An historic downtown Terre Haute building will soon become a business hub for West Central Indiana.
Work is slated to start Feb. 1 on transforming the first two floors of the former Hulman and Co. building at Ninth Street and Wabash Avenue into a one-stop business hub.
It’s part of the Wabash River Regional Development Authority’s plan announced in June that divided $20 million in state grant funds among 23 projects in the Wabash Valley.
A $500,000 READI grant was slated to establish a West Central Business Hub. That grant will be matched with $500,000 of local funds.
Bidding on the improvement work will be held in January, as part of the READI grant, said Brian Kooistra, executive vice president of Gibson…
