Area home construction permit filings rise for 5th straight month
Hamilton, Johnson and Marion counties saw huge surges in single-family building permit filings in November.
Hamilton, Johnson and Marion counties saw huge surges in single-family building permit filings in November.
Developer Keystone Group has discovered “fragments of human remains” at the construction site, on property that was mostly occupied by the city’s first public cemetery in the 1800s.
Another incentive for builders: The inventory of previously occupied homes for sale is likely to remain tight because many homeowners have locked in low mortgage rates.
The grant replenishes United Way of Central Indiana’s Capital Projects Fund, which helps not-for-profits purchase, build, upgrade or expand their facilities to better serve their clients.
The Hogsett administration has not yet released an ending date for the closure and has not committed to additional mitigation measures for the vendors.
A planned reconstruction of the Westfield Boulevard Bridge will require lane restrictions this month followed by a 100-day street closure. It comes on the heels of a major reconstruction of Broad Ripple Avenue that took much longer than expected.
The project will double the size of the current business school at Purdue University, which hasn’t had a tuition hike since 2012.
Six of the area’s nine counties saw a year-over-year increase in single-family building permit filings in October.
For the first time since March 2021, every Indianapolis-area county reported growth in single-family building permit filings.
The project is HighGround’s third age-restricted luxury apartment development in Hamilton County following GrandView, which is under construction in Westfield, and CityView, which is planned in Fishers.
Curt Garner, Chipotle’s chief customer and technology officer, said the goal is not to replace workers but to meet the rising demands of serving customers who order online in addition to those who come into the store.
With billions of dollars in projects in process or on drawing boards, it’s estimated that Indiana’s construction workforce alone will need to grow to 275,000 workers by 2026, up from about 164,000 now. We shouldn’t ignore half of our population as we seek to meet that need.
August’s jump in filings was aided by big increases in Marion, Hamilton, Hendricks and Boone counties.
In a statement, UAW President Shawn Fain called the move “a shameful, barely-veiled threat by Ford to cut jobs” at a plant that’s not open yet.
Since, 1968, Wilson Farm Market has operated along U.S. 31 in Arcadia, overseen by three generations of Wilsons. However, that might not be true for the next one.
Mayor Scott Fadness told the Fishers City Council during a budget presentation Monday night that the city will solicit contractor bids for the project in April. He said the city has set aside about $20 million for the project.
Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years, but the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters.
The Indianapolis area might be showing signs of emerging from a single-family construction slump that began early last year.
With at least $9.5 billion in development projects in the downtown pipeline over the next decade, construction industry leaders are under pressure to find enough qualified workers to ensure the work gets off the ground.
Single-family building permit filings in central Indiana have fallen on a year-over-year basis for the past 17 months and in 20 of the past 22 months.