Brownsburg Closer to 3rd Interchange

INDOT and FHA give approval for next phase of I-74 interchange in Brownsburg.

Brownsburg has moved one step closer to getting approval for a third interchange on Interstate 74. The first and only interchange for several decades is at Green Street just north of the center of town. Shopping and restaurants located around the Green Street interchange thereby extended the town limits north of the interchange.

The most recent interchange at Interstate 74 and the Ronald Reagan Parkway opened up to traffic in July of 2008. It is located about three miles east of the Green Street interchange.

The area around that interchange is just now starting to develop. Hendricks Regional Hospital opened a full service hospital at the interchange in 2016 and has recently expanded that campus.

Meijer will be opening a new supercenter store just north of the interchange this year. The extension of the Ronald Reagan Parkway into Boone County is likely to bring more development along that corridor.

The new interchange being proposed is approximately one and half miles to the west of the Green Street interchange. The Indiana Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration has given Brownsburg the approval to move forward to the next phase of obtaining approval.

This next phase is to study the environmental impact of the project including a noise study. This phase will also look at how to mitigate any environmental or noise impacts to the community and will take one year or more to complete.

According to Town of Brownsburg’s Community Relations Manager Shelby Abner the reason the town proposed the new interchange to INDOT is to relieve the congestion that occurs along Green Street during rush hours.

The west side of Brownsburg has been exploding with residential, commercial and industrial growth over the last 15 years. Residents, shoppers, and workers currently use the Green Street exit to get to their westside destinations. The new interchange will take commuter and truck traffic out of the center of town thereby alleviating the congestion currently on Green Street.

An alignment of exactly where the exchange will be built and the design of the interchange are currently being worked on.