VALPARAISO – Prime Real Estate has opened a Valparaiso office, its third. The office is on the second floor of Buffalo Wild Wings, 212 E. Lincolnway. The office is at 212 E, Lincolnway and it is managed by broker Valerie Kubacki. Prime Real Estate has offices in Chicago and Schererville and expects to open two […]
PORTAGE – Ratner Steel Supply of Minnesota has announced it will build a 100,000-square-foot building at the Port of Indiana to product cut-to-length steel products. The company will buy coil steel from area mills. The building is expected to be completed by the end of this year with production to begin in 2013. By 2014,
HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet and Tri-State Industries Inc. have formed a partnership that allows students to receive real world robotic experience. The partnership could eventually include internships to train engineering students how to program robots for manufacturing use. Tri-State has formed a new division to handle its rapidly expanding robotics business. The company buys
GARY – Gary Jet Center at Gary/Chicago International Airport has opened a new $5 million, 40,000-square-foot hangar. The hangar was designed by the Lee Co., which has applied for LEED designation for the building, which would certify it as a green project and environmentally friendly. Jet Center owner Wil Davis said the new hangar was
MICHIGAN CITY – KTR Corp., a manufacturer of power transmission components, will invest $1.6 million to upgrade its Michigan City operation on Anchor Road. The company will install new computer equipment and machinery, and upgrade its 42,000-square-foot warehouse and production plant. The German-based company, which has 43 employees, said the project should be completed in
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SOUTH BEND – Dr. Suhayl Nasr, the medical director of the Epworth Center at Memorial Hospital, has been named a distinguished fellow by the American Psychiatric Association. Distinguished fellow is awarded to outstanding psychiatrists who have made significant contributions to the psychiatric profession at least five area – administration, teaching, scientific and scholarly publications, volunteering
PORTAGE – The Ross Group has been named one of the top 10 builders in the country by Ceco Building Systems. The Ross Group is owned by Ross Pangere and has been involved with several projects in the region including the Monosol building in LaPorte, I/N TEK in New Carlisle, Round the Clock Restaurant in
GARY – Superior Construction Co. Inc. is marking its 13th year of safe operations at the BP Whiting Refinery. Employees of the Gary-based construction company have put in more than 15 million work hours at the refinery without a single lost-time accident. “We have built an excellent safety culture there over the years by getting
CEDAR LAKE – Radio One Communications has complete construction on a 500-foot tall radio transmission tower, the second-tallest structure in the region. The project includes five years of planning and several months of construction. The tower will serve classic rock station WXRD-FM X-Rock 103.9 and adult contemporary WZVN-FM 107.1, The Z. “The new tower consolidates
