SDI pledges $1.5 million to Trine engineering expansion
ANGOLA â The Steel Dynamics Foundation Inc. has pledged $1.5 million toward Trine University s engineering facility expansion, the university announced Monday.
In honor of Steel Dynamics support, the 40,000-square-foot expansion will be named the Steel Dynamics Inc. Center for Engineering and Computing.
A longtime supporter of Trine University, the Steel Dynamics Foundation Inc. has provided major gifts toward the Steel Dynamics Inc./Keith E. Busse Athletic and Recreation Center and the Thunder Ice Arena.
Enrollment in the Allen School of Engineering and Computing has risen 72% over the past decade to nearly 1,000 students, with engineering students accounting for more than 40% of Trine s main campus student population.
AUBURN â Crown Communities LLC of California has purchased the West Edge Park manufactured housing community of Auburn.
With 660 units, the park is one of the largest in Indiana, and the new owners intend to keep it at high quality, said Alexander Cabot of Crown Communities.
The new owners bought the property April 1 from the children of the late Burt and Elsie Dickman, who founded West Edge Park in the mid-1960s.
âThe Dickmans spent 50-odd years making that a nice place to live. We want to continue that legacy,â Cabot said.
âWe want to put a lot of money into the community and assure that it epitomizes the standard of manufactured-housing-community living in the state of Indiana,â Cabot added.