Land gift preserves spot in Indianapolis suburbs
FISHERS, Ind. — A land trust is taking over a 40-acre wooded property to protect it from development in the midst of two fast-growing suburbs just north of Indianapolis.
The donation to the Central Indiana Land Trust comes from farmer Van Eller, who lived most of his life on the land now surrounded by Fishers and Carmel subdivisions before he died last year at age 89.
The land trust estimates the property’s value at $2 million. It is next to the 77-acre Wapihani Nature Preserve that Eller and another landowner sold to the trust at a discounted price in 2008.
Longtime friend Daryl Brown tells The Indianapolis Star that developers made many offers to buy the land until finding out that he didn’t need to or want to sell the property.
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