KALAMAZOO, Mich.— The Western Michigan College Board of Trustees accepted promoting two parcels within the new Enterprise Know-how and Analysis Park North.
The 55-acre enterprise park is the northward enlargement of Western’s unique BTR Park located on the nook of Parkview Avenue and Drake Highway. The enlargement formally opened this previous fall, and the primary property proprietor, Ascension Borgess Most cancers Heart, opened its doorways in September.
Throughout their formal assembly on Thursday, March 17, trustees accepted Bronson Properties Corp.’s $414,000 supply for a 5.52-acre parcel within the park. The company is a division of Bronson Healthcare. The opposite accepted sale at $350,000 was for a 4.45-acre parcel for Faraday Protection Corp., a supplies firm that gives options to guard gear and personnel from electromagnetic discipline radiation, electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference.
5 acres now stays obtainable for improvement at BTR Park North, which was honored earlier this month as a sustainable land use undertaking. The U.S. Inexperienced Constructing Council of West Michigan’s Modern Venture Award acknowledged the event for remediating environmentally impacted land and creating area for sustainable companies and use.
Trustees accepted an extra property sale Thursday—the Kendall Heart in downtown Battle Creek. Kendall housed one of many College’s regional places, however that programming relocated to the brand new Aviation Schooling Heart facility on the School of Aviation, additionally in Battle Creek. The Kendall Heart shall be bought to town of Battle Creek for $1, which was the ability’s unique buy value in 1993.
The College division answerable for regional training—WMUx—continues its engagement with the Battle Creek group. WMUx has expanded the standards for the Kendall Instructor Students Scholarship Fund. Established by the Roy and Beulah Kendall property, the fund helps Calhoun County educators who’re persevering with their training, together with to finish levels. Recipients can now use the scholarship to pay for on-line courses in addition to programs delivered in individual on the Aviation Schooling Heart.
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