{"id":26595,"date":"2023-04-07T02:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2023-04-08T02:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T02:37:39","slug":"26595","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/2023\/04\/07\/26595\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitestown Announces Plans for Aquatic Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26597\" src=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-1024x342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-1536x513.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-696x232.jpg 696w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-1068x356.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner-1259x420.jpg 1259w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whitestown-Pool-Wrecks-Inc-Full-Banner.jpg 1693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><strong>April 7th, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Town of Whitestown has announced plans to proceed with the construction of an aquatics facility at the former Wrecks Inc. automobile junkyard along Indianapolis Road.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">THE PROCESS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/whitestown.in.gov\/government\/boards-commissions-committees\/town-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitestown Town Council<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;will consider authorizing the first steps towards a public-private partnership for the project, including the adoption of the build-operate-transfer (BOT) process at its next&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/whitestown.in.gov\/event\/town-council-meeting-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;on Wednesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. The BOT model is used to finance and operate large publicly-owned projects through a public-private partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The Town will first invite proposals, and then after public input, the Town Council will select a private partner for the facility. The selected partner will be expected to construct and then operate and manage the facility while the Town will retain ownership of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, the Town has worked to ensure that the environmental issues on the former Wrecks property were addressed, and in late 2022 the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) issued a Certificate of Completion for the site.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">FUNDING<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The aquatics facility is expected to be funded through revenue generated as a direct result of Whitestown\u2019s industrial and commercial growth, such as tax increment financing (TIF), which means there will be no increase in property taxes.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">TIMELINE<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Town intends to break ground in late 2023 and be fully operational by 2025. Additional amenities will be added to the site as the other phases of the project are built.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">STAY TUNED<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>More information will be shared on this website as the project progresses. 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GOTO Facebook and &#8220;LIKE&#8221; our Page! Thank You!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>Content Via:<br \/>\nTown of Whitestown<br \/>\nThe Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 7th, 2023 The Town of Whitestown has announced plans to proceed with the construction of an aquatics facility at the former Wrecks Inc. automobile junkyard along Indianapolis Road. THE PROCESS The&nbsp;Whitestown Town Council&nbsp;will consider authorizing the first steps towards a public-private partnership for the project, including the adoption of the build-operate-transfer (BOT) process at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general-interest","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26599,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions\/26599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}