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Indianapolis-based consumer ratings service Angie’s List announced today that it has signed on as a co-sponsor of Sarah Fisher’s team in this year’s Indianapolis 500. The company declined to divulge terms of the deal. Fisher, driving the No. 67 Dollar General car, will make her eighth start in Sunday’s race. She qualified 21st and will […]
Indiana’s treasurer says he won’t invest more state money in the corporate debt of companies receiving federal money after two funds he controls were stung by more than $1 million in combined losses in the Chrysler bankruptcy. Treasurer Richard Mourdock said today the Indiana State Police Pension Fund lost $147,400 and the Major Moves Construction […]
Indianapolis-based F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc. has been chosen to build a street-level enclosed connector linking the Indiana Convention Center to Lucas Oil Stadium, the Indiana Stadium & Convention Building Authority announced yesterday afternoon. Wilhelm, which bid $11.8 million for the project, submitted the lowest bid of six companies vying for the work, said Lori […]
Indianapolis pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co. has formed a diabetes marketing and education partnership with the Minnesota-based device maker Medtronic Inc., the two companies announced today. Lilly and Medtronic plan to use their marketing and sales teams to improve educational materials about Type 1 diabetes available to patients and physicians. Type 1 diabetes occurs […]
Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc. is supporting Target Corp.’s efforts to maintain ownership of its real estate rather than transferring it into a separate company as an activist shareholder is suggesting. Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund engaged in a proxy battle with the Minneapolis-based retailer, is proposing that Target put its real estate […]
Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc. is supporting Target Corp.’s efforts to maintain ownership of its real estate rather than transferring it into a separate company as an activist shareholder is suggesting. Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund engaged in a proxy battle with the Minneapolis-based retailer, is proposing that Target put its real estate […]
Columbus, Ohio-based Franklin University has signed a lease in the Allison Pointe Office Park on the northeast side of Indianapolis and plans to offer classes beginning this fall, the college said today. The 107-year-old school, which has enrollment of 11,000 at its main campus in Columbus and three suburban locations, announced April 21 that it […]
A new poll shows college grads are worried about finding jobs â?? no surprise there, considering the sorry
state of the economy.
But the poll, taken by Edison Media Research, also shows a third of them fretting about their…
Kroger is looking at land in Zionsville for a new store. The Cincinnati-based grocer is in talks with the owners of Altum’s Garden Center along Michigan Road between 106th and 116th Streets,…
The anchor tenant in the Binford Medical-Professional Office Complex at the corner of 65th Street and Binford Boulevard has closed temporarily, citing a lack of other tenants in the high-profile medical building. The shut-down is the latest in a string of setbacks for what was to have been a five-building, $29 million development. The Binford […]
President Barack Obama wants drivers to go farther on a gallon of gasoline and cause less damage to the environment – and be willing to pick up the tab. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Obama today plans to announce the first-ever national emissions limits for cars and trucks, as well as require a 35.5-miles-per-gallon […]
Not content with just catching a show at the Kennedy Center, first lady Michelle Obama made a clear statement with this week’s trip to New York: She sees value in the arts and is interested in promoting them.
And not just mass appeal…
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Indianapolis-based F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc. has been chosen to build a street-level enclosed connector linking the Indiana Convention Center to Lucas Oil Stadium, the Indiana Stadium & Convention Building Authority announced this afternoon. Wilhelm, which bid $11.8 million for the project, submitted the lowest bid of six companies […]
High schools that achieve the biggest graduation rate increases between now and next spring could receive up to $20,000 – money that would be split among each school’s principal and select staff members. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 State Superintendent of Schools Tony Bennett said today the goal of the new program is to […]
Revenue and jobs at the nation’s gambling halls fell last year as Americans became less willing to risk their money, according to a report released today by the national gambling industry’s trade association. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The study by the American Gaming Association found revenue nationwide was down 4.7 percent in 2008, […]
Police in Cumberland, east of Indianapolis, are searching for people who set off a pipe bomb in Lions Park late last night. After neighbors reported an explosion, officers found a foot-wide crater in the ground and a smoldering duffel bag they believe contained at least one bomb. They found a second duffel bag with several […]
Hubler Chevrolet Center Inc. of Shelbyville and several other General Motors dealerships in Indiana are on the chopping block after receiving notice Friday that their dealership agreements would not be renewed when they expire late next year. But most dealers are keeping quiet about the notifications as they hold out hope they can persuade GM […]
Hubler Chevrolet Center Inc. of Shelbyville and several other General Motors dealerships in Indiana are on the chopping block after receiving notice Friday that their dealership agreements would not be renewed when they expire late next year. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 But most dealers are keeping quiet about the notifications as they hold […]
Uninsured drivers are on the road in increasing numbers these days, sticking legal drivers with the bill in accidents and boosting the cost of insurance. Fox 59 will have more at 10 p.m.
Organizations hosting events at Lucas Oil Stadium already expected to pay more than they did at the RCA Dome, but some fear the Capital Improvement Board’s financial difficulties could drive costs even higher. The concern is greater for not-for-profits operating on tight budgets that likely will pay at least 25 percent more to use the […]
