Data center eyed for 61st Avenue property, but Hobart residents dubious

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Data center eyed for 61st Avenue property, but Hobart residents dubious

A large piece of property on 61st Avenue in Hobart is back in play as the city gets into the data-center game, but residents who didn’t want a proposed warehouse complex on the site don’t want it, either. The Hobart Plan Commission during a nearly three-hour public hearing Thursday night ultimately approved unanimously a zone change to M-1 light industrial from R-3 for the 168 acres at 61st and Colorado Street for a proposed six-building data-ce…