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Co. Committee To Look At Intermodal
Officials to start advisory task force to ensure ‘transparent’ process in development.

Laurie Wink
The News-Dispatch

LA PORTE - An advisory task force is being created to help county officials evaluate prospective developers and sites for an intermodal freight terminal in La Porte County.

County Commission President Barbara Huston said in a press release Friday the commissioners are developing an "orderly and fair process" that would involve public input. The task force will have 15 to 20 members.

The convergence of rail lines, coupled with closeness to major interstate highways, has positioned La Porte County as a prime location for a facility that could create jobs and boost economic development. It would serve as a place where cargo is transferred between trucks and trains.

Two railroad companies are said to be eying locations here, but are saying little publicly about their plans. Some property owners have said they have been approached by a real estate company that has been buying options on farmland in southern La Porte County.

"We will put a very public, transparent process in place to evaluate developers and sites before we ever give approvals to anyone," Huston said.

Huston said the county has received multiple inquiries from real estate firms, venture capital groups, railroads and real estate investment trusts interested in prospective county locations. She said county attorney Shaw Friedman and county economic development coordinator Matt Reardon will coordinate contacts and issue a request of interest to identify serious proposals.

Her own preference is to use the Kingsbury Industrial Park as the site of the intermodal facility, but she and the other commissioners are open to all possibilities, she said.
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southsider2k7   Intermodal facility being explored   Aug 20 2007, 01:01 PM
Roger Kaputnik   What is needed is open, public meetings announced ...   Aug 21 2007, 09:43 AM
southsider2k7   I can tell you from experience that even the publi...   Aug 22 2007, 07:40 AM
Roger Kaputnik   It might be different if things were decided in op...   Aug 22 2007, 11:57 AM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...;Arti...   Aug 23 2007, 08:00 AM
mcstumper   Realistically, how much new construction can even ...   Aug 23 2007, 08:40 PM
mcstumper   Realistically, how much new construction can even...   Aug 24 2007, 01:57 PM
JHeath   I know that it's important to maintain the far...   Aug 24 2007, 08:38 AM
southsider2k7   Well you have just hit on the flip side of the big...   Aug 24 2007, 08:55 AM
JHeath   And yet, these same NIMBY folks are the same peopl...   Aug 24 2007, 09:15 AM
TRAILCREEKKID   And yet, these same NIMBY folks are the same peop...   Aug 24 2007, 10:58 AM
JHeath   The issue with Kingsbury is the potential for expo...   Aug 24 2007, 11:57 AM
TRAILCREEKKID   The issue with Kingsbury is the potential for exp...   Aug 24 2007, 06:18 PM
mcstumper   I really don't know. In any event, we mustn...   Aug 25 2007, 07:01 AM
southsider2k7   Actually my feeling, for once, pretty well follow ...   Aug 24 2007, 12:23 PM
JHeath   I think credit should be given where it's due....   Aug 24 2007, 12:30 PM
mcstumper   When I think of the potential new jobs from this t...   Aug 24 2007, 02:11 PM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Aug 27 2007, 12:43 PM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Aug 27 2007, 12:45 PM
mcstumper   "It was learned by many at Monday night's...   Aug 27 2007, 09:11 PM
Ang   Of course, Ken doesn't post here, so who exac...   Aug 27 2007, 10:26 PM
southsider2k7   That's okay Stumper, the rest of us are liste...   Aug 28 2007, 06:20 AM
JHeath   This just makes me wonder if Scott Ford is also pl...   Aug 27 2007, 02:50 PM
JHeath   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Aug 27 2007, 03:01 PM
JHeath   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Aug 28 2007, 01:32 PM
JHeath   http://heraldargus.com/hanews/archives/ha/...y.php...   Aug 29 2007, 10:04 AM
Roger Kaputnik   Two things: How can public servants sign confiden...   Aug 30 2007, 07:46 AM
southsider2k7   Rog, I believe this is the article you are looking...   Aug 30 2007, 08:06 AM
mcstumper   Rog, I believe this is the article you are lookin...   Aug 30 2007, 03:45 PM
southsider2k7   Wow... wacky stuff. First off, as I have said b...   Aug 31 2007, 07:08 AM
Ang   Nice Soundoff letter in the ND site SS'der   Aug 30 2007, 11:58 AM
southsider2k7   I do like discussions with people I do not agree w...   Aug 30 2007, 12:05 PM
Roger Kaputnik   "I was Bush's bitch and that's what I...   Aug 31 2007, 06:52 AM
mcstumper   "I was Bush's bitch and that's what ...   Aug 31 2007, 10:47 AM
southsider2k7   http://www.wndu.com/news/headlines/9537132.html   Sep 4 2007, 07:32 AM
southsider2k7   http://heraldargus.com/archives/ha/display.php?id=...   Sep 4 2007, 01:11 PM
Roger Kaputnik   La Porte Co seems like an ideal location. I have ...   Sep 4 2007, 01:26 PM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Sep 5 2007, 11:36 AM
Max Main   Isn't Scott Hamilton the skater? A smatteri...   Sep 7 2007, 08:08 AM
JHeath   Isn't Scott Hamilton the skater? :lol: :...   Sep 7 2007, 08:11 AM
