The Carmel Redevelopment Commission has agreed to pay up to nearly $25,000 for a firm to create initial designs for a potential hotel and separate conference center at City Center.
While businesses consider many factors before choosing where to locate, economic development experts say a community’s openness to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals increasingly is one of them.
The provider of inventory financing to car dealers plans to invest more than $50 million to lease and renovate its headquarters in Carmel to support its expanding customer service and technology divisions.
In a packed chambers, Carmel City Council members listened to more than two hours of public comment, with most people opposing legislation that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Danny Boy Beer Works opened a 2,000-square-foot taproom called Danny Tap in conjunction with War Water Brewery in St. Clair, Michigan at the beginning of July, and plans to open a new production facility within a year.
Justin Moffett, principal of Carmel-based Old Town Development LLC, told the Carmel Plan Commission there has been strong interest in office space including a $25 million building anchored by Merchants Bank of Indiana.
The 34,000-square-foot temple at 116th Street and Spring Mill Road in Carmel will be one of fewer than 20 in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
Eleven Fifty, the Carmel-based coding academy and consulting firm, has committed to hiring 92 people in exchange for a state incentive package worth more than $1.3 million, Indiana economic development officials announced Tuesday.
The two blocks on the western edge of Carmel’s Arts & Design District are residential, at least for now, but that’s expected to change as the population grows by 1,500 every year and the city continues its quest to create a walkable community.
