Central Indiana pending home sales dropped 2.7 percent in March compared to the same period last year, according to the latest statistics from the F.C. Tucker Co., yet brokers say they remain optimistic as the inventory of available homes begins to balance out. Overall, the number of pending home sales in the nine-county Indianapolis area […]
Former Marsh Supermarkets Inc. CEO Don Marsh is denying allegations that he treated his former company like “a personal checkbook” to bankroll extravagant trips, maintain vacation homes and hide relationships with female employees. Those accusations were made in a lawsuit filed last week in Hamilton County by the locally-based grocery chain. IBJ first reported the […]
A Hamilton County woman accused of swindling investors in a clean coal energy startup agreed yesterday to an injunction that freezes her assets, including artwork by Pablo Picasso, jewelry and a luxury waterfront home. The agreement in Marion Superior Court makes permanent a temporary restraining order issued last week by Judge Patrick McCarty following a […]
A Hamilton County woman accused of swindling investors in a clean coal energy startup agreed today to an injunction that freezes her assets, including artwork by Pablo Picasso, jewelry and a luxury waterfront home. The agreement in Marion Superior Court makes permanent a temporary restraining order issued last week by Judge Patrick McCarty following a […]
Township officials provide many services for the community, molded by back-yard input, which enhances quality of life.
The state has frozen the assets of three Indianapolis-area businesspeople, including the owners of J.S. Marten Jewelers in Carmel, as part of a fraud investigation, the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office announced late Wednesday afternoon. The state said Dorothy Geisler-Tragardh, formerly a partner in Virginia-based clean-coal energy company Praxis Resource Partners LLC, and jewelers Jan […]
Lauth Properties alleges in a lawsuit that the state’s plan to rebuild 13 miles of U.S. 31 in Hamilton County to freeway standards
will cut off access to a property it owns in Westfield, killing plans for a Wal-Mart there.
Lauth Properties alleges in a lawsuit that the state’s plan to rebuild 13 miles of U.S. 31 in Hamilton County to freeway standards will cut off access to a property it owns in Westfield, killing plans for a Wal-Mart there. The case filed in Hamilton Superior Court could be the first of many legal challenges […]
Just like Willie Sutton, who liked to rob banks because that’s where the money was, I’m going to get myself a job in township government because, "There is gold in them thar hills."
Here’s something that passes as good news for central Indiana’s moribund housing market: Prices might hold steady this year,
after falling nearly 7 percent from their 2006 peak.
Here’s something that passes as good news for central Indiana’s moribund housing market: Prices might hold steady this year, after falling nearly 7 percent from their 2006 peak. Economists and other real estate professionals say the economy may start to recover in the second half of the year, boosting demand just as the glut of […]
Sitting in gridlocked traffic along Interstate 69, Fishers residents might already think of their town as
a city. This sprawling suburb of 65,000 people certainly looks nothing like the burg of less than 1,000 it was three decades ago.
But down at the municipal government complex, Fishers is still a town, just as it was incorporated in 1891.
On Sept. 26, the Indiana Regional Transportation Council voted to move to the next phase in the development of a mass transit
line connecting downtown Indianapolis to Hamilton County, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Without good data, public and private decisions will be hampered in the next decade.
Thanks to a $25,000 contribution from Beck’s Hybrids, Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County was able to purchase land and
build its 50th home this year.
Carmel Mayor James Brainard is trying to convince his city to pay up to $52 million more than the original amount allocated
for a roundabout interchange project designed to ease congestion on Keystone Avenue.
Indiana’s blue vote for president-elect Barack Obama on Election Day was a sign that Hoosiers are ready for change. So was
the state’s red vote to keep incumbent Gov. Mitch Daniels in office. In this case, the status quo means more change. Daniels
has been making gutsy and sometimes unpopular moves since taking office four years ago. He ran on a promise to keep shaking
things up.
Voters in eight Marion County townships overwhelmingly opted to consolidate duties of their local assessors and transfer the duties to the county assessor. Warren Township had the lowest affirmative count, 57 percent, while Washington had the highest, 70 percent. Results of the referendum question, “Should the assessing duties of the elected township assessor in the […]
Sixty Indianapolis-area business and civic leaders visited Denver Oct. 19-21 as
part of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce 2008 Leadership Exchange and paid close attention to public transportation, especially commuter trains.
We have a long-standing policy of not endorsing political candidates, but there’s no such policy where ballot initiatives
are concerned. So we urge our readers to vote "yes" on assessor consolidation.
