Itâs an effort that other communities in northeast Indiana could consider copying. In June 2019, when Kendallville announced the launch of a new blight-elimination effort, one of the key pieces of that effort was the establishment of Kendallville Restorations Inc., a non-profit that would work to purchase at-risk properties in key neighborhoods and fund work to fix up the homes and resell them to new, caring owners. Since then, Kendallville Restorations has been working quietly to improve houses along the Main Street corridor in some of Kendallvilleâs older neighborhoods. More recently, however, the group teamed up with the building trades students enrolled at Impact Institute and allowed those trades students to get involved with ongoing work at two improvement projects happening.