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Levee area, Chauncey Hill Mall redevelopment plans start to emerge in West Lafayette

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Levee area, Chauncey Hill Mall redevelopment plans start to emerge in West Lafayette

As West Lafayette, Purdue scramble on housing crunch, plan surfaces for major project near State St./River Road. New owners hint at something coming for Chauncey Hill Mall. Plus, a hotel in Levee area

Dave Bangert
Feb 9
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Levee area, Chauncey Hill Mall redevelopment plans start to emerge in West Lafayette

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Thanks to the Builders Association of Greater Lafayette for sponsoring today’s edition. The Builders Association of Greater Lafayette will host its annual Home Building & Remodeling Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds. Admission: $5.


Some potential blockbuster development news is starting to emerge in West Lafayette’s downtown and Levee area.

In play:

  • New ownership for Chauncey Hill Mall at the top of State Street hill, where two other large-scale redevelopment plans have faltered in the past six years on the prime piece of ground so close to Purdue’s campus.

  • A major – and long-rumored – redevelopment plan for the northeast corner of the State Street and River Road intersection, which would mean relocation plans for some local favorites and would mark the beginning of a grid street plan called for in the Levee area in West Lafayette’s three-year-old downtown plan.

  • And a proposed hotel on Brown Street, near Levee Plaza.

“A lot happening, that’s for sure,” Ryan O’Gara, assistant director of the Area Plan Commission, said. “Big, big stuff.”

Here’s a look at just how big, starting with …

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