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Current & Today · Mishawaka as it stands, November 2026
This section is the gathered present tense of the whole history: the standing facts of the city as a whole, the published shape of its economy, what is actually being built and what is only announced, the name the city calls itself by now, and the dated futures the record already holds. It is verified to November 2026, item by item as dated — every entry below carries the date of the publication it rests on, because this is the file in the record that goes stale first. Where two published figures disagree, both are printed. Where a current fact could not be verified — a project's start past its last published approval, a completion claimed but not confirmed — the gap is printed as a gap, in the entry where it belongs. The full accounts stand elsewhere in this history; what follows is the portrait, at the size the current record supports.
The standing facts
November 2026
The frame: Mishawaka stands in November 2026 as a separately incorporated city of St. Joseph County, Indiana, lying wholly on Penn Township ground, its western line touching South Bend's eastern line — two cities, one county, and…
The economy as published
September 2026 labor figures, published October–November 2026
The rate: Mishawaka publishes no labor series of its own; its labor market is measured as part of the two-county metropolitan area it anchors with South Bend, and the figures print as the region's, never as the city's alone. The…
The employers, as the lists state them
Regional snapshot, December 2025; counted table, 2021
The most recent list: The most recent regional list is the Anderson Economic Group's 2025 market snapshot of the South Bend–Mishawaka region (employment data as of December 2025), which names the region's employers "notable for…
What is being built: the river and the center
In flight, November 2026
The 100 Center: Downtown's largest standing project is the 100 Center Historic Revitalization — the Kamm & Schellinger brewery complex of 1853 on the river — a $41.5 million redevelopment carrying 104 residential units, 79,200…
What is being built: the works
Under construction or announced, November 2026
Hums Elementary: The school's full record stands in the Schools section; the line here is the standing fact of November 2026 — the city's largest school build in a generation is a building site, with an announced opening a school…
The Dodge ground: cleanup in course, demolition planned
State as published, May–November 2026
The ground: The largest single redevelopment question standing in the city is the former Dodge Manufacturing and RMG Foundry ground at 500 South Union Street — some 373,000 square feet of former factory under one roof-line…
The Microsoft EKI Campus
Granger ground, Mishawaka services; state as of November 2026
The boundary, printed first: The largest development in Mishawaka's orbit does not stand in Mishawaka. Microsoft's EKI Campus — some 929 acres of the former St. Joe Farm at Bittersweet and Cleveland Roads, addressed by the state…
The city as it presents itself
The official voice, 2025–2026
The name in current use: The city calls itself, in its current official voice, the Princess City — the name the folklore record traces to a nineteenth-century fiction and the city has carried since. It is not a retired nickname…
The dated future
Documented dates ahead, as announced
The next weeks: The record Mishawaka stands in already holds its near dates. On 12 November 2026 — two days after this section's check date — the Twin Branch hydroelectric plant's license future is the subject of a public open…
Mishawaka Today: How Current This Record Is
Check date: 10 November 2026
Verified to 10 November 2026, item by item as dated: That date is the whole method of this section, and its limit, and it is stated here in the file as the instruction of this section requires: every present-tense line above is…
The portrait this section closes is a set of standing facts; what it lacked was the road between them. The chronology below runs the decade that made the present city, year by year, from the build's own dated record — the elections, closings, openings, annexation fights and building campaigns the other files document — so that November 2026 can be read as the end of a sequence and not as a snapshot.
The last decade as a chronology, 2015–2026
Year-banded · every entry dated and sourced
2015. Mayor Dave Wood, first seated by caucus in 2010 and elected in his own right in 2011, was re-elected — the second of the three re-elections (2015, 2019, 2023) the government record documents. On the river, Central Park was…