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 year away.

The cancer center: Saint Joseph Health System announced on 20 August 2026 a $25 million comprehensive Cancer Center inside its Mishawaka Medical Office Building at 611 East Douglas Road — some 25,000 square feet consolidating oncology and hematology — with renovation and construction to begin in fall 2026. At this section's closing the project stands exactly there: announced by the system, its building season opening, nothing completed claimed. The hospitals' full present record stands in the Hospitals section.

The training center, announced: A joint Mishawaka police and fire training center, on city-owned property beside the Mishawaka Organic Center, was announced in the mayor's address of 30 April 2026 with a completion spoken of for late 2026. No completion stands verified in the record reached as this section closes; it prints as announced, with its announced date now at hand — a fast mover, flagged in this section's note for re-verification before anything built on this portrait goes to press.

The auto campus: On the north side, the Gurley Leep Auto Campus — a 70-acre ground on Cleveland Road at the Toll Road, for which the Common Council declared an Auto Mall Economic Development Area in February 2026 — broke ground on 27 April 2026: eleven automotive brands, a collision center and a public car wash in the published plan, with completion announced for October 2027. The dealership record stands in the Dealerships section; the campus prints here as the city's largest commercial build in flight, at announced size.

Woodfield Crossing: At McKinley and Byrkit Avenues, Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County broke ground in August 2026 on Woodfield Crossing — a $27 million workforce-housing neighborhood on the cleared nine acres of the former Oak Grove Mobile Home Park, funded with $2 million from the city and $2.6 million in READI grants. Two tellings of its size print together, unreconciled: the groundbreaking account itemizes 21 townhomes, eight two-bedroom cottages, 16 single-family houses and two duplexes — 47 structures — and gives completion as "by next November," November 2027; the mayor, in April, spoke of housing for "over 60 families." The itemized account and the mayor's phrase are both carried; the difference is named, not averaged.

The state road and the sewers: Two infrastructure works close out the list at their documents' strength. The Indiana Department of Transportation's resurfacing and curb-ramp project on Indiana 933 — Lincoln Way, Mishawaka's own corridor — began 18 May 2026 and runs from Indiana 331 to Ash Road in Osceola, with construction expected through November 2026: in its announced final month as this section closes. And the city's own Long Term Control Plan works — the Linden Area division's Phase II, storm and sanitary sewers, watermain and street reconstruction west of Byrkit — carry in their contract documents a substantial completion of 31 October 2026 and a final completion of 25 November 2026: the first date at hand, the second a dated future two weeks out.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, 16 March 2026 — the Hums Elementary construction update to the school board of 11 March 2026 (the $41 million project; phase one finishing late May 2027; students in August 2027; demolition phase June–August 2027).
2. Saint Joseph Health System — release of 20 August 2026 (the $25 million Cancer Center; some 25,000 square feet at 611 East Douglas Road; renovation and construction to begin fall 2026).
3. South Bend Tribune, 2 May 2026 — the mayor's address of 30 April 2026 (the joint police–fire training center beside the Organic Center, completion spoken of for late 2026; the Gurley Leep Auto Campus, ground broken 27 April 2026, eleven brands, completion October 2027; Woodfield Crossing spoken of as housing for over 60 families).
4. South Bend Tribune, 13 August 2026 — Habitat for Humanity's Woodfield Crossing groundbreaking (the $27 million project; the itemized 47 structures; $2 million city funding and $2.6 million READI; completion "by next November").
5. Mishawaka Common Council minutes, 2 February 2026 — Resolution R2026-03, the Auto Mall Economic Development Area at 14325 and 14233 Cleveland Road and the Toll Road.
6. South Bend Tribune, 14 May 2026 — the Indiana Department of Transportation's Indiana 933 project (beginning 18 May 2026; Indiana 331 to Ash Road; construction through November).
7. City of Mishawaka Utility Board contract documents, Linden Area Long Term Control Plan Division M — Phase II (substantial completion 31 October 2026; final completion 25 November 2026), as carried in the project's published bid record.