Out of the APC last night …

Some big projects – the 344-acre Millbrook, WL’s public safety center, Purdue’s Squirrel Park redesign – moved ahead, and one that died just saved a local business. Plus, TSC's teachers of the year.

It was clear sailing Wednesday for several large projects up for Area Plan Commission consideration – including one that simply disappeared as pressure mounted to save a southern Lafayette business. Here’s a quick rundown.

MILLBROOK, NEAR THE SK HYNIX PROPOSED SITE: The APC recommended approval of a series of rezoning requests for Millbrook, a 344-acre residential and neighborhood business project just north of West Lafayette proposed by Estridge Homes, a Carmel-based builder. Estridge is looking to build up to 771 single-family homes, starting at $400,000 and ranging up to $1 million, along with between 400 and 500 multifamily units over the next decade north of the Purdue Research Park to County Road 500 North, stretching from County Road 50 West to Morehouse Road. The mix is expected to include townhomes, based on the zoning proposals. The company’s designed include what it calls a development heavy on amenities, with several pools, parks, trails and ballfields. Clint Mitchell, CEO of Estridge Homes, recently told Based in Lafayette that the development would be similar to projects it’s done in Westfield and would be aimed, in part, at people who work in Greater Lafayette but now live and commute from suburbs closer to Indianapolis. “Great things are happening, obviously, with Purdue and the Purdue Research Park,” Mitchell said. “And, of course, in the past year, the SK hynix announcement. Even before that, it seems like a very underserved housing market.” For more details on the project, here’s a BiL interview with Mitchell from March. The Tippecanoe County commissioners are scheduled to consider final approval on the five rezoning requests connected to the development at 10 a.m. May 5 at the County Office Building, 20 N. Third St. in Lafayette.

The proposed layout of Millbrook. (Map via APC)

PLANS IN PURDUE’S SQUIRREL PARK: New zoning near the corner of Airport Road and Mitch Daniels Boulevard would clear the way for a $4.2 million redesign of Squirrel Park, next to the Beck Barn being relocated and reassembled as part of Purdue’s Discovery Park District.