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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, developed from 1878, idle in its last uses since 2024, and acquired by the City of Mishawaka in October 2024. The Dodge record in full stands in the Businesses section; this entry carries only its November 2026 state.
The state: That state, at its documents: the Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives of May 2026 works the ground through the Indiana Brownfields Program with federal revolving-loan money; the city holds an approved $500,000 subgrant for remediation of the site's asbestos contamination, published for public comment from 29 May to 30 June 2026; the site's administrative index of May 2026 carries the remediation work plan and the decision memo as pending final approval. The city's stated plan — in the Brownfields documents and the state preservation correspondence alike — is demolition of the buildings and affordable residential housing on the ground. None of it is accomplished as this section closes: the buildings stand, the cleanup is in its approvals course, and the demolition is a plan with funding machinery attached, not an event. The preservation tension the plan carries — the state preservation office's finding of June 2025 that the complex is eligible for the National Register, against its concurrence of December 2025, for the asbestos-abatement scope alone, that no historic property would be adversely affected — stands in full in the Heritage section and is pointed to here, not re-argued.
Sources:
- Indiana Finance Authority / Indiana Brownfields Program — Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives, May 2026, and the site's Administrative Record Index, May 2026 (site #4060054; the city's acquisition of October 2024; the work plan and decision memo pending approval).
- City of Mishawaka — public notice, May 2026 (the approved $500,000 subgrant; the remediation work plan open for comment 29 May–30 June 2026).
- Indiana State Historic Preservation Officer — correspondence of 19 June 2025 and 2 December 2025, as carried in the Heritage section of this history.