August 11, 2012
Owners, restaurateurs are hoping to avoid new ordinances.
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August 9, 2012
The Metropolitan Development Commission's plat committee has given local developer Flaherty & Collins Properties the go-ahead
to include two upper-level pedestrian connectors in its plan to build a five-story parking garage downtown. The garage is
part of a larger, $85 million development.
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August 4, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinRedevelopment of the Massachusetts Avenue fire station could remain in limbo for the foreseeable future, as Mayor Greg Ballard
and council Democrats enter a standoff over tax increment financing districts.
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August 1, 2012
IBJ StaffMichael Huber, the city's deputy mayor for economic development since March 2010, is stepping down to take a lead role in
commercial development at Indianapolis International Airport. He'll be replaced by Bond Bank director Deron Kintner.
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July 31, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinIndianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard’s staff received a collective 18-percent raise this spring following the hiring of a
new deputy for education with an annual salary of $120,000.
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July 28, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinPublic safety and criminal justice are the only places left in the city-county budgets to look for ways to close a $27 million
spending gap for 2013. Sheriff, police, fire and court budgets account for 85 percent of the $569 million general fund.
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July 25, 2012
The plan to offer health-care benefits to domestic partners of Indianapolis city workers passed a City-County Council committee
by a 7-0 vote on Tuesday. The full council could consider the measure as early as Aug. 13.
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July 21, 2012
Cory SchoutenThe Mayor’s Office and local mass transit leaders have reached consensus on a site for a $30 million downtown transit
center. The preferred location is a city-owned surface parking lot along Washington Street between the City-County Building
and Marion County Jail.
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July 19, 2012
IBJ StaffIndianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has vetoed a proposed ordinance aimed at hiring practices by local hotels, the mayor's
office announced Thursday afternoon.
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July 14, 2012
Scott OlsonBuilding codes add more expense to high-rise projects.
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June 28, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinA study commission on tax-increment financing will vote Thursday evening on a set of policy recommendations that would limit
the use of TIF districts in Indianapolis.
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June 26, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinKroger Co. will add a gas station to its store at West 86th Street and Township Line Road after successfully lobbying an Indianapolis
City-County Council member who'd threatened to stand in its way.
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June 23, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe tax-increment finance district created around the former United Airlines maintenance hub at Indianapolis International
Airport doesn’t generate enough revenue to meet its annual debt payment. Neither do several other area TIF districts.
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June 16, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinMayor Greg Ballard is giving the private sector its first shot at managing the City-County Building since the downtown structure
opened 50 years ago. The city and county lease it from the Indianapolis-Marion County Building Authority, but Ballard's office
has posted a request for information from real estate firms interested in a 30-year operating agreement.
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June 5, 2012
Associated PressHealth-care benefits would be offered to the domestic partners of Indianapolis city workers under a proposal introduced Monday
night to the City-County Council.
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June 5, 2012
IBJ StaffUnited Parcel Service Inc. is planning a $10 million modernization project for a regional transportation hub in Indianapolis
and is seeking tax incentives to help make it happen. The project would help the company retain 750 local jobs.
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June 4, 2012
Chris O'MalleyPlanners designing roads would formally be required to look beyond the needs of motorists and pedestrians—to also
consider bicyclists and public transportation users—under an ordinance to be considered Monday night by the City-County
Council.
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June 4, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressIndianapolis didn’t violate the Constitution when it forgave sewer-system debt owed by some homeowners while refusing to give
refunds to those who had already paid, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
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May 30, 2012
Scott OlsonA constitutional law professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis said he doubts 10
bar owners have a chance fighting the city's smoking ban in court. The ban goes into effect Friday.
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May 26, 2012
Anthony SchoettleThe Indiana Pacers’ playoff run and a decreased player payroll—along with $10 million from the city’s Capital
Improvement Board—have brought the team closer to breaking even this year, but not out of the red, sports business experts
say.
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May 25, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinCity-County Councilor Angela Mansfield filed the proposal covering city employees that would make same-sex and heterosexual
couples who live together eligible for health insurance benefits.
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May 14, 2012
Scott OlsonThe City-County Council is set to hear a proposal by two companies to lease space on city-owned rooftops and sell electricity
generated by solar panels installed in those spots.
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May 12, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThird Street Partners, a marketing firm that hoped to land half a million dollars in corporate sponsorships for the city of
Indianapolis, has received a four-year contract extension to bring home red meat.
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May 2, 2012
IBJ StaffChris Cotterill, chief of staff to Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, plans to leave the administration and return to private
business, the city announced Wednesday. City-County Councilman Ryan Vaughn has resigned from his seat to replace Cotterill.
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April 28, 2012
Marc D. AllanThe city is guaranteed $7.5 million in savings over 15 years from a $18 million upgrade of city facilities, and the savings
are expected to accumulate further.
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Three Magi
Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.