Today: We bring you the second of three finalists for the Knight Cities Challenge from the city of Gary: the Ball Park Plaza project. It was submitted by the late Kenneth Parr and now taken over by the city of Gary. We talked to both Brenda Scott-Henry, the city's Director of Environmental Affairs, and Renetta Dubose, the step-daughter of Kenneth Parr, about a project that would take a city-owned lot across from the U.S. Steel Yard baseball stadium and transform it into an outdoor entertainment venue and multi-purpose site. Renetta talks about her step-father's vision for the site as a native of Gary.
Indiana political analyst Andy Downs joins us about a recent local political campaign committee report that is raising eyebrows -- one which Downs says doesn't meet the "smell test."
And the President and CEO of the Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors, Peter Novak, talks about the region single-family home sales reports for December and the year of 2016. Both look good, and Novak also looks at how new home construction figures into the report as well.
