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1970 – PRESENT
The first apartment building in the record stands on a mansion's lot: two blocks east of the renewed downtown core, the Mix Mansion — the Dodge president's house — was razed in 1968 to make way for the 114-unit 500 Lincoln Way East Apartments, which opened in 1970 for low-income seniors. It is the first purpose-built apartment complex the record reached documents in Mishawaka: the city's housing had run from plats of single-family lots — the four plats, the additions, Normain Heights, Reverewood — and the apartment form arrives in the record as senior housing on cleared renewal ground, not as a speculative corridor. The corridor apartment era that followed elsewhere in the city — the Douglas Road and Grape Road complexes of the later twentieth century — is not documented at leg strength in the record reached, and it is named here as a gap: the settling sources are the city directories' apartment listings and the Tribune's development record, and this section does not sketch the corridor from leasing brochures.
The apartment's second arrival was a return: to the Ball Band ground downtown, where the Ironworks phases of 2019 and the mid-2020s put 226 further apartments, in the second phase alone, on the works' own footprint — the mill-neighborhoods entry above carries that course. Between 1970 and 2019 the documented apartment story of Mishawaka is therefore two downtown bookends and an undocumented middle, and the file prints it at exactly that shape.
Sources
- Peter J. De Kever, Mishawaka: A History (city-commissioned) — the Mix Mansion razing of 1968; the 114-unit 500 Lincoln Way East Apartments, opened 1970 for low-income seniors.
- RE Journals (rejournals.com) — the Ironworks phases, as cited in the mill-neighborhoods entry.