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MONROE COUNTY Self-publisher eyes new offices Expansion plans for Bloomington’s Author Solutions Inc. likely will eventually include a new building near the firm’s offices at State Road 37 and Second Street. Author Solutions CEO Kevin Weiss tells IBJ he has been looking around at sites to accommodate an influx of 130 new employees in the […]

TIPPECANOE COUNTY New research-to-market institute will be based on Purdue campus Purdue University will be part of a group that will use a $25 million grant to help turn health discoveries into commercial products through the creation of the Indiana Clinical Translational Sciences Institute. The National Institutes of Health will give the five-year grant to […]

HAMILTON COUNTY Carmel to sing virtues of Great American Songbook Carmel’s new 1,600-seat Regional Performing Arts Center has attracted a permanent resident. The Feinstein Foundation for the Education and Preservation of the Great American Songbook plans to relocate its headquarters there. The Feinstein Foundation, currently based in Los Angeles, holds museum artifacts that originally belonged […]

BOONE COUNTY Internet provider gets reprieve Lebanon Utilities will continue offering Internet service despite calls from a few utility board members to cancel the service. At a meeting in early June, the Lebanon Utilities Service Board voted 3-2 to continue providing the iLines service through a restructuring that establishes a telecommunications department within the city’s […]

SHELBY COUNTY Shelbyville troubles shut down Kings Title & Abstract Co. Troubles that surfaced in October at the Shelbyville office of Kings Title & Abstract Co. have now scuttled the company, one of the state’s largest title insurance agencies, and led to felony charges against one of its former employees. New Castle-based Kings Title ceased […]

JOHNSON COUNTY High fuel costs boost firm Casting Technologies Co., which makes lighter automotive parts that improve vehicles’ fuel efficiency, will expand this summer and add 40 new employees as part of its most recent $3 million expansion. It is the company’s second expansion in a year. The company, which employs 110 at its 183,000-square-foot […]

HANCOCK COUNTY Pennsy Trail will grow to 5.3 miles The City of Greenfield will double the size of the Pennsy Trail, a 2.6-mile recreational trail atop former Pennsylvania Railroad bed that runs east-west, south of downtown Greenfield. Last month the city was awarded an $800,000 grant under the “Hoosiers on the Move” statewide trails plan. […]

HENDRICKS COUNTY Midwest Hospitality Group adding hotel in Avon Midwest Hospitality Group has filed plans to build a 73-room, four story Fairfield Inn and Suites in Avon, one of nine hotels the Avon-based company is building. Midwest Hospitality owns and operates six hotels in Central Indiana, including a Super 8 Motel in Avon. It’s expanding […]

Colossal signs may welcome visitors MADISON COUNTY-Anderson could become the city-of-the-enormous-sign. Most recently, the city zoning board approved plans for a 644-square-foot, Las Vegaslike electronic sign for the new Hoosier Park racino along Interstate 69. City officials believe the sign, which features a 16-foot video screen, will help draw the 50,000 people who are expected […]

Spotlight on Madison County Named for James Madison, the fourth U.S. president (1809-1817) 5 LARGEST CITIES/TOWNS population Anderson …………………………………..57,496 Elwood ………………………………………..9,096 Alexandria ……………………………………5,888 Pendleton …………………………………….3,919 Chesterfield ………………………………….2,780 5 LARGEST EMPLOYERS employees Guide Corp……………………………………1,500 Saint John’s Health System ……………..1,500 Red Gold…………………………………………900 Atlas Cold Storage…………………………….600 Delphi Automotive Holding………………….450 COUNTY MSA* Population 131,312 1,695,037 . Median age 39.2 […]