39 acres. 18 buildings. Zero jobs. How Electric Works came back.
One redevelopment, read the way Cividian reads a site: what sat idle, what the evidence said, how the capital was stacked, and what reopened. Scroll to move through the four stages.
Electric Works · Fort Wayne, Indiana
One redevelopment, read stage by stage
01 / The site sits idle
39 acres. 18 buildings. Zero jobs.
GE closed the Fort Wayne campus in 2015. At its peak the plant employed as many as 10,000 people. For years the question was not what it could become, but whether anyone could prove it.
02 / Read the evidence
Every claim gets a source first.
Parcel records, historic designation, tax-credit eligibility and a peer-ranked market grade, gathered before the first dollar moves. Gaps stay visible as gaps.
03 / Stack the capital
$286 million. Twenty sources.
Phase one combined $48.5 million in federal historic tax credits, $53.3 million in New Markets Tax Credits, $53.3 million in state credits, $61.2 million in municipal funding, a $65.7 million construction loan and $27.3 million in equity.
04 / Reactivate the place
700,000 square feet, back on the grid.
Phase one opened 69 percent pre-leased. Do it Best moved about 425 employees to campus in December 2022, joined by a food hall, a health clinic, coworking and a public high school.
Illustrative AI sequence of the Electric Works campus, generated with Higgsfield. Not photography. Figures: Urban Land Institute, Electric Works.
The same read, on your site
Electric Works needed proof before it needed capital: parcel records, historic designation, tax-credit eligibility and a peer-ranked market grade, gathered before the first dollar moved, with every gap left visible as a gap. A Cividian site brief assembles that first read for any address and carries it into a project you can share.
The sequence is an illustrative AI rendering of the Electric Works campus, generated with Higgsfield. It is not photography. Figures: Urban Land Institute, Electric Works.
