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WellPoint memos show job cuts starting with mid-level execs

October 10, 2009
J.K. Wall
With a national unemployment rate of nearly 10 percent eroding its customer base, WellPoint Inc. is cutting at least 30 middle-management employees and reshuffling its corporate organization, according to internal memos obtained by IBJ.
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Securities firm Stifel Nicolaus balks at fraud charge

October 10, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
Transactions cited in the complaint involved advisers scattered across the firm’s seven Indiana offices, though two-thirds were clients of Jeff Cohen.
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Grocery, housing projects could rejuvenate stretch of 16th Street

October 10, 2009
Cory Schouten
A troubled low-income housing project has a new owner with plans to redevelop the complex to better connect with the Herron Morton Place neighborhood. Next door, Kroger has revived efforts to acquire land and plan a new supermarket to replace a cramped, old-format location.
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Indiana State Museum chief trying to define brand on tight budgetRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlin
The museum finally has a brand—it bills itself as a “center for science and culture”—but don’t expect a splashy campaign.
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Industrial real estate holding up during downturnRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Industrial real estate in Indianapolis hasn’t escaped a bumpy ride caused by the recession, but it has managed to withstand turbulence better than the office and retail sectors.
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Downtown public art campaign loses fundingRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlin
The organizations that spearheaded the city’s public art campaign are crippled for a lack of funding. While other public art efforts are under way in Indianapolis, no one organization has the money to commission an exhibit large enough to fill downtown.
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My Health Care Manager lands $3 million investmentRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
The company, which guides working adults and their parents through the maze of decisions and agencies involved in care for seniors, plans to use the money primarily to augment its sales staff and operations.
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Proposed Fishers medical park faces uncertain demandRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Scott Olson
The business park would encompass about 900 acres on the town’s northeast side and require rezoning of much of the land, from residential and agriculture to commercial.
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Lucas Oil out to build on Jiffy Lube dealRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Anthony Schoettle
One year after emblazoning its name on the Indianapolis Colts’ mammoth new home, Lucas Oil Products Inc. has leveraged that sponsorship into a pact with Jiffy Lube that company founder Forrest Lucas thinks will score huge profits for his company.
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Firms line up to find new uses for old airport terminal, other properties

October 10, 2009
Chris O'Malley
The cash-strapped Indianapolis Airport Authority suddenly can’t look soon enough at developing some of its vast real estate holdings, including the city’s former passenger terminal. This month, it plans to conduct final contract negotiations with a firm that would study reuse of the old terminal, adjacent land and other airport holdings.
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Kroger ads in Star grab attention, raise eyebrowsRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Anthony Schoettle
A new eye-grabbing advertising design in The Indianapolis Star has some wondering where ad content stops and news content begins.
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Indiana life sciences leaders discover dozens of tiny outsourcing companiesRestricted Content

October 10, 2009
Chris O'Malley
BioCrossroads, an Indianapolis-based not-for-profit, is cataloging Indiana businesses offering contract services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and discovering many small firms operating in relative obscurity.
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Area home sales stronger, prices still down

October 9, 2009
Scott Olson
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area ticked up in September, due in large part to first-time homebuyers enticed by large tax breaks.
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Economist: Recovery at hand, but barriers exist

October 9, 2009
Scott Olson
Leading indicators show that an economic recovery likely will take hold in 2010, although several challenges remain that could delay a solid rebound from the worst recession in a generation, an economist said Friday morning at IBJ's annual Economic Forecast.
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WellPoint shares partially recover after Thursday plunge

October 9, 2009
J.K. Wall
Shares of WellPoint Inc. partially recovered Friday morning after a plunge was touched off Thursday by gathering momentum behind health care reform and talk of a windfall-profit tax by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
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Emmis smacked with quarterly loss of $135M

October 9, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Emmis Communications Corp. suffered a whopping loss of $135.6 million in its most recent fiscal quarter, the Indianapolis-based media company reported Friday morning.
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Daniels warns of more cuts amid revenue declines

October 8, 2009
Scott Olson
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels warned Thursday morning that more state budget cuts could be forthcoming in light of a prolonged drop in tax collections. Indiana collected $3.3 billion in total revenue during the fiscal first quarter, 14 percent less than the same period last year.
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Anonymous donor gives $5 million to Marian University

October 8, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Marian University has received an anonymous $5 million gift to support student scholarships, the Indianapolis-based school announced Wednesday.
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Accuride restructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy

October 8, 2009
Evansville-based Accuride Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday as part of a restructuring of debt.
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Controversial downtown project to get tax abatement

October 7, 2009
Scott Olson
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission approved a 10-year tax abatement Wednesday afternoon for a controversial public-private plan to redevelop a vacant downtown office building.
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Lilly settles Zyprexa suit with S. Carolina

October 7, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to settle the State of South Carolina's lawsuit that claimed Lilly improperly marketed the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, according to Bloomberg News.
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Fever exec 'confident' about team's future

October 7, 2009
Scott Olson
As the Indiana Fever try to win their first WNBA championship, an executive with the team's parent organization is optimistic the women’s basketball squad will remain in Indianapolis.
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Symphony musicians, management take big pay cuts

October 7, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlin
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra musicians will take a 12-percent pay cut this year, saving the cash-strapped organization $4 million. Management-side salary reductions should save another $2 million.
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IU: Indiana economy turned in March

October 7, 2009
Norm Heikens
The Indiana economy turned up in March, but the recovery has been slow and dogged. That's the picture painted by a new monthly index unveiled Wednesday by the Indiana Business Research Center within the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
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Senate bill doesn't fund Rolls-Royce jet engine

October 7, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
The measure holds potential bad news for Indianapolis engine maker Rolls-Royce because it does not contain funding for a key jet engine the company produces, but lawmakers are expected to restore funding when the Senate and House combine bills into a final version.
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  1. Irvington is up and coming much like Fountain Square. We would love to have something like this in our neighborhood!

  2. Why do we care who has submitted proposals if we can't review the proposals? It's publicly owned land, but the public has zero say in what gets chosen to be built there. Yep, that sounds about right.

  3. Perhaps May 21 is "Evangelical Day" over at the IBJ?

  4. I don't know what's more depressing: that this passes for a defensible elective in a publicly funded SCIENCE class, or that more than half of the posters here are defending this charlatan. Intelligent design is creationism. Creationism is religion. Yes, we have freedom of religion, which deserves to be protected. Now someone kindly show Professor Hedin his freedom by escorting him over to the Religion department at BSU. Carry on.

  5. I hope people realize that the 'vocal' opposition at the meeting represent the minority of people against this project. As with any controversial project - those who don't want it are the loudest, while those who like it or really don't care one way or the other don't come to such meetings. Unfortunately the same may be true of the survey now being offered by the BRVA. I live less than a 5 minute walk from BR Avenue and can tell you that I and most of my neighbors are support this exciting project, or are ambivalent. And how great that it includes quality apartments - something that BR sorely lacks. This is a first class opportunity that we should embrace (and no, I'm not with the BRVA or the developer.) As for the fellow who owns the Good Earth store, if he doesn't want competition then let him pull together his own investors and out bid Whole Foods to operate the proposed grocery component! Come on folks - let's move ahead.

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