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Dan Ridenour
We're looking at doing affordable housing, mid-level housing and expensive housing, and that's how our city's going to grow, in my opinion.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
In his second state of the city address, Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour talked about changing Muncie’s image, becoming a solar city with a new solar energy project, focusing on improving many of the city's parks, and having good places for people to live. Ridenour has been paying attention to the local housing market and says this year is too slow.

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Dan Ridenour
I talked to a realtor last night and she told me that there are only 99 listings in the whole county, 99 so it's difficult to get people to move here if there's no place to move.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Recently, the city announced two new housing projects. Ridenour says two more are in the works, and a high end apartment complex being built along the river wants to begin its second phase, building a second four story complex across from City Hall at the Wheeling Avenue Bridge. To Ridenour, it's all about attracting more economic development to the area.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
It's those discussions he was disappointed to see slow down in 2020 due to Covid 19.

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Dan Ridenour
And then by summer they were gone. Everybody was saying, well, we'll wait till next year. We'll see when it gets better. We'll see if they develop a vaccine.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
In addition to housing, Ridenour’s administration will continue to push through several city park renovations a year. Among the goals are to have four splash pads throughout town for residents to use. In Muncie, Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.