BICENTENNIAL: Strong leadership caused education to flourish in Indianapolis
Public, private institutions grew with an expanding city.
Public, private institutions grew with an expanding city.
Location advantages grounded the state as leader in making things.
The city became center for food and huge gatherings.
The built environment has been shaped by iconic people, structures.
Transportation, business growth propelled new buildings and renewal.
Neighborhoods in most U.S. cities, including Indianapolis, are increasingly isolated from each other by income and home values, according to analysis by national real estate brokerage Redfin.
Indiana’s latest pitch to lure business received national attention and stirred up some controversy. Yet that is exactly what a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal is meant to do. So, mission accomplished.
I wholeheartedly agree with the theme advocated last week by fellow IBJ columnist Mickey Kim that, throughout our country’s history, a bet against America has been a bad bet.
Manufacturers and other big users band together to lobby, but the vast majority of businesses have no collective ability to drive down their electricity costs.
A division of the Indy Chamber is applying to become a U.S. Small Business Administration-affiliated microlender, a move aimed at boosting its available capital and expanding its territory in a wide-open frontier of finance.
Indianapolis has largely reinvented itself over the last four decades. Most of our modern skyline—the major office towers and hotels that define downtown—came about in the last 20 years. The IUPUI campus took shape in the early 1970s and has continued to grow. The sports venues that helped put us on the map, the vast convention center, our impressive new airport terminal—all built within a generation.
For more than three decades, China’s economy has dazzled observers, with annual growth frequently sneaking into double digits. But the wide-eyed narrative of boundless wealth that has accompanied this growth is suffering a couple of hiccups.
As the GM plant site is redeveloped, Indianapolis should learn from Cardiff’s mistakes.
Preservation group Indiana Landmarks kicked off the public portion of its $25 million capital and endowment campaign Thursday evening, entering the homestretch of a fundraising effort that began in 2010.
We’ve heard the lament for years: Center Township is home to Indianapolis’ greatest concentration of institutions that pay no property taxes.
Two prominent downtown office buildings, the Landmark Center at 1099 N. Meridian St. and the historic Century Building at 36 S. Pennsylvania St., are among properties listed for a July 17 sheriff's sale.
The estate of Richard J. Salewicz, who died in 2010, is named in the foreclosure suit that also targets Tyson Corp., the company he owned on the southwest side of Indianapolis. Local accounting firm London Witte is not part of the court action.
After 18 years, one of the city’s biggest and best-known communications firms is going out of business on Sept. 30.