Parts maker Lippert Components has offered to buy a piece of land owned and marketed by the Allen County Redevelopment Commission.
The Journal-Gazette reports that the commission today will consider a purchase agreement for $670,000 for about 52 acres of land along South Ryan Road from the rapidly expanding Elkhart company
Elissa McGauley, director of county redevelopment, said Monday she did not know Lippert’s plans for the site. Lippert officials could not be reached Monday for comment.
Located at the southeast corner of South Ryan and Edgerton roads on the east side of New Haven, the site abuts Superior Aluminum Alloys and was deemed “certified site ready” in 2013 by the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership. The land has been in the redevelopment commission’s hands since 2011.
The tract is zoned intensive industrial, the least restrictive industrial category. Allowed uses at the site include fabricating, manufacturing, processing, extraction and heavy repair and dismantling operations needing outside operations or storage.