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JOHNSON COUNTY Plan may improve Old Town Greenwood city engineers recently concluded that a building dating back to 1860 in the Old Town district might need to come down to ease congestion and allow growth in the historic region of the city south of Indianapolis. The Van Valer Law Firm building and other structures on […]
Hoosier Heartland Highway pumps up hope on prairie Expressway construction starting two years early LAFAYETTE-For years, they’ve driven on little more than paved-over wagon trails pioneers carved into the hills nestling the Wabash River. Motorists on State Road 25 between Logansport and Lafayette have grown desperate for a replacement: the final, 33-mile western leg of […]
HAMILTON COUNTY Carmel lauded for wastewater purification leadership Carmel’s wastewater treatment process is so innovative that it’s been judged a “best practice.” The Washington, D.C.-based National League of Cities maintains a database of best practices for its 18,000 members. In October 2005, Carmel opened the nation’s first municipal BioPasteur system to process solid biological waste, […]
HENDRICKS COUNTY Pretzels moving into Brownsburg – s Hanover will open a 176,000-square-foot warehouse in Brownsburg that could employ up to 40 workers. It will be Synder’s first distribution center in Indiana, according to Lauth Property Group spokesman Marc Lotter. The pretzel maker is leasing one-third of the space in Eaglepoint Five, a building in […]
Fast-growing burb gets branded HANCOCK COUNTY – McCordsville may be a small town, but it thinks big. The fast-growing suburb in northwestern Hancock County has hired a marketing firm, Indianapolis-based Hirons & Co., to launch the brand, er … town. “Next Stop McCordsville” is the new slogan, complete with an interurban rail car, harkening to […]
BOONE COUNTY Zoning approval sought for assisted-living center An assisted-living provider is seeking to rezone property on Michigan Road north of 116th Street to construct a facility that would include 200 residential units and an Alzheimer’s wing. The company is in the beginning stages of the approval process. The company’s identity will be revealed after […]
Rapid growth in the high-tech fields of biotechnology and life science has made Indiana a shining example of how promoting emerging industries can transform an agricultural and manufacturingbased economy into a national leader in innovation. It has done so by creating an environment in which knowledge-based businesses can thrive. Building on this success, Indiana continues to position itself as a leader in emerging technologies. A new tax law that took effect this year will present another major step toward this…
I know you have a good heart. Evidence is beginning to mount, however, that we are sliding down a path we cannot easily climb back up. In the vernacular of my old hood, Ben you are killing us! The world is faced with two problems, massively slowing growth and accelerating inflation. You picked the slowing growth side to attack head on. You and your back-room cronies slashed interest rates from 5.25 percent in August to 3 percent now, with more…
“How can we have greater influence on our employees? We hire good people, we spend lots of money to train them, we tell them specifically what we want, and we motivate them to comply. In spite of all of these efforts, too often we still don’t get the desired response.” As a psychologist, I’m often asked this type of question, and I know the answer is complicated. Sometimes the employee has personal, i.e. psychological, reasons for not performing. But as…
At IBJ press time, the General Assembly was set to close another session without significant change to the state’s complex alcohol distribution system, ensuring another year of wrangling between wineries and wholesalers. A proposal to raise the direct shipping limit to 10,000 cases failed. So did a broader deregulation bill brought by a new Indiana wine drinker’s group, VinSense.
Professional and collegiate basketball are on the brink of a landmark agreement that hoops insiders said will change the landscape
of the sport in this country. Proponents say it would be good for basketball, but others say it’s an attempt to further commercialize
the sport.
A friend of mine did a project once with Indiana rocker John Mellencamp and said he was one of the biggest jerks he’d ever met. It put a bad taste in my mouth. Not one who was wild about his music to begin with, I liked him even less after that. Well, the Hoosier musical icon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 10 after failing to get enough votes when nominated in both 2003 and…
A federal bill expected to receive a vote from the Senate this year would trigger the most radical changes to the U.S. patent system in more than 50 years. Supporters of the Patent Reform Act of 2007 want to switch to a “first-to-file” system that would grant patent rights to the first person to file an application. The United States is the lone country still using a “first-to-invent” system that rewards an inventor who first conceives the innovation, even if…
In 2005, assessors valued the 559-acre Indianapolis Motor Speedway at $34.4 million for property tax purposes. According to
the latest Marion County reassessment, it now has a market value of $170 million. Thousands of other businesses also would
see extraordinary spikes in property values, according to an IBJ analysis of the latest assessment data.
As an intellectual property lawyer, it is often my duty to deliver unexpected answers to questions with seemingly innocent intentions: It’s OK to include a short clip from “Animal House” in our company’s annual meeting presentation, right? As long as we cite our sources, we can send our customers copies of helpful newspaper articles, right? It’s not a problem to embed a nifty video we found on the Internet on our own Web site, right? Unfortunately, incorrect assumptions like these…
Like the people who can solve a Rubik’s Cube behind their backs, origami artists have thought processes the rest of us mere mortals can’t fathom. Even more so than with chess masters, it’s difficult not to be awed by people who can think 50 steps ahead in order to make recognizably representational beasts out of paper, without the use of scissors. The new Indianapolis Museum of Art exhibition “Squares-Folds-Life: Contemporary Origami by Robert J. Lang” (through July 20) illustrates the…
Of this, that and the other while sifting through the e-mails that made it clear many of you still believe the Indiana Pacers are the embodiment of evil and incompetence. Oh, well; I tried. It was just a few years ago, wasn’t it, when Indiana college basketball was in a swoon? Now you see the Hoosier influence here, there and everywhere. When the NCAA Tournament pairings are announced, four Indiana teams-Butler, Purdue, Notre Dame and Indiana-are assured of being in…
With the possible exception of the people who run this newspaper and either allow me to write for it or haven’t noticed that I do, David Little is the greatest newspaperman in America today. Little is the editor of the Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record, who declared his paper a Britney-free publication-No Spears, None Of The Time. He wrote in his column: “This is a woman who seems to have mental health issues, shall we say. We’d never make light of a…
A nationally renowned headhunter is tracking down candidates to fill the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association’s top job in hopes of having a new president in place by June 1. Industry observers expect plenty of applicants given an upcoming hospitality building spree. “This is potentially the chance of a lifetime for someone to come in and make a huge difference,” said Amanda Cecil, an assistant professor in IUPUI’s Convention and Event Management Department. She called the Indianapolis market a “gold…
Eric Tobias, the IT architect behind Carmel-based online battery supplier Technuity Inc., now is energizing another startup, Indianapolis-based iGoDigital, a fast-growing player in “recommendation” software for retailers. Tobias, 31, was chief technology officer of Technuity, which distributes batteries, carrying cases and electronics accessories. He left the company, once known as Batteries.com, after it was acquired in November by Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Audiovox Corp. for $16.5 million, plus the repayment of $4 million in debt. The deal added $30 million to Audiovox’s…
