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Swancy’s Auto Laundry: Car wash does work the hard way Don’t look for automation at 88-year-old Swancy’s

“It’s sort of the last of the old-time car washes,” said longtime customer Turner Woodard, an Indianapolis businessman and antique car collector. “You can just sit there, read the paper and watch your car get washed … and dried by hand.” No question, Swancy’s is one-of-a-kind. It has been operating at 934 N. Senate Ave. since 1942. For 23 years before that, it was located on a long-vanished alley nearby. It has been owned by the same family for 88…

Washington Township tests anti-tax mood

A north-side Marion County school district is reigniting the property-tax furor by rolling out a plan to spend as much as
$200 million on renovations and new construction. Washington Township is the first school district in the county to unveil
major capital projects since residents howled in protest last summer against property-tax increases that averaged 35 percent.

City ready to launch bid for USA Basketball

Indianapolis is poised to launch a bid
to attract USA Basketball’s headquarters from its Colorado Springs home. The not-for-profit national governing body for men’s
and women’s basketball in the United States recently put out a request for proposals for a new headquarters city.

Parkwood West sets pace for north-side office space: Duke project boasts upscale amenities, top-level rent

Duke Realty Corp.’s $125 million Parkwood West development well may be the new trendsetter for future office complexes along the burgeoning north-side Meridian Street corridor. One West, a five-story, 186,000-squarefoot Class A office building, is the first of three structures rising from the Parkwood West project at the northwest corner of Meridian and 96th streets. The upscale design as well as the added amenities that include a parking garage-rare in the suburban market-could become the rule instead of the exception….

Commentary: Exclusion isn’t a Christian value

Here’s an idea. Let’s establish a chamber of commerce for whites only. Yep, just for “us.” Let’s join forces for further empowerment, more success and greater marketplace impact. It is time we came out of the closet and enjoyed the fruits that living white brings our companies, our employees, and our homes and families. Let’s call it the Indiana White Chamber of Commerce. We’ll get together to celebrate being white and to further our association, serve the community, enhance one…

Indiana Court of Appeals reverses annexation decision:

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s decision in a northern Indiana annexation case, citing a recent ruling on the subject from the Indiana Supreme Court. In the case, In the Matter of the Annexation Proposed by Ordinance No. 2004-11-38, et al. v. Chris Fetcko, et al., 45A03-0611-CV-549, the city of Crown Point appealed the trial court’s order granting the motion for involuntary dismissal filed by Fetcko and other remonstrators to a city ordinance annexing certain land. Crown…

Embattled city to get lift from resurgence of Remy:

B e a t e n – d ow n Anderson finally has some good auto-related news: Remy International Inc., headquartered in the industrial city of 60,000, is poised to survive- perhaps even thrive-thanks to a bankruptcy reorganization plan that halves its debt, along with other moves that make it more competitive. “Frankly, I think this is a great piece of information for Anderson,” Anderson Mayor Kevin Smith said of the company’s trip through bankruptcy court, which is expected to…

Endowments on rise for small not-for-profits

Leaders of small not-for-profits often are so concerned with day-to-day survival that they have little–if any–time to worry
about saving for the future. A growing number of local organizations are bucking that trend, taking a proactive approach to
build an endowment its leaders hope will result in more stable, predictable income.

EYE ON THE PIE: Save our cities and towns from neglect

Whose face is on the dime? It’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That’s no arbitrary choice. FDR had polio as an adult. He fought back and became governor of New York and then the only four-term president of the United States. For two decades, from 1938 forward, The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis campaigned to fight polio epidemics. Each January, children and adults contributed to the national “March of Dimes” to raise funds for research and treatment. FDR was the symbol of…

Can multilevel marketing cure high drug costs?: Texas firm passing out free drug discount cards in Indiana

Here’s a new strategy to control spiraling drug prices: multilevel marketing. That’s right. A new company called NuLegacy International LLC is deploying the tactics of Amway Corp. to give Americans-particularly those without health insurance-a break on prescription drug costs. The Texas-based company’s key selling points? Its cards are free. And they’re good for potentially large discounts off the full price of prescription drugs. Drugstores, in theory, get a higher volume of customers because of the discounts. “The timing is now,”…

India deal boosts Bastian

Little more than a decade ago, Bastian Material Handling had annual sales of less than $35 million. Since 2000, its revenue
has doubled, to $80 million, and its business interests don’t just cross the state, they circle the globe.

Dunkin’ Donuts’ expansion plans may create coffee clash: Chain could put damper on Starbucks’ local growth

The return of Dunkin’ Donuts to the metropolitan area last month gave java lovers here their first whiff of a brewing coffee war. The Boston-area-based chain’s Carmel location is one of 80 franchised stores slated to open within the next eight years. Its re-entry into the market is part of a national campaign to more than double the number of its 6,000 locations by reinventing itself to challenge Seattle’s Starbucks. Dunkin’ Donuts is rolling out concept stores with hipper furniture…

Machine shops basking in profits, good times

Machine shops, the places where machines carve chunks of metal into parts used in everything from prosthetics to hydraulic pumps, are enjoying some of their best times in a decade. Industry observers say the companies are more financially sound than they’ve been since the ’90s, and that they continue buying equipment to make themselves more […]

Beck joins Geneva Capital Group

Steven J. Beck has joined the Chicago-based commercial real estate and investment firm Geneva Capital Group as managing director of its office in downtown Indianapolis. Beck most recently was involved in helping raise a seed-capital fund called IVC Equity Partners. Prior to IVC Equity Partners, he launched and was president of the Indiana Venture Center, […]

Select Snacks might close Jeffersonville plant

Chicago-based Select Snacks Co. Inc. has told state officials in Indianapolis that it might close its Jeffersonville plant in December. About 245 jobs are at stake, according to The Courier-Journal of Louisville. A buyer is interested in the plant, which has been put up for sale as part of the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, […]

Realtor complaints will rise, regulator predicts

The rising tide of mortgage foreclosures will result in an increase in complaints about real estate agents, the chairman of the Indiana Real Estate Commission told The Times of Munster in an interview. Tim Reed, a Valparaiso agent who has been a commission member since 1992 and the chairman since 1998, said many homeowners don’t […]

Penn Centre at street level

Here are two street-level renderings of Penn Centre, courtesy of Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf. The first shows the Omega Building along Maryland Street, and the second is a view from Pennsylvania Street. These still are early concepts and the developers…

Enterprise Center small-business incubator sold

The near-east-side Indianapolis Enterprise Center has been sold to an undisclosed buyer from California. Seller Scott Meyers purchased the 200,000-square-foot incubator in May 2005 and has since added 34 companies and 10,000 square feet of office and warehouse space. It has a total of 72 tenants who share equipment and pay lower rent until they […]

Duke to build again near Keystone, I-465

Locally based Duke Realty Corp. plans to build another north-side office building, this time along River Road near Keystone Avenue and Interstate 465. And Duke already has signed a major tenant, locally based Advantage Health Solutions Inc., which will take 40,000 square feet of the 120,000-square-foot, four-story building. The building will be constructed on six […]

Lilly to push ahead on inhaled insulin

Eli Lilly and Co. today said it would plow ahead with plans to develop an inhaled insulin product even as competitor Pfizer Inc. announced it would stop making its poor-selling Exubera version. Lilly President and Chief Operating Officer made the comment while discussing the Indianapolis drugmaker’s third-quarter results. Profit was up 6 percent, to $926.3 […]