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Members of the Northwest Regional SWAT and Gary SWAT teams gathered in full riot gear Wednesday and waited behind shields just outside the entrance to the shuttered former Majestic Star Casino Hotel in Gary.
A Chicago-based logistics and outdoor storage firm redeveloped a 22-acre site at Melton Road and Ripley Road in Gary's Miller neighborhood to serve as a secured semitrailer parking facility that also will be home to a trucking school. Transport Properties, which operates 26 facilities across the Midwest, invested $6 million in the new trucking center that was spurred by the growth of e-commerce. The St. Lawrence Seaway â a system of 15 locks between Montreal and Lake Erie that allows ocean-going vessels to make their way to the Great Lakes â has reopened for a new navigation season....