December 5, 2012
Bloomberg NewsFuji Heavy Industries Ltd.’s Subaru unit is studying whether to expand its Indiana auto-assembly plant as the Toyota
Motor Corp. affiliate seeks to boost U.S. output to curb currency losses and meet growing demand for its models.
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December 4, 2012
Scott OlsonPlainfield-based Fundex Games Ltd., which filed for bankruptcy protection in September, said Poof-Slinky Inc. is the only
potential purchaser that has shown interest in acquiring the company's assets.
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December 1, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe Wabash Valley Power Association has been reducing its dependence on energy produced from coal—from 95 percent five
years ago to 54 percent today. The utility is leaning more on natural gas and even renewable-energy sources like methane from
landfills and animal waste.
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December 1, 2012
Dan HumanA top BrightPoint Inc. executive expects little employment change for the distribution and logistics company’s 1,100-person
central Indiana work force, despite the potential for job cuts and facility closings across the country.
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December 1, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe company that hosts outsourced computer operations is dramatically boosting its investment in its local operation.
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November 30, 2012
Associated PressConstruction crews are hustling to beat a Dec. 31 deadline to get 125 turbines in operation for a wind farm that is eventually
planned to reach into four central Indiana counties.
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November 27, 2012
Associated PressMost of the 158 acres that made up the Yule Golf Club in Alexandria was sold in an October auction for nearly $1 million to
Yorktown farmer Dale Rinker, who is seeking city permission to use it for agriculture.
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November 27, 2012
IBJ StaffA Minnesota-based mining company plans to spend as much as $350 million to build a iron ore pellet plant in Indiana, creating
up to 100 jobs by 2015, the company announced Tuesday morning.
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November 27, 2012
Associated PressThe Bloomington City Council has approved giving up some city property for construction of a $27 million Hyatt Hotel near
the downtown courthouse square.
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November 24, 2012
Chris O'MalleyCNO Financial Group appears to have wrapped its arms around the cost of settling a trio of consumer lawsuits involving life
insurance rate hikes, but it’s not out of the woods yet.
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November 19, 2012
IBJ StaffCarmel’s City Council on Monday night voted 7-0 to approve a proposal to refinance $195 million in debt incurred by
the Carmel Redevelopment Commission.
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November 17, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinChris Baggott has spent the past year and a half raising cattle, pigs and chickens on pasture, rather than conventional feed
grain, and without the use of hormones or antibiotics.
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November 17, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinAn executive ousted from the firm developing The Barrington in Carmel alleges that the $142 million retirement-community project
was driven by conflicts of interest.
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November 17, 2012
Zionsville-based Oobatz! will open in building formerly occupied by Uno Chicago Grill.
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November 14, 2012
Scott OlsonZionsville Community Schools and the town of Zionsville are teaming up to purchase and develop a prime piece of real estate
owned by Dow Chemical Co.
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November 13, 2012
Troy, Mich.-based Meritor Inc., a global supplier of commercial truck parts, said it will consolidate North American remanufacturing
operations by moving production from Ontario, Canada, to its facility in Hendricks County.
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November 13, 2012
Dan HumanA $200,000 gift from the Dr. Laura Hare Charitable Trust will help the Central Indiana Land Trust acquire 109 forested acres
in southwest Johnson County.
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November 10, 2012
Cory SchoutenFishers officials are finalizing a deal with a local developer for a mixed-use project that would launch a long-awaited transformation
of the town’s suburban core.
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November 10, 2012
Chris O'MalleyUniversities that once focused on faculty inventions now are encouraging students to pursue patents. Last year, 355 Purdue
University students filed a patent, a 62-percent jump from 218 student-filed patents the previous year.
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November 10, 2012
Chris O'MalleySmithville Telephone, headquartered in Ellettsville, near Bloomington, is the state’s largest independently owned phone
company. Its Smithville Digital division, which provides fiber-optic communications to businesses, hospitals and schools in
17 Indiana counties, mostly in the south, has quietly been growing on the periphery of Indianapolis.
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November 6, 2012
IBJ StaffVoters in the fast-growing suburb north of Indianapolis approved a ballot measure Tuesday that will turn the town of 80,000
residents into a second class city with an elected mayor.
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November 6, 2012
Glass fabricator FacadeTek Inc. has notified state officials that it will eliminate 72 jobs at its Whitestown facility in
January.
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November 5, 2012
IBJ StaffThe Westfield City Council voted 6-1 Monday night to transfer its water and wastewater assets to Citizens Energy Group for
$91 million.
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November 3, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed placing the city of Martinsville on its Superfund priority list,
citing groundwater contamination traced to several former dry cleaning shops in the heart of town.
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November 3, 2012
Scott OlsonPete Kissinger hopes Phlebotics will follow in the footsteps of another of his creations, Bioanalytical Systems Inc.
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It's also across the street from Fogo de Chao and Morton's....
Yep, the haters are trying to make good news bad. I guess it is hard to get people to believe the series is dying when they are gaining new sponsors.
David Copperfield! I remember watching his specials on TV when I was little.
Don't forget this is next to an MMA gym, a pawn shop, and some abandoned spaces.
Good project for Zionsville - A group who has owned the property for many years has waited and worked patiently to bring highest and best use development to a major corridor, and mix that in with the great downtown you have. Win Win. All the Best to Pittman Partners and Zionsville.