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Purdue University President Martin Jischke and his wife, Patty, have bought a condominium in West Lafayette as they anticipate his retiring June 30 after five years at the post. The Chicago-area native said he plans to retain his board appointments, including Evansville-based utility Vectren Corp., and devote time to favorite charities, particularly causes related to […]

Thomas J. Snyder, the former president of Anderson-based autoparts supplier Remy International Corp., will succeed Gerald Lamkin as president of Ivy Tech Community College. Snyder was chosen over the other finalist, Thomas D. Klincar, a commandant at Community College of the Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. The process was marred over […]

A Nevada company said today it has chosen Pike County in southwestern Indiana as a location for an 50-million gallon ethanol plant and a 30-megawatt electric power generating facility. Ripatti Group, based in Reno, said heat and electricity created by the power plant would operate the ethanol plant, with the balance of the electricity to […]

Redcats USA will spend $21 million over several years to upgrade its clothing-catalog operation on Southeastern Avenue, the New York company and Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. Forty-two jobs will be added to the 1,000 Redcats employs at the site and a warehouse in Plainfield. The improvements include computers, equipment and facilities. Redcats received […]

Indiana’s economy would shrink nearly 5.9 percent if a severe flu pandemic broke out, according to a report released today by Trust for America’s Health, a Washington, D.C., not-for-profit. That would be the 10th-worst impact among states, the organization projected. In dollars, the setback would amount to $14 billion. The report went on to say […]

The president of Terre Haute Economic Development Corp. wants to look deeper into Pfizer Inc.’s troubles with its new inhaled insulin before Vigo County officials complete their offer of $4.5 million in tax-increment finance incentives for the plant that makes the product. Steve Witt told the County Council it would be “good business” to learn […]

Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund has launched a $50 million fund as it continues to diversify its $16.1 billion in assets into alternative investments. Investment Fund A increases the Indiana Investment Fund that PERF created last year to $155 million. In August, PERF decided to diversify 15 percent, from 5 percent, of its $16.1 billion […]

Evansville-based Berry Plastics Corp. will build a 600,000-square-foot warehouse and add 49 jobs in Evansville, Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The jobs will be in addition to the 1,200 already working at its headquarters and manufacturing operations in the southwest Indiana city. Berry announced March 12 that it had merged with Covalence Specialty Materials […]

AM General Corp., which makes the Humvee military vehicle and H2 consumer sport-utility vehicle, is adding 17,600 square feet to its cramped, 35,000-square-foot headquarters in South Bend. The additional training facilities and meeting rooms will make more space for working on projects, according to the South Bend Tribune. Few new jobs in addition to the […]

A company that services Honda Motor Co. plants is considering Greensburg and at least one other Indiana site for an expansion that would create 400 jobs, according to the Greensburg Daily News. Vicki Kellerman, who heads economic development in the city between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, said several states are competing for the company in one […]

Mann Properties’ request to develop 71 acres in Crown Hill Cemetery into residences and retail was denied this afternoon on a stinging 4-3 vote by the Metropolitan Development Commission. The decision cannot be appealed. Mann offered $5.23 million for the tract of woods and wetlands at the north end of the nation’s third-largest cemetery. Crown […]

Trustees of Ivy Tech Community College might choose a new president for the college at their meeting tomorrow, though it’s unclear whether controversy over their passing over Executive Vice President Carol D’Amico for the job will derail that timetable. The trustees are meeting in private session at 1 p.m. at the Conrad Indianapolis downtown to […]

The Metropolitan Development Commission is meeting at 1 p.m. to determine whether Indianapolis-based Mann Properties can buy 71 acres in Crown Hill Cemetery and develop the wooded tract into retail and residences. Crown Hill wants revenue from the sale to help maintain the historic cemetery, but some neighborhood groups oppose the project. The decision has […]

International Steel Services Inc. of Pittsburgh, Penn., said today that its Biofuels International Inc. unit has bought an option on a site in Rockport on which to build a $180 million ethanol plant. The Spencer County plant would produce 100 million gallons a year but be expandable to 200 million gallons annually. Groundbreaking at Lincolnland […]

Evansville-based Liberty Services has sued the federal government in U.S. District Court in Evansville over Liberty’s production and distribution of the Liberty Dollar, reports the Courier & Press. The suit seeks to force the U.S. Mint and others to remove a warning from the mint’s Web site stating that using the Liberty Dollar, which is […]

Indianapolis-based Arbor Homes Inc. announced plans yesterday to build a 227-house subdivision in Marion to take advantage of jobs cropping up at the Dollar General warehouse and other new employers. It’s the largest such development in the city between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne since the 1960s, according to the Chronicle-Tribune. The houses will cost $90,000 […]

A plant in Siloam Springs, Ark., operated by Bluffton-based Franklin Electric Corp. will eliminate 200 jobs as some production of low-thrust submersible motors is moved to its factory in Linares, Mexico. By July, 290 workers will remain at the Arkansas site, according to The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne.

Indalex Inc. of Lincolnshire, Ill., said today it will expand its aluminum extrusion plant in Connersville. In exchange, the company received government incentives worth nearly $3.4 million. Indalex plans a 100,000-square-foot addition to its plant to make room for a 6,000-ton extrusion press. The expansion is expected to generate 62 new jobs and $22 million […]

Unlike the heated opposition swelling in northwest Indiana, leaders in Illinois are clamoring for the Illiana bypass to be built as quickly as possible, according to The Times of Munster. A meeting called in Porter County in Indiana earlier this month to discuss the project attracted 1,000, most of whom expressed deep reservations. Yet, Illinois […]