The Vanderburgh County Redevelopment Commission (VCRC) called its meeting to order at 1:17 PM on July 15, 2026, in Room 301 of the Civic Center Complex in Evansville, Indiana. Members present were Bill Nix (President), Dave Clark (Secretary), and Jeff Hatfield. Hobart Scales and Logan Bitter were absent. Attorneys Mike Schopmeyer and Craig Emig were also present, and a quorum was confirmed. The commission approved the prior meeting minutes, heard the Old Farm Reserve development presentation, held a public hearing with no speakers, and unanimously approved two resolutions related to the University Parkway Economic Development Area.
Good afternoon. Like to call all the uh board of uh Vandenberg County Redevelopment Commission um July 15, 2026 at uh 117. We're just a few minutes late getting started today, so uh I'd like to first call the meeting to order and uh we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance. The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it's the end one is understanding okay. Is there an approval for the May 13, 2026 uh meeting memorandum? Uh I make a motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Oppose, same sign, thank you. Let the record reflect we have uh three members present. Bill Nix, Dave Clark, and Jeff Hatfield. Um an error uh on our part. Everyone's here except the people that were most important to the process, although we have talked about this project for for a long time. So it's just for the public's uh education. There's been a lot of back and forth on the project, but we we lined everyone up. There's probably 20 here, and uh somehow or another we didn't get it on the most important five members, but fortunately all of them or three of them are here. We have a quorum. So let the record reflect that. Okay, we'll get started uh uh old farm reserve development presentation. Start off or first of all, if you would uh name and address for the record, please. Sure. David Allstad Jr. Uh go by Chip. I live at 12825 Apache Pass, Hankinsville, Indiana, 4772. So thanks for having me here today. Uh obviously been here quite a few times over the past few months. Uh we're in a process of developing uh 110 acres uh on University Parkway close to USI. Uh we've got roughly 70 acres uh that are intended for residential homes, 10 acres that will be used for multi-family, 240 unit apartment complex, and we've got about 30 acres of commercial development as well that'll be up front on the parkway. Um if you wouldn't mind if if you can maybe click through some slides. So on that previous slide there, we've got shooting for 163 residential lots, again the 240 apartments. Okay. You'll see here obviously the area on our left represents the residential area, the kind of light green area on the on the top there to the north. That will be the lot uh for the 240 uh apartment units, and then obviously the darker green space is the commercial commercial lots up front. Okay, you can go ahead. Okay. So this just represents the multifamily uh these renderings. You know, we're still working through some of the you know some of the designs on that, uh, but we've been pretty heavily involved in that. Um we're to the point that uh we should have drawings together here real soon. So we've been spending a lot of time getting our designs and layout the way we want them, and it won't be long we'll be able to go out to bid for this here. Okay. So this here, this is and this is really close, but this is the layout on the multifamily for the apartments. Um the area to the to the right is the rosner. Um right now Rosner comes straight through. We are looking at um reworking the roadway. Uh we have to get that approved yet, but in a perfect world, we're able to kind of reroute Rosner around the multifamily to keep all the buildings uh within the same, you know, on the same side of the road. And then on the bottom side of this page is the new roadway that that we will be installing. It'll be kind of the main roadway that runs through the property from east to west. Okay. That's it.