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Chicago-based Wylie Capital plans to develop a 1.2 million square foot data center at Broadway in Merrillville that could result in $600 million in investment and up to 200 mostly six-figure jobs. The development could see up to six buildings, each up to three stories tall, developed.
The Merrillville Data Advisory Center gave preliminary approval to the development in October 2024. The first phase would see two buildings developed.
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| 1.66 miles | Karis: Merrillville Expansion | |
| 1.66 miles | Karis: Merrillville Campus |
Set on a 180-acre site on 101st Avenue east of Deep River, the campus could total nine buildings, each costing $100 million.
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| 2.10 miles | Province Group: Merrillville Tech Park |
The development plan includes the construction of four buildings, each spanning 250,000 square feet and ranging from one to two stories in height.
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| 4.39 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to invest $15 billion in Hobart, Indiana, to develop a massive data center campus.
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| 4.49 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 4.61 miles | Hobart Devco: Hobart 5 |
This planned facility will be part of Hobart Devco, LLC's Hobart Campus in Indiana.
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| 4.66 miles | Hobart Devco: Hobart Campus |
Hobart City Council unanimously approved the first reading of a rezoning ordinance on Wednesday, clearing the path for a new data center on a 168-acre site on 61st Avenue.
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| 4.72 miles | Hobart Devco: Hobart 2 |
This planned facility will be part of Hobart Devco, LLC's Hobart Campus in Indiana.
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| 4.73 miles | Hobart Devco: Hobart 6 |
This planned facility will be part of Hobart Devco, LLC's Hobart Campus in Indiana.
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| 4.79 miles | Hobart Devco: Hobart 3 |
This planned facility will be part of Hobart Devco, LLC's Hobart Campus in Indiana.
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| 4.85 miles | Hobart Devco: Hobart 4 |
This planned facility will be part of Hobart Devco, LLC's Hobart Campus in Indiana.
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| 7.97 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 14.03 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Amazon is building a new $87 million data center in Portage. The location is confirmed as the AmeriPlex at the Port business park north of Interstate 94 and south of the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan.
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| 16.08 miles | Provident: Chesterton, IN |
The Provident Realty Advisors' data center was a controversial $1.3 billion proposal for a major technology campus planned for the site of the former Brassie Golf Club in Chesterton, Indiana.
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| 16.28 miles | Provident: Burns Harbor, IN |
Provident Realty, a Texas-based developer, plans to construct up to seven data center buildings across a 102-acre site in Burns Harbor, Indiana, currently owned by Worthington Steel.
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| 16.81 miles | Agincourt: Valparaiso, IN |
The Valparaiso data center proposal has been withdrawn due to significant public opposition voiced at a City Council meeting.
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Wylie Capital is a real estate investment and development company focused on opportunistic and value add projects that generate outsized returns for high-net-worth individuals, family offices and select institutional investors. WC has acquired $180 million of commercial property to date, and currently has a 4 million SF development pipeline of industrial and residential projects in Illinois, Indiana and North Carolina.
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