$8 million investment aims to transform Gary’s shuttered Union Station into tech hub

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Gary’s derelict Union Station is being reinvented as a “Fiber Smart House” courtesy of a $8 million renovation project that will break ground on Wednesday.

Slated to open in the fall of 2024, the facility will provide technology training and education to local residents, according to a joint statement from telecommunications firm Digital Equity, LLC and the city of Gary. It will also provide fiber access point for large networks, and serve as a business incubator and networking hub for local companies, nonprofits, and higher education institutions.

Designed by the architect M.A. Lang, Union Station opened in 1910, just four years after the city was founded. It was shut down in the 1950s and has not been maintained in the decades since. Weather and vandalism have left the building’s interior badly damaged, but its walls, which are made of steel-reinforced concrete, have endured.

 

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