Feds confirm: Offloading coming for Halleck Building in downtown Lafayette

Plus, a quick peek at today’s opening of Cason Family Park. Bids come in under control on WL’s Public Safety Center after tariff concerns. Art project aimed over North River Road. And more.

FIRST UP: A QUICK PEEK AT CASON FAMILY PARK, OPEN TODAY

West Lafayette opened Cason Family Park during drizzly ceremonies Thursday morning. Touted as the first major park for the city in 30 years, the 28-acre site along Cumberland Avenue includes several playgrounds, wooded trails, a pond for fishing and kayaking, all centered on a one-room 19^th century schoolhouse the city and volunteers worked to save, move and preserve nearly a decade ago. “Cason Family Park has been a long time in the making,” Kathy Lozano, West Lafayette parks superintendent, told a crowd numbering in the hundreds Thursday. “And it represents the best of what a community can do when it works together.”

Read more about how it all came together in Friday’s Based in Lafayette.

(Photos: Dave Bangert)

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UPDATE: THE FATE OF THE HALLECK FEDERAL BUILDING

After the U.S. Postal Service let customers know last week that it was looking for a new home for its downtown Lafayette branch, with a lease in the Halleck Federal Building coming to a close in the near future, federal officials confirmed this week that they were looking to offload the building opened at the corner of Fourth and Ferry streets in 1932.

In a statement to Based in Lafayette, U.S. General Services Administration said: “The Charles A. Halleck Federal Building is vacant except for USPS, and we are working through the disposition process with transfer to another federal agency or governmental body, a public sale or sale leaseback as possible outcomes.”

(Photo: Dave Bangert)