December 8, 2009
Cory SchoutenSimon Property Group Inc. is doubling down on outlet malls with an agreement to buy Baltimore-based Prime Outlets, a
privately held firm that owns 22 of the giant properties.
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December 8, 2009
IBJ StaffA federal appeals court will decide whether Eli Lilly and Co. must pay $65.2 million in damages, plus royalties, over a drug-patent
claim.
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December 8, 2009
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP is selling 3 million shares of common stock to pay debt and to finance requirements
of an agreement with another company.
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December 8, 2009
Tom HartonKosene & Kosene is launching a full-service residential real estate brokerage, in part to counter a tough development
market.
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December 7, 2009
Associated PressLast week, Patrick signed a three-year contract extension with Andretti Autosport to stay in the IndyCar series, but its schedule
gives her enough time to also try NASCAR.
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December 7, 2009
Indianapolis-based Miller Pipeline Corp. announced Monday morning that it has purchased Illinois-based Elcon Pipeline Inc.,
marking the company’s fifth acquisition in the past four years.
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December 7, 2009
The parent of EnerDel, an Indianapolis-based producer of automotive lithium-ion batteries, announced Monday morning that it
has received about $20 million in investment capital from a Japanese company.
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December 7, 2009
Indianapolis-based Allison Transmission Inc. announced Monday morning that it has entered into a long-term agreement to have
Delphi Automotive Systems Inc. supply it with hybrid drive-system components and energy-storage systems.
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December 7, 2009
Andrea Muirragui DavisAfter more than four years on the market, the Carmel estate built for Conseco Inc. founder Stephen Hilbert is listed at
$9.9 million—less than half of the original asking price and a third of the $30
million it was estimated to be worth in 2001.
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December 5, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe recession decimated Indiana’s auto-parts makers, but many other manufacturers in the state survived. After a year
adrift in the recession, they see signs of land ahead.
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December 5, 2009
J.K. WallHouse and Senate versions of health care reform could halt the trend toward physician-owned hospitals.
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December 5, 2009
Anthony SchoettleTeam profits declined from $1.23 million in 2008 to $459,603 this year. Despite
that, the team’s board voted unanimously to pay a dividend.
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December 5, 2009
Cory SchoutenFlorida-based Sun Capital has completed the turnaround of Marsh Supermarkets and now is seeking a buyer
for the home-grown chain. CEO Frank Lazaran told IBJ Sun will sell Marsh “when the market is right, financing
is right, and
someone is willing to pay a fair multiple.”
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December 5, 2009
Brock BenefielCold storage might become a hot business for a building contractor.
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December 5, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinA Ford Motor Co. subsidiary will start cutting its local work force next year, but won’t close its east-side plant
for good until late 2011.
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December 5, 2009
Chris O'MalleyThe state’s utility consumer agency is opposing Duke Energy’s request to have customers pay $121 million to
study where to inject underground the carbon dioxide to be produced by its Edwardsport plant.
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December 5, 2009
Chris O'MalleyThe amount raised since October is in addition to the $69.9 million it received in May from three venture
firms on the coasts, in what was the third-largest venture deal in the nation during the second quarter,
according to the National Venture Capital Association.
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December 5, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
Visions for the empty historic building
range from offices to a museum. Two developers propose a boutique hotel on an adjacent parking
lot. Video bonus: Tour the landmark's interior.
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December 5, 2009
Anthony SchoettleIndianapolis was up against Dallas, Las Vegas, Orlando, Atlanta and New Orleans to host baseball's Winter
Meetings, which
will draw more than 200 media members from the nation’s top 30 markets.
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December 5, 2009
Sam StallEntrepreneur earmarks 10 percent of profits for charity, honors well-run not-for-profits.
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December 4, 2009
Anthony SchoettleOfficials for the Indianapolis Tennis Championships announced Friday afternoon that they have sold the sanctioning rights
for the local tournament back to the ATP Tour.
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December 4, 2009
Associated PressIU trustees have approved a contract extension for school president Michael McRobbie.
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December 4, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinDubbed the "Indiana Experience," the exhibits represent the first ticketed tourist attraction at the society's headquarters
building.
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December 4, 2009
Greg AndrewsAttorneys on Friday afternoon filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to rescind $200 million in investor purchases of Fair
Finance Co. securities and to slap Tim Durham and other company insiders with millions of dollars in punitive
damages.
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December 4, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe Indianapolis-based shopping mall owner is facing competition for General Growth from Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management
Inc., which also has been buying up General Growth's debt.
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
Serioulsy, people are AGINST this project? Most communities would be salivating over a project like this. You'd rather have an empty eye-sore gas station and shacks posing as apartments? This project is exactly what BR needs. BUILD IT MR MAYOR. And yes, I am a BR resident, and have been for 20 years.
As a St. Vincent employee of over 20 years, I am saddened and disheartened by this announcement. Unfortunately, as the healthcare "industry" continues on this political and corporate path, all that St. Vincent Hospital has stood for spiritually for its employees and this community is being sucked dry. I know it truly has no choice. It is not just Obamacare or just competition or just any single thing. This trend started long before I was even born when the government became involved in healthcare and it became an "industry." I grieve for those who will lose their jobs, one of whom may be me, but I also grieve for this hospital which I have served for over 20 years. May God give us and it the grace to withstand the future of healthcare.
Why do people constantly harp on this issue and act ignorant about what a city population measures? A city's population is the city's population. There is no argument or debate about it. If you want to measure the density of a city--measure it. If you want to measure the size of a metropolitan area, then measure the metropolitan population. City boundaries cover different sized areas--and they always have (though the disparity has probably increased since about 1900 or so when more cities began annexing their surrounding communities). For example, San Francisco only covers 49 square miles while Houston cover nearly 600 square miles. No one argues about the population rankings of either city even though they clearly cover extremely different sized areas. Indianapolis is the 13 largest city by population in the U.S. That is a fact. While the population of a metropolitan area may give you a better sense of how large a community is, as noted, even metro areas can vary widely in the size of geographic area they cover--so that is not a perfect comparison either.