Indianapolis Business Journal

St. Vincent faces expensive growth options

The hospital system’s 45-year-old campus will likely need hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades in coming years to keep it competitive long term.

Light, video show on Circle to pay patriotic tribute nightly

The curtain is set to be raised on a nightly five-minute patriotic light and sound presentation that local officials say will cast Monument Circle in a whole new hue and could draw tens of thousands of people annually to the iconic landmark.

Program to spur growth is not limited to poor communities

The area that includes the Fletcher Place neighborhood and the southeast corner of downtown is one of the hottest parts of Indianapolis, yet it’s included in a federal program designed to spur investments in poor neighborhoods.

Condos are in the works for Carmel’s central core

City officials have long sought to diversify housing options by introducing for-sale condominiums and town houses into a market saturated by hundreds of high-end apartments.

Merritt says collaboration will be key to solving the city’s biggest problems

Republican state Sen. Jim Merritt says his campaign for mayor has taken him to places and introduced him to people in the city he never knew before—an experience he wants to continue if he’s elected.

Talking with people, he said, is key to finding solutions to difficult problems.

Hogsett wants to build on administration’s ‘inclusive growth’ efforts in second term

Democratic Mayor Joe Hogsett says if he’s elected to serve a second term, he hopes “that prosperity can be shared by more people in Marion County than has been the case in the past.”

Q&A: Melangton leads campaign to help homeless women, children

Sports executive Allison Melangton had never led a capital campaign before Wheeler Mission asked her to chair its $12 million fundraising effort.

Local industrial sector ‘healthier than it’s ever been,’ expert says

The red-hot Indianapolis industrial real estate sector is nearing all-time records in vacancy, construction and absorption, newly-released market reports obtained by IBJ show.

10 new schools seeking innovation partnerships with IPS

Potential partners include one of the city’s earliest charter networks, a campus with a mindfulness focus, and a school for teens who have struggled with drug and alcohol addiction.

Medical device manufacturer plans $37M Westfield facility, 477 jobs

Abbott Laboratories announced plans Monday night to build a 120,000-square-foot facility in the NorthPoint Industrial Park along U.S. 31 where it will manufacture a heart valve repair device. 

Gerald Paul, co-founder of Paul Harris Stores, dies at 95

In addition to co-founding and leading national women’s clothing retailer Paul Harris Stores, Gerald Paul was an active philanthropist in local arts, education and Jewish causes.

Merritt says city shouldn’t have threatened eminent domain for GM stamping plant site

Republican state Sen. Jim Merritt, Democratic incumbent Joe Hogsett and Libertarian Douglas McNaughton specifically addressed the eminent domain issue at Monday night’s Indianapolis mayoral debate.

Powering research: Indiana universities balance federal grants with other sources of cash

University research budgets and federal funding levels are seen as increasingly important drivers of economic development as they give rise to more licensed technology and startup companies.

Ravi Parikh: Why for-profit research should be taken seriously

Patient data is increasingly in the hands of for-profit industries. Insurance firms and other for-profit companies have been collecting patient data that yields important information that could be used to shape medical care and health policy.

Editorial: Projects for homeless, offenders are good choices for tax credits

All four projects are worthy of funding. But what makes them special as a group is that they will serve such a diverse group of people—tech workers and startups, ex-offenders, homeless families and the African American community—while enhancing all of Indianapolis.

GREG MORRIS: USS Indianapolis makes Hoosiers proud again

The newly commissioned ship is the fourth to bear the city’s name.

Sheila Kennedy: P.E. MacAllister’s level of devotion becoming all too rare

The death of P.E. MacAllister is an occasion for reflection—about a life well-lived, certainly, but also about the nature of civic virtue, and the changes in society and the economy that have made the civic commitment he exemplified so much rarer.

Hoffmann: Three steps to improve our waters now and for the future

Education, conservation and preparation are vital for protecting the quality and availability of water in Indiana.

Mandy Haskett: It’s not what happened. It’s what happens next.

Great leadership isn’t about perfection. It’s about self-awareness. And we know objective human data is the gateway to developing that awareness—the No. 1 most critical competency among leaders.

PETE THE PLANNER: Abandoning shame is first step toward reaching financial goals

Shame prevents people—really smart and capable people—from bringing their challenges forward to the solutions altar.

BOHANON & CUROTT: Republicans once again preside over big jumps in debt, deficit

On Oct. 26, the Treasury Department announced the deficit for fiscal 2019 was $984 billion, a seven-year high and a 28% increase over 2018.

Letter: Vaping can have positive impact

Indy E Cigs opened its doors in 2013, and we currently employ more than 40 Hoosiers in our 10 retail locations along with our wholesale and manufacturing headquarters; we take our corporate responsibility seriously when it comes to preventing youth from getting access to vapor products.

McLaren confirms Hinchcliffe out of its 2020 IndyCar lineup

Arrow McLaren SP officially named Indy Lights champions Pato O’Ward and Oliver Askew as its drivers for 2020 on Wednesday, leaving popular IndyCar veteran James Hinchcliffe without a ride.

Roche Diagnostics hires Sause as new CEO of North America

Matthew Sause, 42, returns to Roche Diagnostics Corp., where he worked for 17 years before leaving briefly this year for a senior position at Gilead Sciences.

Broad Ripple Gazette dropping print publication, continuing online

The 15-year-old tabloid’s editor, publisher and owner hopes that eliminating the time spent producing and delivering the paper will free up resources for producing more content on its website.

