Southern Indiana commercial furniture manufacturer Jasper Group notified the state’s Department of Workforce Development this week that 110 employees will lose their jobs in August when the company closes its Batesville plant. In addition, the Jasper-based company, which had about 650 employees before the announcement, told the Batesville Herald Tribune that it would shut down […]
Preparations for the 2012 Super Bowl are apparently immune from the economic problems dogging Indianapolis these days. NFL vice president Frank Supovitz told city and business leaders yesterday that the city has exceeded other host sites in terms of financing and prep work. “When Indianapolis came in to present itself for the Super Bowl, all […]
The Indiana Office of Management & Budget yesterday released details of two studies used to arrive at the $13 million it said could be saved by combining the Capital Improvement Board and the Marion County Building Authority into one organization. State officials initially had declined to make the studies available to the public. Indiana Gov. […]
Scott Olson [email protected] The Indiana Office of Management & Budget yesterday released details of two studies used to arrive at the $13 million it said could be saved by combining the Capital Improvement Board and the Marion County Building Authority into one organization. State officials initially had declined to make the studies available to the […]
Residents of North Meridian Heights in Carmel watched for years as development inched closer to their neighborhood of 1950s ranch-style homes on spacious lots. St. Vincent Carmel Hospital opened to the north, upscale condos sprouted to the east, and a $100 million office, hotel and retail project called Meridian & Main began taking shape to […]
“I’m biased,” Hizzoner said recently, “but I think Indianapolis winning the Super Bowl bid in 2012 was nothing short of spectacular.” That makes two of us, Mayor Ballard. Both in bias and thought. It was indeed a spectacular victory for our city on that May day in 2008, capstone of a 30-year effort to use […]
Indianapolis is more than up to the task of hosting the Super Bowl.
Special session will be longer than all had hoped before because of multiple unresolved issues
2010 Final Four launches Web site Ten months from tipoff of the 2010 men’s NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis, the local organizing committee and NCAA have launched a Web site for the event at www.ncaa.com/finalfour. The 2010 NCAA Men’s Final Four is scheduled for April 3 and 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium. The stadium hosted […]
Developer Brown Investments has reached terms with the owners of 43 of 49 homes in the North Meridian Heights neighborhood
in Carmel. Browning plans to demolish the homes to make way for a $100 million commercial development over 17 acres.
A powerful Indiana House committee is scheduled to meet today to discuss possible solutions for a cash-strapped Indianapolis sports agency. A Ways and Means meeting this afternoon is expected to focus on a way to fix the Capital Improvement Board, which runs the city’s convention center and professional sports stadiums. The bill as proposed in […]
Lucas Oil Stadium has made the short list for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. Well, the one-year-old retractable-roof stadium actually made a shortened list.
The list this week of possible…
A proposal to help a struggling Indianapolis sports board hit a legislative speed bump today, while a plan to move a Gary casino seems to have reached a dead end. The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee made several changes to Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ plan to help the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, which runs […]
Lucas Oil Stadium has made the cut of stadiums to be considered for a U.S. bid to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup soccer tournaments. The list this week of possible sites to be included in the U.S. bid was trimmed from the original 58 candidates released in April to 45 sites in 37 […]
Lucas Oil Stadium has made the cut of stadiums to be considered for a U.S. bid to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup soccer tournaments. The list this week of possible sites to be included in the U.S. bid was trimmed from the original 58 candidates released in April to 45 sites in 37 […]
A proposal to help a struggling Indianapolis sports board hit a legislative speed bump yesterday, while a plan to move a Gary casino seems to have reached a dead end. The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee made several changes to Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ plan to help the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, which runs […]
The number of homeless families in the state’s most-populous county grew by 78 percent this year, an official count shows, but the actual number is several times higher, an advocacy group said yesterday. Meanwhile, the total of homeless individuals has declined. The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention said a federally required homeless count on […]
Just Marketing International’s Zak Brown has found himself in the middle of the fight between Formula One teams and organizers. In London the past week and this weekend for the British Grand Prix…
This small town between Indianapolis and Cincinnati was hardly ailing when it landed the economic development prize of the decade-a new Honda plant. Back in June 2006, Decatur County’s unemployment rate was a healthy 4.2 percent, lower than the state’s as a whole. With Honda’s promise of 2,000 jobs by 2010, a boom seemed just […]
Jobs created by the new manufacturing plant have been offset by losses elsewhere in the community, and related development
remains scarce. But local officials remain optimistic about Honda’s long-term impact.
