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Downtown Development, 1969

By OSP

Fort Wayne Reader

2011-03-07

Another one from the archives. With last month’s news that the residential/retail phase of the Harrison project was moving forward, we thought it would be interesting to revisit a different sort of downtown development project 40+ years ago. It’s also a bleak and chilly-looking picture, which suits the season. Anyway, this wasteland of dirt and snow would eventually become the City-County building, and those steel girders in the background would grow up to become the Fort Wayne National Bank building.