Downtown Muncie: Many Hands Tackle Heavy Work
By: Ty Morton— To many folks in Muncie, particularly those downtown, the past seventeen months may have seemed like an eternity; but they will have yielded decades of improvement in business development and quality of life. It all began with fulfilling a federally-mandated requirement from 1972 that our combined storm and sanitary sewer lines be separated, ending the result of sewage overflow being discharged into the White River, following rainstorms. Later, other federal requirements, such as public access under the ADA, were becoming unavoidable issues. While these were expensive propositions unto themselves, visionary community leaders saw within them an opportunity: Sure, for…
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