LaPorte is getting a $1 billion Microsoft data center. The $1.3 billion data center that had been proposed for Chesterton is now off the table. So why one and not the other?
LaPorte Mayor Tom Dermody is gung-ho toward growth and development. He’s eager to see the city grow in population as well as tax base.
Chesterton residents got wind of the data center project that had been proposed for the shuttered Brassie Golf Course and organized opposition. Provident Realty Advisors, which had hoped to build a data center on the site, has moved on, canceling a planned June 19 public forum on the project.
The Chesterton Town Council issued a lengthy statement on the now-defunct proposal. “It is important to understand that the town of Chesterton did not go to Provident. Provident came here,” the statement said.
Heather Ennis, president and CEO of the Northwest Indiana Forum, said at least…
