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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg touted the Biden administration's infrastructure efforts during his visit to Gary on Wednesday.
The former South Bend mayor and one-time presidential candidate started a two-day tour of his former home state by meeting members of the United Steelworkers with U.S Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will visit Gary on Wednesday as part of a tour of industrial sites and infrastructure projects in the Hoosier State.
The former South Bend mayor will be joined by U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, for a visit to the Gary/Chicago International Airport, where he also will meet with members of the United Steelworkers. Buttigieg and Mrvan will be joined by Gary Mayor Jerome Prince and Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner Michael Smith at a press conference.
The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission will receive $70,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration to assist in developing strategies for its administration of the three-county Economic Development District created in 2019.
On Monday, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced a federal grant award for the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC) under the Economic Development Administration (EDA) Economic Development District Planning program.
A $70,000 federal grant, announced recently by U.S. Rep Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, will enable a four-year-old economic development program to continue its work in Northwest Indiana.
The grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, part of the Department of Commerce, will support the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission’s economic development program.
The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission will receive a $70,000 federal grant to help develop and implement a comprehensive economic development strategy.
The Economic Development Administration's Economic Development District Planning program grant targets the counties of Lake, Porter and La Porte counties. NIRPC was designated an EDA in 2019.
The Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department will receive $247,200 from the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced the grant from a program intended to aid firefighting and emergency operations and safety.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan announced a federal grant awarded to the Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Chesterton department will receive $247,200 to improve operations and safety, equip and train emergency personnel, and enhance operational efficiencies.
The program‘s goal is to help firefighting and emergency response teams meet their service goals.
A project to turn the abandoned Gary Union Station into a "Fiber Smart House" officially broke ground Wednesday. When complete, the building will serve as a fiber access point, as well as a technology training center and business incubator.
Gary leaders gathered on Wednesday to celebrate the start of an $8 million dollar construction project that will turn the city’s long-abandoned Union Station into a state of the art fiber optics hub and training facility.
The development is the latest step in a yearslong effort to see the derelict building rehabilitated. First opened in 1910, the train station received rail passengers until it was shuttered in 1971 and has sat disused ever since, becoming a favored haunt of urban explorers.