Vine & Table, which opened in Carmel in 2007, was founded by Joe Husar, the owner of Kahn’s Catering. Husar sold the business in 2016 to Big Red Liquors.
The agreement between J.C. Hart Co. and residents of the Oxbow Estates and Spirit Lake condominiums cleared the way for the City-County Council to unanimously approve a rezoning of the former Willows Event Center property.
Brown Capital Group and Strategic Capital Partners previously partnered to develop Greenview Apartments, a 216-unit development adjacent to the future site of The Grove.
Mayor Sue Finkam’s announcement came after U.S. Rep. Jim Banks called on the city of Carmel to withdraw from a sister-city agreement executed by the former mayor and to refuse trips organized by groups linked to China’s ruling party.
As an alternative, the House approved a separate measure that would allow the City-County Council to increase the countywide local income tax by .02% to help pay for the operating costs of a homeless shelter and various improvements in the city’s Mile Square.
The rebuke from U.S. Rep. Jim Banks came after a Washington Post report that former Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard had traveled to China before he left office last year. Banks warned that sister-city agreements can unduly influence U.S. cities to support problematic Chinese policies.
Chinese officials are seizing on opportunities to forge ties with mayors and other local American leaders, the kinds of connections that give Beijing leverage against an increasingly hostile government in Washington.
Thirty-four Indiana companies landed $287 million in venture capital in 2023 to help finance a wide array of technologies, from medical isotopes to stem-cell therapies, according to BioCrossroads, an Indianapolis-based group that promotes and invests in the state’s life sciences sector and tracks the funding.
According to PitchBook data, Indiana firms attracted $730.5 million in venture investments last year, down 2% from the $748.7 million they landed in 2022. The number of venture deals dropped 13%, from 188 in 2022 to 164 in 2023.
Chris Jensen, 39, became the city’s first new mayor in 16 years when he succeeded Republican John Ditslear in 2020. While the pandemic provided a roadblock, Noblesville has still experienced a flurry of development in the past four years.
Five of the Republican candidates for governor addressed a conservative-friendly crowd in Carmel on Thursday night, each seeking to differentiate themselves by highlighting their qualifications and personal experience..
The operators of the now-closed schools allegedly inflated the enrollment by thousands of students and accepted more than $44 million in state funding, per a federal indictment from last week.
The Indiana Secretary of State’s Office has issued a cease-and-desist order against Carmel-based ReJoyce Financial LLC, its CEO Alexander Joyce, and two other parties.
The publicly traded firm, which said in June that it would move its operations to the OpenLane Inc. building at 11299 N. Illinois St., sees potential for residential and retail development and different kinds of office uses.
