During ceremonies at Purdue, SK hynix CEO says West Lafayette facility will be ready October 2028, as local and state officials put high hopes on $4B project leading to broader ‘ecosystem’
It's ceremonial. The folks invited weren't out pouring concrete and probably don't have too many callouses on their hands from shovel work.
Still, it's a big deal and worth a ceremony. $4 billion in investment and thousands of jobs. Even assuming some of those numbers are inflated, this will add a new pillar to the economy of Tippecanoe County - supplementing Purdue, Subaru, Caterpillar, Wabash National, Evonik, and so forth.
"Daniels said. 'I think our goal is to make life very difficult for (West Lafayette) Mayor (Erin) Easter to help provide housing and services and so forth...'"
Interim Purdue President Mitch Daniels once again displays his "sense of humor' showing but little sympathy for the SPLASH that has now landed to the immediate north,east, and south of neighborhoods, a childhood center, and, fortunately, an expanded fire station. What passes for amusement to the "development crowd" is collateral repercussions to very real human beings and voters, whether NIMBY or not.
My bigger problem is with the NIMBYs and historical preservation types who are going to gum up the works, driving out the young and thwarting thoughtful growth. Growth will still happen, but their sour legacy will be sprawl.
Mitch was poking WL in the eye about the need to house all these 1000 employees. He is, as you say, trying to make a joke out of collateral repercussions, which I assert is the sign of a humorless jerk.
GJones reminded me that WL has problems accommodating growth on the other end of town, near Purdue, and of an earlier jerky comment Mitch made that implied bigger freshman classes are on the way. We will soon be back to hearing from NIMBYs on that end of town who complain about historical preservation, blithely unaware of the privilege they are bludgeoning younger, poorer people with.
I do not think of the SK lawsuit people as NIMBYs, because the chemical safety issues they raise are area-scale and could affect ask of us. (I think that is unlikely, but what do I know? Especially given the secrecy.) The other problems (noise, traffic, home values) resemble complaints in the near-Purdue neighborhood, but they have an infuriating overlay that SK did not HAVE to move into a residential area. I do not believe for a second that it was the only suitable site (A or B). All of these SK problems are elective and seemingly unnecessary in a way that does not apply to near-Purdue neighborhoods. Purdue was there first and it requires that many people live near it.
In my view it is important to densify near Purdue to avoid a city planning disaster. That just has to happen, and the people who will be displaced need to be lavishly compensated.
Many SK backers talk about how much moooooney is involved. Great, but irrelevant. It would have been just the same economic impact if we located SK somewhere near the airport (Evonik works, right?).
WL is getting squeezed at both ends, in short, so to continue your musical metaphor perhaps it's an accordion tune? This message is a tedious polka that should end abrup
The "just do it by the airport" talk has kind of baffled me. You think they're just lying when they said there wasn't a suitable site? There was a good site but they just built it up north for the giggles?
I think we can agree that nobody outside the company knows the answer to that question. I think we can agree there is a ton of land to the west and north of the airport. I think we can agree that they were fine with either site A or site B, suggesting that there is not something special about either one. I think we can agree that, lawsuits and community opinion notwithstanding, it's going to be where they are building it. We might even agree that the company did not elaborate in any detail on why other sites would be unacceptable, and even that, given the fury of local reaction, it was odd that they were not forced to do so.
I will always be puzzled about why they built it in that location, away from major roads and in the logical path of residential growth. Yeah, I don't buy that there was no other site that would work and therefore suspect that undisclosed motivations exist. Unlike many of my neighbors, I am glad it's being built in greater Lafayette. I think it will enrich the city, literally and because it and its suppliers will attract other interesting businesses. I don't begrudge all the real estate types making a buck off it. We will need them to build houses someplace else for all these folks, add they need the dough. It's just in a weird place.
Well, now I am getting your message(s) sort of, I think.
1. We both agree on Intermim President Daniels so-called "sense of humor"
2. Now, as for the other end of town. New Chauncey neighborhood. Some of it surely historically predated Purdue. Old family-owned neighborhoods eventually became pressed into student-housing and more recently to erractically-managed Air BnB's (plenty of dollars for investors, but headaches for stable neighborhoods.)
3. We agree about the real concerns of those bringing the hopeless suits against the gargantuan momentum and actual gigantic construction going on in the northern part of town. Those people have legitimate concerns which may have more universal implications.
4. I agree that densification near Purdue should be taking place. I see that in River Rambler, the Edge, the Hub, New Chauncey Mall or whatever that high-rise next to Von's calls itself-plus all the new homes west part of the city: Plus there are more Weida built apartment complexes and some new ones planned south on River Road and Tapawingo South. And Purdue has been building huge dorms on McCormick Road. Will they all be enough. Don't forget there is possibly more housing coming on the other side of the Wabash--John Purdue Block. And even the woe-begotten Waterfront Condos on the west side of the Wabash River are being rejuvenated.
5. I fear, as you probably do as well, that some of this new housing is not student-friendly and out of their price range. I think that is why the City Council is beginning to wonder how much of a "supposedly good thing" is really that, at all.
5. I think you can sense that I am highly suspicious of whatever claims Chamber of Commerce types, Purdue Research Mafiosos, and Governor Mike Braun make about Nirvana not just around the corner but right next door!!
6. I like accordion music. Beer and Polkas. We need more of that.
Groundbreaking? Kind of looks like ground was broken several months ago.
It's ceremonial. The folks invited weren't out pouring concrete and probably don't have too many callouses on their hands from shovel work.
