PORTAGE — The underutilized open-air pavilion near Ogden Dunes could be turned into one of Northwest Indiana’s first makerspaces.
City Council Vice President Scott Williams, D-3rd, persuaded the Redevelopment Commission to look into the feasibility of dedicating the rarely used park property to a site for woodworking, metalworking, jewelry-making, welding, 3D printing and similar uses.
“It establishes Portage as a makerspace pioneer,” he said.
“Wow, man. What a scene. You can’t make up what we see out here on any given day,” Hobart patrol officer Tommie Tatum said.
A nonprofit would be formed to operate the South Shore Makers Lab facility.
The former U.S. Steel training facility has 8,000 square feet enclosed and another 8,000 under a roof but without…
