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Poor soil conditions found in the Rum Village Industrial Park are also present <br />in the Sample- Indiana industrial corridor. The muck lands and water table conditions <br />run from the Rum Village Industrial Park on a diagonal from southwest to northeast <br />into this sub -area. Trucking and heavy industrial uses found on the west side of Olive <br />Street also continue into this sub -area. <br />Moving east through the corridor into the Walnut Street - Prairie Avenue sector, <br />the land uses remain the same with large parcels of land devoted to heavier industrial <br />uses, including scrap and salvage yards, warehouse /distribution and wholesalers. <br />Given the type of land uses and the fact that every community needs sections devoted <br />to heavier industries and economic activities that might not match uses within planned <br />industrial and business parks, it is suggested that this area's predominant land use and <br />economic activity remain the same. The sub -area strategy would focus on creating <br />and improving the edges and boundaries of this corridor to protect and screen the <br />adjoining areas. Other elements of the strategy include: improving the internal <br />circulation system by upgrading the street system; removing incompatible land uses; <br />creating incentives or using the police powers of the community to stimulate business <br />and property owners to clean up the worst areas of their land; developing more <br />stringent standards for screening, hours of operation and mitigating the most <br />obnoxious externalities from scrap, salvage, trucking and related activities. <br />Two sites within this sub -area warrant additional discussion. The first site is <br />the existing Indiana Vocational - Technical College on the 1500 block of West Sample. <br />The second site is the former White Farm manufacturing complex located on Chapin <br />Street. The vocational - technical college's existing facility and site is inadequate for <br />the community's needs. A new campus is being considered for a twenty -five acre site <br />in the Southeast Neighborhood. Should this plan come to fruition, the adaptive re -use <br />of the current facility and site will become an important element in the planning for <br />this sub -area. <br />The White Farm industrial site within this sub -area contains thirty -five (35) <br />acres and fronts on Chapin Street. This former manufacturing complex has <br />approximately 900,000 square feet of manufacturing, warehouse, and office space in a <br />number of buildings. Only two of the buildings could be considered economically <br />and physically viable for purposes of adaptive re -use. These two buildings include <br />the office space currently housing the County Department of Welfare and a 290,000 <br />square foot, five -story warehouse facility. Any plan for the re -use of the complex <br />would require the acquisition and clearance of much of the site. New infrastructure <br />and a revised circulation plan would be required to redevelop the site as an inner -city <br />light industrial area (similar to the Monroe Industrial Park). However, the site has <br />some significant advantages, assuming there are no significant environmental <br />problems. These positives include a central location within the Urban Enterprise <br />-33- <br />5/21/93 <br />