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Outlook remains grim for commercial real estate

Expect another year of rising vacancies, declining property values and distressed sales in the central Indiana commercial
real estate
market. That’s the message from Colliers Turley Martin Tucker in its annual State of Real Estate report.

Property tax caps heading to Indiana voters

The Indiana Senate has given final approval to a proposal that would allow voters to decide whether property tax limits belong
in the state constitution.

Also this week:

“Cheech & Chong—Get It Legal,” Jan. 22 at the Murat Theatre. Details

here

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“Bedknobs and Broomsticks,”
Jan. 22-23 at the Artcraft Theatre. Details

here

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Winter Nights Films: “Arsenic and Old Lace,” Jan. 22 at
the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Details

here

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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
and soloist Yuju Wang play Rachmaninoff, Jan. 22-23 at Hilbert Circle Theatre. Details

here

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Hip-Hop and Global Culture

Jan. 21
Clowes Hall

The panelists for this open-to-the-public discussion of the positive and
negative impact of hip-hop includes Beyonce’s manager, Mathew Knowles; activist and BET host Jeff Johnson; and Sandy
Denton, the Pepa of the group Salt-N-Pepa. It’s free, but tickets are required. Details here.

 

“Romeo and Juliet”

Through Feb. 27
Indiana Repertory Theatre

In the IRT’s new staging of the classic, the
language is still Shakespeare’s, but the setting is post-World War II America, the Montagues are white, and the Capulets
are black. Two new-to the-IRT actors, Chicago’s Claire Aubin Fort and Erik Hellman, play the title roles in a cast rounded
out by such familiar IRT faces as David Alan Anderson (“Looking Over the President’s Shoulder”), Ryan Artzberger
(“Rabbit Hole”) and Ben Tebbe (“A Christmas Carol”). Details here.
 

ICO Conversations: Adam Golka

Jan. 23
Indiana History Center’s Basile Theatre

The title is a little misleading. Yes,
there will be a conversation with 2009 American Pianists Association Fellow Adam Golka. But the early evening show also includes
music by the likes of Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Bartok.

The evening also marks the launch of ICOnic, the Chamber
Orchestra’s new series of events for young professionals. This time, the party moves over to Zing Restaurant for post-show
socializing. Details here.
 

Company news

Hey, wait a minute! That was the reaction, somewhat delayed, by the Indiana chapter of the National Federation
of Independent Business, to a late-December change to federal health reform legislation. The
Senate version of reform exempts companies with fewer than 50 employees from a requirement to provide
health benefits. But in late December, Senate leaders made a change for construction firms, saying the
exemption would apply only if they have five or fewer employees. The change was a favor to union groups,
which said non-union construction contractors would have an advantage over unionized shops that do provide
health benefits. Local NFIB leaders staged a protest/press conference last week, calling on Congress to “strip this
job-killing provision from a final health care bill.”

Orbis Education, a locally based maker
of nursing-education software, received $8 million in venture capital from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Lightspeed
Venture Partners. Founded in 2003, Orbis offers online instruction to help universities and hospitals
train new nurses. A key hurdle in the looming nursing shortage is the lack of capacity for nursing schools
to accept all qualified applicants. Last year, it had $4.5 million in revenue and 33 employees. Orbis
aims to boost its work force past 50 by the end of the year. Orbis had previously raised $4 million from
family, friends and angel investors.
 
Watch out, Eli Lilly and Co. A Greenwood pharmaceutical
firm plans to build a $28 million insulin facility there to make a cheaper version of the diabetes-fighting medicine. According
to the Daily Journal of Franklin, Elona Biotechnologies expects its 50,000-square-foot facility to employ as many
as 70 people. Greeenwood officials are considering $8.5 million in incentives, including some loans,
to help Elona build the facility and get it approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Elona
was founded in the late 1980s by former Lilly  researcher Ron Zimmerman.

West Lafayette-based
IVDiagnostics LLC won a $124,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to further
its cancer diagnostics research. The Small Business and Innovation Research Phase 1 grant will pay for
the company to improve the design of its IVFLow medical device, which analyzes and monitors tumor cells without taking blood
from a patient.

Physicians working in a surgery center connected to Community Hospital South kicked
in $500,000 to help the hospital complete a massive expansion. The gift, given by 65 doctors, boosts
to $1.2 million the money raised for the project by the philanthropic arm of Community Health Network.
The $130 million expansion will add 40 beds. It is scheduled to open in mid-2010.

People

Dr. Kristine M. Powell, a pediatrician, joined St. Vincent Physician Network in Indianapolis. A graduate
of Indiana University in Bloomington and the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Powell was most recently
a visiting professor at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital.

Dr. James
Perry has been elected president of the St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville medical staff for a
two-year term. He is the obstetrics medical director for St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville and is affiliated
with Southwest Women’s Health.

Kathleen Marrs, a biology professor, has been named associate
dean of academic affairs at the School of Science at IUPUI.

Health care Q&A: Greg Pemberton

Greg Pemberton, a health care attorney at Ice Miller LLP, discussed the biggest changes he expects to come out of the federal
health reform bills. “It’s not going to be business as usual,” he said.

State Republicans try to block health reform mandates

Joint resolutions in the state Legislature seek to amend the state constitution to block enforcement of provisions in the
federal bills that would require individuals to buy insurance and all but the smallest employers to help pay for it.