Group reconsiders demo request
The Salvation Army is rethinking a request to demolish an historic home it owns next to its headquarters at Michigan and Alabama streets. The not-for-profit…
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Carmel officials weigh $20M roundabout vote-WEB ONLY
Carmel officials are expected to vote tonight on a controversial plan to spend $20 million on a plan to turn six intersections along Keystone Avenue into roundabouts. The original price tag for the project was $90 million, but Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard later called for an additional $50 million to fund the construction. Tonight, the […]
Former mayor among new UIndy trustees-WEB ONLY
The University of Indianapolis has added five trustees to its board, including former Indianapolis mayor Bart Peterson. Since losing his bid for a third term as mayor in 2007, Peterson has worked as a resident fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and as chairman of the Mind Trust, an education not-for-profit he co-founded in […]
States face competing priorities for stimulus cash-WEB ONLY
It may sound like a nice problem for states – figuring out how to spend the billions in infrastructure funding they’ll receive as part of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. But the task is more complicated than it seems, as state officials try to set priorities while managing competing pressures from communities, watchdog groups […]
Indianapolis’ sewer project will be the city’s biggest public works undertaking since the interstate highway system
City engineers and consultants are fine-tuning plans to build a colossal tunnel to temporarily store water and raw sewage that now shoots into local waterways during rain storms.
Hoosier architects need to reach out globally
Indianapolis-area architects are missing out on a wealth of outsourced design work for construction projects.
Elkhart’s industries could be transformed to focus on energy conservation and environmental improvements
Elkhart’s industries should shift to producing mass transit vehicles and manufactured housing for low-income, high-density neighborhoods.
Jefferson Plaza renovation approaches end
The Jefferson Plaza renovation, which has been renamed Allen Plaza after its developer, will include restaurants, office space, condos, and is also working to achieve LEED environmental certification.
Leaders driven to finish road linking Interstates 74, 70
Recently elected as a Hendricks County commissioner, Eric Wathen says his top priority is to complete the long-promised Ronald
Reagan Parkway, which would open a congestion-free path through the suburbs of Brownsburg, Avon and Plainfield.CIB could ask for $34 million in write-offs from Circle Centre investors to ease deficit
A group of mostly local companies that made big investments to help launch Circle Centre mall soon could be asked to write
off a portion of profits they agreed to redirect into the construction of Conseco Fieldhouse.‘Green’ design is sensible in era of great uncertainty
Contrary to fears, environmentally friendly construction isn’t expensive.
Are we victims of ‘group think’?
“Group think,” a powerful and controlling force, was present as the Capital Improvement Board built Lucas Oil Stadium and Eli Lilly and Co. developed and marketed Zyprexa.
Don’t ask the Colts
The Colts are our “heroes,” the bedrock of our community (at least for the few months per year that most of them spend here). Why should these esteemed athletes help the city?
Nature Conservancy HQ to be energy efficient
The Nature Conservancy is finalizing plans for a $4.4 million headquarters at 620 E. Ohio St.
Local contractors looking to sewer project to fill gap left by stadium, terminal
Local contractors will be ready to pounce when bidding on the first parts of the combined overflow project begins in 2011.
Mall backers may take hit-WEB ONLY
A group of mostly local companies that made big investments to help launch Circle Centre mall soon could be asked to write off a portion of profits they agreed to redirect into the construction of Conseco Fieldhouse. The Capital Improvement Board has floated the possibility of asking the 13 investors-including Conseco, American United Life, Duke […]
EYE ON THE PIE: I dreamed I saw Barack last night-WEB ONLY
I had a dream that I met with President Obama during his visit to Elkhart. It was just before breakfast in a school gymnasium. He was shooting baskets with one hand and drinking orange juice with the other. “A little one-onone?” he asked. “No,” I answered. “My basketball days are over.” “What do you do […]
$3.5 billion. 200 feet deep. 20 miles long. 15 years.-WEB ONLY
Try to imagine a space large enough to hold as much water as thunders over Niagara Falls in five minutes. Now imagine stashing that water beneath Indianapolis in a cavity nearly as deep underground as the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument on Monument Circle is high. That’s the goal of city engineers and consultants as […]
U.S. 31 upgrades get green light-WEB ONLY
The Indiana Department of Transportation has received approval to proceed with upgrades planned for U.S. 31 in Hamilton County. A decision this week from the Federal Highway Administration allows INDOT to acquire land for the corridor that extends 13 miles from Interstate 465 to State Road 38. Construction is expected to begin in 2011. The […]
Decision delayed on proposed crematorium-WEB ONLY
It will be at least another week before the city’s Metropolitan Development Commission decides whether to allow a crematorium to be built near the corner of Allisonville Road and 82nd Street. The commission was supposed to decide Feb. 4 whether the Harry W. Moore Funeral Care center could construct a one-story, 1,600-square-foot crematory on the […]