Ang   Isn't Scott Hamilton the skater? You...   Sep 7 2007, 11:38 AM
JHeath   You're thinking of Dorothy Hamilton. No, he...   Sep 7 2007, 12:44 PM
Ang   No, he was right. Scott Hamilton was a male olym...   Sep 13 2007, 09:48 AM
southsider2k7   http://www.post-trib.com/business/546456,intermoda...   Sep 7 2007, 12:04 PM
southsider2k7   Looks like the "Mitch Daniels was Right...   Sep 12 2007, 12:58 PM
Roger Kaputnik   SISOC said its members intend to "prevent the...   Sep 13 2007, 07:45 AM
southsider2k7   They are worried only about themselves. They don...   Sep 13 2007, 09:10 AM
JHeath   Over the weekend, I was discussing this concept wi...   Sep 13 2007, 09:41 AM
Roger Kaputnik   I think the greatest unfiled class action lawsuit ...   Sep 17 2007, 07:06 AM
Ang   I heard about one in MN where a daughter sued her ...   Sep 17 2007, 08:59 AM
JHeath   Just in case anyone has an extra $250 burning...   Sep 17 2007, 09:12 AM
southsider2k7   A letter to the editor from the mayor himself... ...   Sep 17 2007, 11:42 AM
Ang   A letter to the editor from the mayor himself... ...   Sep 17 2007, 03:54 PM
mcstumper   Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................. :c...   Sep 17 2007, 08:41 PM
JHeath   I agree. I generally am a Chuck supporter, but i...   Sep 18 2007, 08:53 AM
southsider2k7   Also here is a great editorial from the ND http:/...   Sep 17 2007, 11:51 AM
Roger Kaputnik   I think you are thinking of his HEAD being somewhe...   Sep 19 2007, 11:12 AM
JHeath   I think you are thinking of his HEAD being somewh...   Sep 19 2007, 09:14 PM
JHeath   http://www.heraldargus.com/archives/ha/display.php...   Sep 25 2007, 11:54 AM
JHeath   http://www.heraldargus.com/archives/ha/display.php...   Sep 25 2007, 11:56 AM
southsider2k7   Jobs "starting out at" $12-13 an ho...   Sep 25 2007, 12:04 PM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...26...   Sep 26 2007, 01:11 PM
JHeath   Did they really think that there would be 10,000 t...   Sep 27 2007, 10:28 AM
southsider2k7   10,000 day! That is 416.67 trucks an hour, or...   Sep 27 2007, 10:55 AM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Sep 27 2007, 12:29 PM
Roger Kaputnik   Is the distribution center on 421 and 6 a small mo...   Sep 28 2007, 07:20 AM
southsider2k7   Is the distribution center on 421 and 6 a small m...   Sep 28 2007, 07:31 AM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Oct 5 2007, 01:03 PM
southsider2k7   I will admit, I want to see the intermodal built h...   Oct 8 2007, 09:06 AM
Roger Kaputnik   Beware of false dichotomies.   Oct 8 2007, 02:03 PM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Oct 12 2007, 07:51 AM
southsider2k7   This one ought to get some angry letters rolling i...   Oct 12 2007, 12:55 PM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Oct 15 2007, 09:28 AM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Oct 15 2007, 09:34 AM
Roger Kaputnik   If that land is so-called heritage land, it is ess...   Oct 15 2007, 09:47 AM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...;Arti...   Oct 18 2007, 10:59 AM
Roger Kaputnik   What do they need ANY money for???   Oct 18 2007, 11:33 AM
southsider2k7   http://heraldargus.com/archives/ha/display.php?id=...   Oct 19 2007, 02:16 PM
lovethiscity   LaPorte County has a special way of attracting the...   Oct 21 2007, 07:33 PM
southsider2k7   LaPorte County has a special way of attracting th...   Oct 22 2007, 09:13 AM
Roger Kaputnik   I did not think that the Intermodal would actually...   Oct 22 2007, 10:41 AM
southsider2k7   I did not think that the Intermodal would actuall...   Oct 22 2007, 10:43 AM
lovethiscity   Second stage of growth would invovled manufacturi...   Oct 23 2007, 08:47 PM
Roger Kaputnik   I do not see manufacturing taking off in LP county...   Oct 24 2007, 10:53 AM
southsider2k7   We don't have the labor force to go high-tech....   Oct 24 2007, 10:55 AM
Roger Kaputnik   Transportation hub seems like all we will get out ...   Oct 24 2007, 11:29 AM
southsider2k7   Its a start. And I really do think other industry...   Oct 24 2007, 11:39 AM
lovethiscity   Its a start. And I really do think other industr...   Oct 24 2007, 08:42 PM
southsider2k7   An interesting overview that sort of fits with som...   Oct 24 2007, 01:47 PM
southsider2k7   http://heraldargus.com/archives/ha/display.php?id=...   Oct 24 2007, 02:17 PM
southsider2k7   http://heraldargus.com/archives/ha/display.php?id=...   Oct 24 2007, 02:20 PM
mcstumper   So the sentiment at this board generally is that u...   Oct 24 2007, 06:30 PM
southsider2k7   So the sentiment at this board generally is that ...   Oct 25 2007, 08:58 AM
JHeath   That may be the sentiment of others on this board,...   Oct 24 2007, 08:31 PM
Mr. Mark S. Lindborg   Something of magnitute needs to be addressed by mo...   Oct 24 2007, 10:47 PM
mcstumper   Something of magnitute needs to be addressed by m...   Oct 25 2007, 09:30 PM
Roger Kaputnik   I would like to know more about the intermodal and...   Oct 25 2007, 11:34 AM
Roger Kaputnik   Sez you. In a statement yesterday, the mayor of...   Oct 26 2007, 07:35 AM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;T...   Oct 26 2007, 11:50 AM
southsider2k7   http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio......   Oct 29 2007, 11:39 AM
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