The city unveiled a dramatic plan to revitalize the old Market Square Arena area just two days before the Metropolitan Development Commission approved the deal June 3. That the public was given insufficient notice of the project is among a number of legitimate complaints about the proposed $65 million effort to redevelop the former Bank […]
One of the city’s busiest post office branches will close in the coming months to clear the way for a possible expansion of the Target…
The Indianapolis Airport Authority board is set to vote tomorrow on a plan to lease 209.5 acres now used as a bat conservancy to Hendricks County Parks and Recreation as a public nature park. The proposed Sodalis Nature Park is west of County Road 975 East, between County Road 750 South and County Road 800 […]
Last week, in a contest to win a family four-pack of tickets to see “Walking with Dinosaurs-The Arena Spectacular,” coming to Conseco Fieldhouse July 8-12, I asked you to write in your favorite dinosaur or dinosaur moment. Among many a Dino and Tyrannosaurus Rex, here are some of your other favorite dinosaurs: “The one Fred […]
A worker has been killed after falling from a boom lift at the construction site for the Indiana Convention Center expansion in downtown Indianapolis. Police say 55-year-old Stanley Roberts of Indianapolis fell about 50 feet when the device toppled for an unknown reason this afternoon. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say Roberts […]
The owners of one of Indiana’s most successful riverboat casinos are preparing to replace it with a new $335 million boat that’s the size of two football fields. The new Hollywood casino in Lawrenceburg won’t just replace the 13-year-old Argosy casino when it opens June 29 – it will also raise the stakes in a […]
A $65 million public-private plan for the redevelopment of a vacant downtown office building is raising eyebrows for its unusual
approach and potential risk to taxpayers. The plan calls for a private developer to acquire the former Bank One operations
center, surface parking lots and an adjacent
parking garage from a private owner for $18.5 million, then sell the 1,680-space garage to the city for $18.5 million.
New neighborhood plopped in the middle of former cornfields are a disaster.
Special session will be longer than all had hoped before because of multiple unresolved issues
The city of Anderson soon will tap a new well to help accommodate demand from Nestle USA, which opened a Madison County plant
in May 2008 producing bottled, flavored Nesquik and liquid Coffee-mate, a water-based creamer. The
company already has launched an expansion slated for completion in 2011.
State Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s attempt to stand up for the rule of law in the Chrysler bankruptcy appears to have been
futile, but we applaud the treasurer for trying. Mourdock went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the rights
of secured creditors in bankruptcy cases.
State Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s attempt to stand up for the rule of law in the Chrysler bankruptcy appears to have been futile, but we applaud the treasurer for trying. Mourdock went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the rights of secured creditors in bankruptcy cases. Unfortunately, many national news accounts of […]
ANDERSON-Tom Brewer has a recipe for reviving this city abandoned by the U.S. auto industry. Study satellite photography, groundwater flow and historic well records. Build wells to increase pumping capacity by millions of gallons daily. Then position that bounty in front of food processors-one of the thirstiest industries out there. “Food processors are notorious for […]
A $65 million public-private plan for the redevelopment of a vacant downtown office building is raising eyebrows for its unusual approach and potential risk to taxpayers. The plan calls for a private developer to acquire the former Bank One operations center, surface parking lots and an adjacent parking garage from a private owner for $18.5 […]
Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s failed quest to stop Chrysler’s bankruptcy proceedings will cost state taxpayers $2 million in legal fees, but he has no regrets about what some saw as a Quixotic effort. That sum is on top of the $5.6 million a road construction fund and pension funds for retired teachers and state troopers […]
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 […]
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock said the Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal by a trio of Indiana pension and construction funds to block the sale of Chrysler to Fiat shortchanged secured investors. “I am disappointed to have learned that the U.S. Supreme Court has lifted the stay in the Chrysler bankruptcy case, thereby allowing […]
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. […]
Construction work on a new Kroger-anchored development along the Monon Trail at 86th Street is drawing the ire of Nora neighborhood leaders. They’re frustrated by the removal of trees and bushes along the trail by the project’s developer, locally based…
Italy’s Fiat is the new owner of the bulk of Chrysler’s assets, closing a deal today that saves the troubled U.S. automaker from liquidation and places a new company in the hands of Fiat’s CEO.The deal clears the way for a new, leaner Chrysler Group LLC to emerge from bankruptcy protection minus billions in debt, […]