Still, it's a big deal and worth a ceremony. $4 billion in investment and thousands of jobs. Even assuming some of those numbers are inflated, this will add a new pillar to the economy of Tippecanoe County - supplementing Purdue, Subaru, Caterpillar, Wabash National, Evonik, and so forth.
This is great. Putting Indiana at the forefront of this industry and WL at the center!
Amazing. Hopeful for attract more similar businesses.
"Daniels said. 'I think our goal is to make life very difficult for (West Lafayette) Mayor (Erin) Easter to help provide housing and services and so forth...'"
What a complete and utter weenie.
Interim Purdue President Mitch Daniels once again displays his "sense of humor' showing but little sympathy for the SPLASH that has now landed to the immediate north,east, and south of neighborhoods, a childhood center, and, fortunately, an expanded fire station. What passes for amusement to the "development crowd" is collateral repercussions to very real human beings and voters, whether NIMBY or not.
Better than population declines. Check out Muncie, Anderson, Kokomo
Yeah, okay. You got me there.
I respect that you didn't play the Gary card.
My bigger problem is with the NIMBYs and historical preservation types who are going to gum up the works, driving out the young and thwarting thoughtful growth. Growth will still happen, but their sour legacy will be sprawl.
Wait, so you are now playing another tune? Where are these 'Historical preservation types" of which you write? Are any of them in the two law suits?
Mitch was poking WL in the eye about the need to house all these 1000 employees. He is, as you say, trying to make a joke out of collateral repercussions, which I assert is the sign of a humorless jerk.
GJones reminded me that WL has problems accommodating growth on the other end of town, near Purdue, and of an earlier jerky comment Mitch made that implied bigger freshman classes are on the way. We will soon be back to hearing from NIMBYs on that end of town who complain about historical preservation, blithely unaware of the privilege they are bludgeoning younger, poorer people with.
I do not think of the SK lawsuit people as NIMBYs, because the chemical safety issues they raise are area-scale and could affect ask of us. (I think that is unlikely, but what do I know? Especially given the secrecy.) The other problems (noise, traffic, home values) resemble complaints in the near-Purdue neighborhood, but they have an infuriating overlay that SK did not HAVE to move into a residential area. I do not believe for a second that it was the only suitable site (A or B). All of these SK problems are elective and seemingly unnecessary in a way that does not apply to near-Purdue neighborhoods. Purdue was there first and it requires that many people live near it.
In my view it is important to densify near Purdue to avoid a city planning disaster. That just has to happen, and the people who will be displaced need to be lavishly compensated.
Many SK backers talk about how much moooooney is involved. Great, but irrelevant. It would have been just the same economic impact if we located SK somewhere near the airport (Evonik works, right?).
WL is getting squeezed at both ends, in short, so to continue your musical metaphor perhaps it's an accordion tune? This message is a tedious polka that should end abrup
The "just do it by the airport" talk has kind of baffled me. You think they're just lying when they said there wasn't a suitable site? There was a good site but they just built it up north for the giggles?
I think we can agree that nobody outside the company knows the answer to that question. I think we can agree there is a ton of land to the west and north of the airport. I think we can agree that they were fine with either site A or site B, suggesting that there is not something special about either one. I think we can agree that, lawsuits and community opinion notwithstanding, it's going to be where they are building it. We might even agree that the company did not elaborate in any detail on why other sites would be unacceptable, and even that, given the fury of local reaction, it was odd that they were not forced to do so.
I will always be puzzled about why they built it in that location, away from major roads and in the logical path of residential growth. Yeah, I don't buy that there was no other site that would work and therefore suspect that undisclosed motivations exist. Unlike many of my neighbors, I am glad it's being built in greater Lafayette. I think it will enrich the city, literally and because it and its suppliers will attract other interesting businesses. I don't begrudge all the real estate types making a buck off it. We will need them to build houses someplace else for all these folks, add they need the dough. It's just in a weird place.
To borrow from Shawshank, "get busy living or get busy dying."
Well, now I am getting your message(s) sort of, I think.
1. We both agree on Intermim President Daniels so-called "sense of humor"
2. Now, as for the other end of town. New Chauncey neighborhood. Some of it surely historically predated Purdue. Old family-owned neighborhoods eventually became pressed into student-housing and more recently to erractically-managed Air BnB's (plenty of dollars for investors, but headaches for stable neighborhoods.)
3. We agree about the real concerns of those bringing the hopeless suits against the gargantuan momentum and actual gigantic construction going on in the northern part of town. Those people have legitimate concerns which may have more universal implications.
4. I agree that densification near Purdue should be taking place. I see that in River Rambler, the Edge, the Hub, New Chauncey Mall or whatever that high-rise next to Von's calls itself-plus all the new homes west part of the city: Plus there are more Weida built apartment complexes and some new ones planned south on River Road and Tapawingo South. And Purdue has been building huge dorms on McCormick Road. Will they all be enough. Don't forget there is possibly more housing coming on the other side of the Wabash--John Purdue Block. And even the woe-begotten Waterfront Condos on the west side of the Wabash River are being rejuvenated.
5. I fear, as you probably do as well, that some of this new housing is not student-friendly and out of their price range. I think that is why the City Council is beginning to wonder how much of a "supposedly good thing" is really that, at all.
5. I think you can sense that I am highly suspicious of whatever claims Chamber of Commerce types, Purdue Research Mafiosos, and Governor Mike Braun make about Nirvana not just around the corner but right next door!!
6. I like accordion music. Beer and Polkas. We need more of that.
re: 6. Amen. I am so ready for Germanfest.