“The governor has been very clear: We’re just not in the land development business, and it’s not a core competency,” Commerce Secretary David Adams told IBJ.
The community center is the latest major project to provide amenities for residents in a city that has grown in population over the past 35 years from 7,500 people to 104,000.
Indianapolis-based Elevate, a nonprofit venture investment firm, has been operating under a cloud since late April when state officials froze its funding.
Four years after the project was first proposed, the group is still submitting and altering plans for the rest of the project on several former industrial properties along the Monon Trail.
These ratings matter when the state borrows money for public projects. A AAA rating gives the state readier access to capital at lower interest rates, meaning that projects are constructed for less.
The vote, initiated by Republican Councilor Michael-Paul Hart, sets a Sept. 22 public hearing before the full council to review rezoning of 467 acres for Google’s proposed project.
The administration is seeking an advisory opinion on the legality of the Governor’s Commission on Supplier Diversity and the continued implementation of the Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises Program.
Among the options on the table are renovating the 30-year-old elevated event venue, rebuilding it or even relocating it to another intersection downtown.
U.S. Steel will cut production at the Illinois plant, likely in November, but it won’t lay off any of the roughly 800 workers there or reduce their pay, it said.
Several faculty and university senates have approved resolutions asking their leaders to sign a NATO-like agreement to pool resources in case President Donald Trump’s administration targets one of its members.
Since the start of the year, Morgan County officials have rezoned nearly 400 acres of farmland for light industrial use and approved a series of tax abatements to make way for the project.
With the City-County Council approaching a Sept. 22 public hearing over the 467-acre project, IBJ looked into many of the questions being asked about the controversial development.
The suspect is believed to have acted alone, and an investigation is ongoing. He was arrested on suspicion of capital murder, weapons and obstruction offenses.
In raw numbers, 72,419 more girls than boys who graduated from Indiana high schools from 2009 to 2023 went on to higher education, according to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s College Going Dashboard.
