Plans for the 343-acre tech park in Ellettsville have been discontinued.
Mike Farmer, town manager, said the two parties involved, Digital Resources, Inc. and Umbarger Farms, couldn’t come to terms on buying the land by the stated deadline. Farmer did not know when that deadline was but said it has passed.
Some citizens were concerned about the lack of transparency on project specifics. It was also unclear how much noise the tech park might have made.
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Land for the park had already been annexed into town limits. Officials also recently rezoned the 343 acres. The land had been considered agricultural. Now that the land has been rezoned as light industrial, it allows buildings related to manufacturing and technology.
Farmer hopes something else will be developed on that site sometime in the future.
“In the last three years, I’ve had information that would indicate that a solar farm was interested in being there, a hog farm, a life science project and a tech park,” he said. “But up until now, no one has made something happen.”
Farmer said he expects a crop of either beans or corn on the land next year.
“We hope to see something land there...We’re patient.”
No changes have been announced for the Matson Farms and Technology Park, a different tech park that would include retail and manufacturing space.
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