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This ground's industrial-fame location is a farm that changed owners. In June 2024 Microsoft bought 929 acres of farmland at 52682 Currant Road — the St. Joe Farm, at the northwest corner of Bittersweet and Cleveland roads — for a reported 77.5 million dollars, and in May 2025 the county rezoned 40 more acres along Cleveland Road to add to the site. The fame mechanism is not a product made here or a sign written for airplanes; nothing on this ground answers to the Studebaker tree-sign test, and no signature objects were made here whose present home a museum could be named for. The mechanism is scale plus name: one of the world's most valuable companies chose this townships' farmland for a data-center campus of five or six buildings, with 250 to 300 acres discussed for conservation easement or green zone, power from American Electric Power and water and sewer from Mishawaka — and the fame is therefore prospective and contested, drawing county-council letters, community meetings, and an organized opposition, while the campus remains in design, with vertical construction spoken of for the year after the May 2026 community event. As a location it is treated here, not as a business entry: the ground itself is the famous thing, famous before it operates. The companion claim is dispelled at the same size. AM General's headquarters is not and was not on this ground: the company is headquartered in South Bend, at 105 North Niles Avenue, where it moved in February 1990, and its Humvee plant stands in Mishawaka, at 13200 McKinley Highway, where production began in the fall of 1984. Copies that seat AM General in Granger seat it in the wrong place twice over — wrong city for the office, wrong city for the plant.
Businesses EKI entry (929 acres, Cleveland/Currant); South Bend Tribune reporting, June 2024–February 2026 (purchase price and acreage; 52682 Currant Road; rezoning of 40 additional acres, May 2025; design phase, community event of May 19; AEP service; Mishawaka water and sewer; conservation acreage); Data Center Dynamics report of the rezoning; Arts (the copied AM General headquarters claim, dispelled); South Bend Tribune record via ProQuest (AM General headquarters moved to 105 N. Niles Ave., February 1990) and the company's published record (headquarters South Bend; Mishawaka assembly plant, production from fall 1984).