IBJ SPECIAL REPORT: Center Township lowered its bank balance in 2012, to $6.7 million, but the biggest checks Trustee Eugene Akers wrote weren’t for emergency needs like food or shelter, the township’s main mission.
Butler University has received a $10 million grant from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation to help the school expand its sciences efforts, Butler announced Wednesday morning.
Legislation that was killed last year after passing the Indiana House has been revived this session in hopes of spurring more historic renovation across the state.
The developer of Nora Plaza is planning a $2 million redevelopment of a building that formerly housed Café Nora in the popular north-side shopping center, and anchor Whole Foods is expanding into 5,700 square feet of space north of its existing store.
While supporters of big-time college athletics say basketball championships increase sports revenue, stimulate fundraising and encourage student applications, data compiled by Bloomberg News show that not all of that is true, and there’s no guarantee of a lasting effect.
The abandoned Oxmoor Apartments on Indianapolis’ near-north side is about to be revived, thanks to a $1.4 million renovation set to be completed in July.
The move to the newly formed Big East athletic conference will cost Butler a lot more than its $2 million exit fee from the Atlantic 10.
Twenty-five years ago, Butler University President Geoffrey Bannister had an idea to elevate the college by making the lowly men’s Bulldog basketball team a national power, then use it as a marketing tool to engage alumni, increase annual giving to the school, and recruit more and better students and instructors.
Locally based Reverie Estates has purchased the 53-unit Butler Apartments along Washington Street in Irvington and plans an extensive renovation.
Indiana's House Republicans are looking to spend $750,000 on renovations to desks, leather chairs and a ceiling in their Statehouse chamber, after spending $74,000 to replace worn carpeting in the Statehouse last summer.
Need some incentives to travel in-state for your next getaway? Looking for something new? Here’s a rundown of some of what’s been added — or improved — on Indiana’s destinations menu.
Having rejuvenated Glendale Town Center and Rivers Edge, Kite is turning its attention to Rangeline Crossing in Carmel.
An educational group is planning to spend about $4 million to renovate an Indianapolis warehouse to open its first charter school in what it hopes will become a statewide network.
The departure of trucking and auto fleet insurer Baldwin & Lyons Inc. from downtown's Landmark Center to The Congressional in Carmel is a blow for the central business district and a bonanza for Lauth Property Group.
A bottling house, which is all that’s left of a brewing campus closed by Prohibition, will be home to two partners’ startup this spring.
-Kort Builders has completed a 3,120-square-foot retail space for Scrubs & Beyond at 6810 S. Emerson Drive.
-Kort Builders has completed the exterior and interior renovation of an 8,860-square-foot Cort Furniture at 4904 Century Plaza Road.
An Indianapolis drywall contractor faces criminal charges that he underpaid his employees working on a government housing project, and then falsified documents to cover it up, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s request for a special taxing district to help update the storied venue is such a slam dunk that it barely merits an editorial.
-TMG Construction Management Inc. has been hired by Upland Brewing Co. to build a 2,400-square-foot restaurant and tasting room at 820 E. 116th St., Carmel.
-Mezzetta Inc. has been awarded the general conditions contract by the Indiana State Fair Commission for renovation of the Coliseum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E. 38th St. The work is to be completed by October of this year.
Nearby businesses hope upgrades to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from a proposed state taxing district would pave the way for additional offerings at the venue, including night racing.
