On March 13, 2009 the Indiana Economic Development Corporation certified the Santa Claus Industrial Park as a “Shovel Ready” site for industrial development.

The Town of Santa Claus Industrial Park was first developed in the 1970s, at which time one manufacturing facility was constructed in the park.  That facility, now a subsidiary of Kimball International, continues to expand, and has been recently joined by one warehousing facility and one Toyota supplier, Curtis Maruyasu America. 

The Town owns the entire undeveloped portion of the Industrial Park, excepting one small tract which also is available for sale.  The Town has been and remains committed to developing the park, and will sell any and all tracts or parts of tracts.  Because the Park has been declared an Economic Development Area, we have in the past and will dispense with the normally required competitive bidding process required to sell municipal property in favor of an appraisal-sale of property under I.C. 36-1-11 in the most expedited manner possible to industries needing to locate here.

Water and wastewater service in the Park is supplied by the Town of Santa Claus.  Water is supplied by 8 and 12 inch water mains with current water supply capabilities of approximately 1.3 MGD.  Fire hydrants are in place, spaced according to Ten State Standards.  Wastewater collection service is carried out utilizing 8” VCP pipe.  Design capacity of the Wastewater Treatment Plant is 1.17 MGD, with current flows at .3 MGD.

Vectren has a 3-phase, 12.5 Kv transmission line with a substation approximately 1 mile from the Park.  Vectren may have ED Rider available for those wishing to locate in the Industrial Park.  This would discount the cost of power for a two year period. 

Community Natural Gas has a distribution station located at County Road 475 E and State Road 162 that provides service for the towns of Santa Claus, Lincoln City and Gentryville.  This is a 2” high pressure line maintaining an operating capacity 200 psig.  The line connects into the Town Border Station located at 600 E (Kaspar Drive).  From this border station there is a 6” line maintaining an operating capacity of 50 psig. 

PSC serves the Industrial Park with Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), which is a high-speed data service that is provided over an analog telephone line.  They can provide DSL speeds at a rate of 1.5 Mbps, but on an individual case basis higher speeds may be available.  PSC has a completely redundant 10Gb Fiber Core through northern Spencer, Perry, and Dubois counties.  Through Fiber-To-The-Premise (FTTP) technology, they offer speeds up to lGbps to customer through native Ethernet connectivity.  They can also supply traditional analog telephone service and tariff digital services. 

Hoosier Southern Railroad currently accesses the Industrial Park with a 1.2 mile spur by which they are providing service to one customer.  They are in a position of provide service to additional customers.  They have access and control of the Ohio River port in Tell City.  The port is approximately 18 miles from the beginning of the Industrial Park spur.  They interchange with Norfolk Southern in Lincoln City, slightly over two miles from the junction of the spur. 

For additional information concerning the Town of Santa Claus Industrial Park, contact Russ Luthy at 812-544-3329, extension 2, or email to questions@townofsantaclaus.com.