Parkview Heights Rehabilitation on Mayor’s Radar

Parkview Heights Construction copy
Photo courtesy of the Starke County Public Library

Knox Mayor Dennis Estok wants to revive a once proud Knox neighborhood. Parkview Heights was built in 1941 by the Federal Works Agency Division of Defense as worker housing for employees of the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant. During World War II the LaPorte County site was one of the largest shell-loading plants in the nation. Continue reading