Side Lot Program

If you live next door to an empty lot/parcel owned by the City of Gary that also qualifies as a "side-lot", you may be eligible to acquire that lot!

To learn more about the program and how to apply, please review the following documents and follow the directives therein.

• Side Lot Program - Information Sheet and Application Form (2024)

To view a list of available lots, download Eligible Side-Lot Program Parcels (2024).

The City of Gary Redevelopment Commission is the public custodian of municipal land. To inquire about the purchase, transfer, or sale of public land please call our offices at 219-886-1531.

Gary Counts

Gary Counts houses the City of Gary’s data initiatives, like the Gary Parcel Survey, a city-wide survey of the community’s physical environment as a means to locate and remove blight for redevelopment purposes, allowing for curious residents and community members to analyze municipal data sets and develop applications focused on blight elimination efforts.

The Gary Parcel Survey is the result of a collaboration between the City of Gary, the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, and non-profit Local Data. Results are interactive and available for download.

We are presently working on updates to this data throughout 2023.

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