Developers plan 5-story lofts next to Imagination Station

Project would put 56 apartments, condos along Fourth Street, north of downtown. Plus, animal sanctuary owners try to bring facility into compliance near West Lafayette, over objections of neighbors

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A few takeaways/a few projects worth knowing about at last week’s Area Plan Commission meeting …

IMAGINATION LOFTS, NEXT TO IMAGINATION STATION: An empty, former gas company site north of Imagination Station, combined with lots near Fourth and Wall streets, are pegged for a two-site planned development centered by a five-story building with 56 apartments and 1,200-square-feet of ground floor commercial space just north of downtown Lafayette. The project, called Imagination Lofts, also would include six townhouse-style condominiums at the corner of Fourth and Wall streets.

A sketch from Imagination Lofts plans. (Source: APC)