2024 Year in Review: I-69 opens fully from Indianapolis to Evansville
The final portion of the 150-mile project was completed with the opening of a newly built interchange linking I-69 and I-465.
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The final portion of the 150-mile project was completed with the opening of a newly built interchange linking I-69 and I-465.
The economic enhancement district is projected to raise $4.65 million a year in taxes to pay for downtown-focused improvements and programs and fund the operating costs of a low-barrier homeless shelter planned on the southeast side of downtown.
Indianapolis added one homegrown music festival in 2024, while three others were put on hold because of financial challenges in the concert industry.
Le Monte Booker, chief financial officer of Chicago’s Field Museum, was announced in August as successor to Colette Pierce Burnette in the role of Newfields CEO and president.
Two major announcements were Eli Lilly and Co.’s additional $9.8 billion investment into its LEAP Research and Innovation District campus and SK Hynix’s $3.87 billion semiconductor packaging facility at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette.
Cities across central and southern Indiana, including the entire metro Indianapolis area, were in the path of totality for the April 8 solar eclipse, creating a once-in-a-lifetime tourism opportunity for cities along the route.
More than $8.5 billion in development is underway across downtown, with more coming as projects in their earliest stages wind their way through the planning process.
Lilly said the expansion is expected to add 400 full-time jobs for highly skilled workers, including engineers, scientists, operations personnel and lab technicians.
Country music band Turnpike Troubadours, along with bluegrass-influenced band Trampled by Turtles and singer Tyler Halverson, opened the arena Nov. 22 at the Yard at Fishers District, east of Interstate 69, between East 106th and East 116th streets and southeast of Ikea.
Officials say the hospital, with three 16-story patient towers, should receive its top beam—or be “topped out”—next spring.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. inched closer to its vision for its LEAP Research and Innovation District in Lebanon this year with more than $100 million in additional state funding, steps to secure water for the site and additional private investment.
In addition to its slate of annual conventions like National FFA, FDIC International, Gen Con and the Performance Racing Industry—which each bring in 30,000 or more people—the city played host to numerous one-time events, including the 2024 NBA All-Star weekend, the three-night Taylor Swift The Eras Tour stop, and the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.
A string of Big Tech companies announced plans this year for large-scale data centers around the state, prompting pushback from a consumer advocacy group that is concerned about the amount of electricity these facilities will consume.
The ripple effects of Starbucks closing a Monument Circle location in October 2022 continued to resonate in 2024, when multiple coffee companies opened in new downtown locations.
Indianapolis-based Keystone Group has been working on the 170-room hotel, a $101 million adaptive reuse of the historic Illinois Building at 17 W. Market St., since 2018.
Scarlet Lane Brewing Co., which operated five area locations until just over a year ago, plans to shut down its flagship brewpub in McCordsville at the end of the year, marking an end to the 10-year-old business.
As Trump previews a hard-line immigration policy including militarized mass deportation of illegal immigrants, many in the tech industry are pushing him to expand legal immigration for high-skilled workers.
This year, both a presidential and gubernatorial election year for Indiana, provided no shortage of political news.
The proposal from the Food and Drug Administration and mandated by Congress is intended to reassure consumers about the safety of makeup, baby powder and other personal care products.
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