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 square feet of commercial space and 20 short-term rentals, funded in part by a $5.64 million READI grant awarded in December 2024. Its documented state in November 2026 is approvals, not completion: on 14 April 2026 the Mishawaka Plan Commission unanimously recommended the selective demolition the plan requires — the main brewery building, smokestack, boiler house and stables, all National Register-listed, to be kept, and lesser buildings west of the main structure to come down — with council and state approvals still ahead of it in the published account; and the mayor, in his State of the City address of 30 April 2026, said work would continue in 2026 but the completion date was unknown. Both statements print at their dates: announced and in its approvals course, not accomplished, and no construction start past them was verified for this section.

The Mill's second phase: Across the riverfront, the second phase of The Mill at Ironworks Plaza — the developer Flaherty & Collins's $67 million, 226-apartment mixed-use phase, with 10,600 square feet of commercial space (a development review of December 2025 carried the phase at $60 million; both figures print, unaveraged) — stands completed and in occupancy as this section closes: its first tenants were expected in the spring of 2025, and the property's 2026 leasing listings offer Phase II floor plans to new renters. The developer's figure and the review's differ by seven million and are carried as printed; the occupancy is the leasing record's, November 2026.

Normain Park, accomplished: One 2026 completion belongs in this portrait at one-line size, its full record in the Parks section: on 18 July 2026 the city held the grand opening of the transformed Normain Park, home — on the city's own statement — to Indiana's first Miracle League complex, the phase the mayor's April address had promised for mid-summer, delivered in it.

Sources:

1. City of Mishawaka — release of 19 December 2024 (the $5.64 million READI award; the $41.5 million project; 104 units, 79,200 square feet of commercial space, 20 short-term rentals).
2. WNDU, 14–15 April 2026 — the Plan Commission's unanimous selective-demolition recommendation; the Register-listed elements to be kept; council and state approvals ahead; construction then spoken of for later in the summer.
3. South Bend Tribune, 2 May 2026 — the mayor's State of the City address of 30 April 2026 (100 Center work continuing in 2026, completion date unknown).
4. Flaherty & Collins Properties and Building Indiana Business, 2023 — the Mill Phase II at $67 million, 226 apartments, 10,600 square feet of commercial space; the developer's development review of December 2025 carried at $60 million; the property's leasing listings, 2026 (Phase II floor plans offered).
5. City of Mishawaka — news record, July 2026 (the Normain Park grand opening, 18 July 2026; the Miracle League complex as the city's own statement).