The New England Institute of Technology has bought 150 acres in East Greenwich that includes a nine-hole golf course and most of the Rocky Hill Fairgrounds to build a sprawling new campus, town officials confirmed yesterday.

The Warwick-based technical school also recently reached an agreement to buy an additional 50 acres that was formerly planned as the site of a 400-plus unit housing development, said East Greenwich Town Manager William Sequino Jr...

...The combined 200-acres...would allow the college...to move from its crowded Warwick buildings to a campus setting that would include dormitories, ball fields and more. The institute’s automotive center, built in 2005 just off Route 95 in Warwick, is expected to remain at its current location, Sequino said...

...“They’re not looking at doing anything for five to six years or longer,” Sequino said, but they will present a “preliminary plan."