inside the frame, Douglas Road still runs two lanes through the subdivisions as of November 2026 — the corridor's unfinished half, and the standing subject of the county's next argument. The pattern of the era, read whole: the section-line grid of the third entry, asked to carry a suburb of thirty thousand, is being rebuilt intersection by intersection — roundabouts at the tree-named crossings, lanes added on the state-line road, a path on the stage road — in the order the traffic counts compel.
Sources: MACOG, Transportation Improvement Program FY2012–FY2015, project listings (DES 0101182 Gumwood Road; DES 1005762 Cleveland Rd at Ash Rd roundabout; DES 0902286 McKinley Hwy Birch to Ash; DES 0902236/1006373 Adams Road Granger Paths); Van Horne Jewelers, "Gumwood Road is Now Open," trade blog, December 2014 (the two Gumwood roundabouts, quoted); Southwest Michigan Planning Commission records, December 2022–January 2023 (the Gumwood–Redfield fourth-leg funding request, Cass County Road Commission); University of Notre Dame, Public Affairs (11 January 2013) and NDWorks (1 April 2022) (the Douglas corridor plan, the 2013 realignment, the 2022–23 four-laning).