The two parks: Innovation Park and Ignition Park as technology real estate, and the EKI tenant statement

ITEM 9 · 2009–PRESENT · BOUNDARY: SOUTH BEND / NOTRE DAME

The two-parks pattern exists whole in this county — as a single state-certified technology park in two sites, both outside this CDP, with a tenant record that can be read whole:Ignition Park (the Sample Street site, some 140 acres on the Studebaker ground) took the graduates: its first business opening was Data Realty in fall 2012 (the $14.2 million, ~45,000–50,000-square-foot Tier III data center at 1440 Ignition Drive — the city record's sizes print as given), followed by the Notre Dame Turbomachinery facility and Great Lakes Capital's Catalyst One and Catalyst Two (2015), into which Aunalytics, Data Realty and MicroIntegration moved in the spring of 2016. Together the two sites form Indiana's first two-site certified technology park, the city's and university's combined investment standing at $56 million in the 2012 file ($33.5 million university and IU; $22.5 million city). That is the tenant record, and it is South Bend's.

Granger's equivalent prints as a tenant statement, because that is what the record supports: the ground's one technology real-estate seat of scale is the Microsoft EKI campus on Cleveland Road (banked whole in businesses), and its tenant record is a single line — one tenant, the owner itself, a hyperscale campus of ~929 acres with no incubator, no tenant roster, and no graduation path, the opposite of the two parks' churn in every particular. The proposed Capital Avenue EDA carried in the banked businesses and government record is a tax-increment and development district, not a technology park, and no tenant record attaches to it in the record reached. The finding prints plainly: this county built its technology real estate as parks in the city and as a campus in the township, and the two forms share nothing but the fiber that serves them both.

Sources:

1. City of South Bend, certified-technology-park recertification application, November 26, 2012 (docs.southbendin.gov) — Innovation Park's 35 businesses / 81 employees / $4.7 million payroll; the $15.8 million facility; Data Realty's relocation to Ignition Park and its facility figures as printed there; the $33.5 million / $22.5 million investment split.
2. City of South Bend releases, February 9, 2011 and April 23, 2012 (Resolution 4174-12) — Data Realty at 1440 Ignition Drive; the two-site certified park.
3. South Bend Voice, October 15, 2014, and South Bend Regional Chamber, June 15, 2016 — Turbomachinery and the Catalyst buildings; the 2016 tenant moves.
5. Banked Businesses — the EKI campus whole; the Capital Avenue EDA course.