Bub’s sister restaurant calling it quits after 12 years in business

Bub’s Cafe owner Matt Frey said the eatery will close Wednesday. He and his wife, Rachel, own the restaurant and the building that houses it.

Indiana regulators side with Duke Energy on rate-hike paperwork case

The ruling is a setback for consumer activists and customer groups, who say Duke Energy’s application to raise electricity rates by an average of 15% is incomplete and confusing.

2019 Women of Influence: Karen L. Alter

“I really lead with my heart. I want our people to feel safe, have the tools they need and know they are appreciated,” Karen Alter says.

2019 Women of Influence: Aylin Bartlett

Aylin Bartlett leads a $6 billion enterprise within Corteva that has 350 employees in 25 countries.

2019 Women of Influence: Christine Birch

Christine Birch has tackled some tough issues at Taft. including championing a plan that eliminated the traditional two-class partnership structure in favor of a single class of ownership.

2019 Women of Influence: Bridget Boyle

Bridget Boyle helped found Roche’s Women’s Leadership Initiative and is using it as the foundation for a broader diversity and inclusion effort.

2019 Women of Influence: Dr. Elaine Cox

Despite serving as an administrator, “I think I am most proud that … I have been able to continue to advocate from the physician perspective,” Dr. Elaine Cox says.

2019 Women of Influence: Dr. Angela Fiege

Dr. Angela Fiege founded Rachael’s First Week after her daughter died from a traumatic brain injury the day after arriving at Indiana University in Bloomington for her freshman year.

2019 Women of Influence: Leslie Craig Henderzahs

Leslie Craig Henderzahs, who joined the firm 27 years ago, recently was inducted as president of the 10,000-member Indiana State Bar Association.

2019 Women of Influence: Denise Herd

President Herd Strategies For Denise Herd, the path to business ownership wound its way through the theater, McDonald’s and Indiana Black Expo’s Summer Celebration. And her journey blazed a trail for other black public relations professionals in Indianapolis. “I have been so blessed throughout my whole career,” said Herd, president of consulting firm Herd Strategies. […]

2019 Women of Influence: Toni Y. Hickey

Toni Hickey has been an intellectual property lawyer at Cummins for seven years and now serves as the company’s top lawyer for IP, overseeing a team responsible for developing its comprehensive intellectual property strategy.

2019 Women of Influence: Aleesia Johnson

As superintendent of IPS, Aleesia Johnson’s charge is to lead the district in pursuit of its vision to be a family of excellent schools where all students have the opportunity to succeed and the power to create their own future.

2019 Women of Influence: NiCole Keith

NiCole Keith is a professor of kinesiology at IUPUI and researcher and investigator at the Regenstrief Institute that helped develop a fitness program for Indianapolis Public Schools that puts IUPUI kinesiology students to work as coaches, trainers and role models for residents of IPS neighborhoods.

2019 Women of Influence: Idalene ‘Idie’ Kesner

As dean of the IU Kelley School of Business, Idie Kesner oversees more than 30 degree programs, nearly 12,000 students, about 700 faculty and staff members and a global alumni network of nearly 117,000.

2019 Women of Influence: Angela Carr Klitzsch

Three years into her tenure as president and CEO of EmployIndy, Angela Carr Klitzsch has attracted more than $10 million in philanthropic funds for new programs and launched a series of initiatives focused on everything from summer youth employment and job readiness to work-based learning and talent referral networks.

2019 Women of Influence: Kristin Kohn

Kristin Kohn opened Silver in the City in Mass Ave in 2000 and runs a second store in Carmel as well. She’s also a founding member of the Mass Ave Merchants Association.

2019 Women of Influence: Amy Levander

Amy Levander—the chairwoman of Indianapolis law firm Krieg DeVault’s Government Affairs and Public Advocacy Practice Group—is a founding board member and the current executive director of Hoosier Women Forward, a leadership training program for Democrats.

2019 Women of Influence: Kate Maxwell

Kate Maxwell is the chief engineer for product support at Raytheon Indianapolis and the brain child of the company’s Intelligence, Information and Services Innovation Center, an organization launched in 2017 that empowers employees to get creative no matter where they are assigned.

2019 Women of Influence: Janet McCabe

Janet McCabe teaches environmental law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, oversees the Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge, and is director of the IU Environmental Resilience Institute.

2019 Women of Influence: Hannah Ott

Hannah Ott and partner George Tikijian sold Tikijian Associates to Cushman & Wakefield in late 2018 and now co-lead its seven-member Indiana Multifamily Team.

2019 Women of Influence: Darcey Palmer-Shultz

Darcey Palmer-Shultz has led Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana to become one of the organization’s top affiliates in the country.

2019 Women of Influence: Susana Rivera-Mills

Susana Rivera-Mills oversees all seven of the university’s academic colleges, plus the Graduate School, University College and Honors College.

2019 Women of Influence: Marisol Sanchez

Marisol Sanchez’s three-person legal department is responsible for all nine Endress+Hauser affiliates in the United States, plus affiliates in Canada and Mexico.

2019 Women of Influence: Kristin Sherman

Kristin Sherman joined VMS as CFO in 2016, and a year later added oversight of all the firm’s support functions—everything from legal and IT to compliance and HR.

2019 Women of Influence: Heather L. Wilson

Heather Wilson is responsible for ensuring that the law firm continues to thrive and grows its market share in Indianapolis.

MIKE LOPRESTI: College schedules laden with quirks

Intriguing match-ups, long stretches at home and away, and a team that plays a third of all its games before Dec. 1.