Insull interests built the 11th Street Station in central Michigan City in May 1927[2] as a pioneering piece of multimodal public transportation infrastructure.

To make up for the closure of the station building, NICTD set up a small passenger shelter[7] at the end of the adjacent parking lot, near the 11th Street/Pine Street intersection.

However, its location provided convenient access to the retail, art galleries, and restaurants of the surrounding Uptown neighborhood, as well as walkable access to bus stops for all of the Michigan City Transit routes, Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets, cultural attractions, and the Washington Park beach.

[13] The 11th Street station was rebuilt at approximately the same location and includes high-level platforms capable of accommodating eight-car trains.

In doing so, Michigan City and NICTD indicated their interest in seeing developer construct a mixed-use development that would include intermodal hub featuring 426 parking spaces, a passenger waiting area, and a train stop for the South Shore Line, ideally with the original station building's facade being restored and reinstalled.

The RFP specified that the project could be as many as ten floors high and needed to be finished by the expected May 2024 completion of the South Shore Line double track construction.

[15][16][17] On February 23, 2022, it was announced that Michigan City and NICTD had reached an agreement with Flaherty & Collins Properties for an $80 million mixed-use development.

The development is slated to break ground in the summer of 2023, open its transit center by May 2024, and finish construction on its apartments by the spring of 2025.

[18][19] In addition to the new intermodal hub development, since the start of construction of the double tracking project (expected to lessen the commute between Michigan City and Chicago to roughly an hour, removing roughly 30 minutes from the commute time),[8][15] numerous planned developments have been announced in Michigan City.