COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (WANE) — In an unusual move, Columbia City made its first official announcement about a new large-scale city project in a rather innocuous Facebook post.
It describes a lease agreement for “an outdoor amphitheater” that has no name yet, but for those paying attention, it is a project the city has been discussing for quite some time.
“Back in 2020, we created a master park plan. As a part of that plan was a skate park, which is directly to my right, some different family swings, some pickleball courts, that’s behind me, but ultimately right where we’re standing, and a little bit behind us will be a new amphitheater,” said Mayor (R) Ryan Daniel.
The park plan shows the amphitheater right in the middle of a busy development, which is currently a large field framed by the skatepark and some benches. The former site of the Columbia City High School is now Eagle Park, a partially finished vision…