The Muncie Neighborhood Investment Committee is turning abandoned buildings into sources of income for the city.
Officials presented the Muncie Urban Revitalization Program on Tuesday.
John Fallon, one of the Ball State representatives in the committee, said in his presentation that there are 4,500 abandoned homes in Muncie, which is 14 percent of the city’s housing stock.
They are using the redone buildings for side lots, community gardens and orchards, neighborhood pocket parks, urban revitalization programs, live/work spaces and MRS residential programs.
Some Ball State initiatives, like the Makers District, fall under the live/work spaces category, and is a part of the plan to rebuild Muncie.
Megan Quirk, one of the Ball State representatives in the committee, said their goal for this project was to try to figure out a way to turn the abandoned buildings into a productive use.
“If you get a person individually rehabbing a house, they would start paying property taxes on it immediately,” Quirk said.
Muncie mayor Dennis Tyler said it is difficult to get the abandoned properties in order to transform them. He wants to get the buildings back to the local people so they can do the right thing with them.
“I’m not interested in Muncie making one penny off of this,” Tyler said. “I’m interested in turning these properties into something we can be proud of.”
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