Editing Munster, Indiana (section)

==Businesses and attractions==
[[File:Three Floyds Distillery.JPG|thumb|left|The newest addition to the [[Three Floyds Brewing|Three Floyds Brewing Company]] is the distillery.]]

The town is home to a number of local, regional and national companies and extensive community resources. Among them are the Community Hospital, the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, ''[[The Times of Northwest Indiana]]'' newspaper, a [[PepsiCo]] bottling and distribution facility, a [[Whole Foods Market]] distribution center, the Community Veterans Memorial, the LEED-certified Centennial Park and Golf Course, Kaske House Museum at Heritage Park, Bieker Woods Nature Area, eleven miles of bike paths, an innovative Public Art and Sculpture Program, the new Munster Music Festival, the Munster Centennials Vintage Baseball Team, and the Babe Ruth Baseball.

Munster is also home to the [[Three Floyds Brewing|Three Floyds Brewing Company]], a microbrewery and [[craft beer]]-drinker's destination noted for its "Dark Lord Day" event, which draws 6,000 people every April.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/04/26/three-floyds-evil-genius/|title=Three Floyds: Three Floyds takes the cult of craft beer to new levels|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/lake/19757775-418/beer-aficionados-revel-in-dark-lord-day.html|title=News - Post-Tribune|access-date=May 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510031602/http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/lake/19757775-418/beer-aficionados-revel-in-dark-lord-day.html|archive-date=May 10, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Lake Business Center===
[[File:Homewood Suites in Munster, IN.jpg|thumb|[[Homewood Suites by Hilton]] is one of several new additions to the Lake Business Center.]]

In spring 2011, Simborg Development revitalized plans for a $60 million renovation of the 72-acre Lake Business Center site fronting Calumet Avenue that will open new commercial opportunities for the Town of Munster. This development, originally to be named Munster Town Center that would have created a mixed-use center of retail shops and restaurants, commercial offices, medical facilities as well as an extended-stay hotel, was modified to maintain the warehouse facility and maintain a high-tech image exterior for the development.

A [[Homewood Suites by Hilton]] hotel anchors the north end of the development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/new-hotel-opens-on-munster-s-growing-calumet-corridor/article_df216488-e862-56cb-bed0-368a2b99b6a9.html|title=New hotel opens on Munster's growing Calumet corridor|author=Andrea Holecek - Times Correspondent|date=May 20, 2016|work=nwitimes.com}}</ref>

===Centennial Village===
One of Munster's newest redevelopment projects is the area immediately surrounding the former Munster Steel site, located to the north of the town's Centennial Park.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/munster-steel-breaks-ground-on-new-facility-in-hammond/article_f42e4ad5-fb7e-5b17-9320-4a17a8ee21f7.html|title=Munster Steel breaks ground on new facility in Hammond|date=October 9, 2013|work=nwitimes.com}}</ref> The area, named "Centennial Village," will be a mixed-use [[transit-oriented development]] that will feature both retail and multi-unit residential housing once it is completed.<ref name=trib>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/news/ct-ptb-munster-project-funding-st-1016-20151015-story.html|title=RDA approves funding for Munster project|author=Chicago Tribune|date=October 15, 2015|work=Post-Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/rda-board-approves-m-to-munster-project/article_725caf51-a901-53b5-93a6-955d6ad0498c.html|title=RDA board approves $6M to Munster project|author=Deborah Laverty - Times Correspondent|date=October 15, 2015|work=nwitimes.com}}</ref> The Calumet Avenue [[grade separation]] has been planned since the early 1940s, with [[Henry Ford]] leading the change. However, American involvement in World War II and the creation of the federal highway system stopped these plans until the present day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/munster/future-clearer-for-calumet-avenue-overhaul-in-munster/article_1185b777-dd69-53b1-b82e-4e9a260b0e25.html|title=Future clearer for Calumet Avenue overhaul in Munster|author=Lu Ann Frankllin - Times Correspondent|date=September 4, 2013|work=nwitimes.com}}</ref>

The project will be completed in two phases; it is part of the larger 45th Avenue/Calumet Avenue underpass and realignment project in which Phase 1 includes extending 45th Avenue east into the Centennial Village development with two new stoplights and creating an underpass under the [[Canadian National Railway|Canadian National]] railroad tracks to align with 45th at Columbia Avenue. Meanwhile, Phase 2 includes creating an underpass at Calumet Avenue.<ref name=trib/> So far, Phase 1 has been completed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://regionnewssource.org/watch-now-munster-opens-45th-underpass/|title=Munster Opens 45th Underpass|website=Region News Source}}</ref>