On the SK hynix front: Piling work starting, court filings ramp up
There’s been a lot of action this week where the $3.87B semiconductor site is concerned.
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ON THE SK HYNIX FRONT: PILING WORK STARTING, COURT FILINGS RAMP UP
There’s been a lot of action this week on the SK hynix front …
Work date set on the next stage of construction
The city of West Lafayette this week flagged the next stage of work coming north of Kalberer Road on SK hynix’s $3.87 billion facility that one day is expected to assemble high-bandwidth memory chips for the AI market.
The city posted that work on pilings for the facility’s foundations would start April 17, nearly two months after fencing started going up and earth-moving began at the 100-plus acre site between Yeager Road and County Road 50 West.
Kanga Kong, a spokesperson for SK hynix, said the work would take several months and was tied to building permits the South Korean company received from the city in January. Those three permits included $98 million worth of foundation work for an office building, the company’s fab/manufacturing facility and a central utility building, all along the Yeager Road side of the project, according to city records.
“This activity, running concurrently with site-grading process, is part of our site preparation prior to actual vertical construction in coming months,” Kong said this week.
According to city records, as of Thursday, SK hynix didn’t have the building permits needed for construction beyond the foundations. The company has a separate permit from the city to install a $1.2 million temporary power facility that will be used during construction that’s expected to last until late 2028.
The city’s heads up about the pilings work on its WLmoves.com site said sound barriers have been installed along the site and that all work would comply with the city’s noise ordinance.
The company did not respond to questions about whether there were concerns about pouring concrete while a pair of lawsuits challenging SK hynix’s choice of sites continue to wind through Tippecanoe Circuit Court.
Which gets us to …
SK hynix, Purdue Research Foundation and city push back on efforts to block construction
In a court filing this week, the company, the city and PRF – which owned the land where the semiconductor facility is going – asked a judge to reject a motion for a hearing to stop construction happening now.
