Gary, Indiana-Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson joined Gary Housing Executive Director Julian Marsh and HUD Midwest Regional Administrator Joseph P. Galvan today to kick off demolition at two of Gary’s Housing Developments. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded over $3.2 million to the Gary Housing Authority earlier this year to demolish Delaney West […]

The Community Development Department is requesting bids for home rehabilitation work at a selected location.   The rehabilitation work to be performed under the Department’s Owner Occupied Rehabilitation Program will be funded with HOME Investment Partnerships funds. The HOME funds will be provided as a grant to owner-occupied Gary residents with income at or below […]

Gary, Indiana-Today, Dr. Peggy Hinckley, Gary Schools Emergency Manager presented a plan to the Distressed Unit Appeals Board that included closing Wirt/Emerson School for Visual and Performing Arts.   Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said, “While I join members of the community in their disappointment in hearing this recommendation, it does not come as a surprise.  Quite […]

In 2012, our administration developed and presented a comprehensive plan to the Gary Common Council to handle the city’s waste stream. The objective was to reduce costs to the city and citizens and to generate dollars where appropriate. There are a number steps that have been taken to implement that plan over the last 6 […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 18, 2017 GARY AMAZON PROPOSAL IN ROUTE TO AMAZON Gary, Indiana-Today, Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson unveiled the box containing a copy of the city of Gary’s response to the Amazon Request for Proposals regarding the location of a second headquarters in the United States.  Freeman-Wilson displayed a box in her office containing […]