Should Indy try for another Super Bowl?
For now, the groups responsible for bringing the Super Bowl to Indianapolis in 2012 have their sights set on two other NFL attention-grabbers: the scouting combine and the draft.
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UPDATE: Tech startup Qualifi lands $2.5M in seed funding
Indianapolis-based Qualifi, which launched in 2019, offers technology that helps customers quickly screen job applicants using automated phone calls.
Ex-ITT Tech students among thousands to receive $415M in loan cancellations
This is the fourth finding against Carmel-based ITT Tech that has led to the approval of debt relief claims by the department. All told, the evidence has resulted in about $660 million in discharges for roughly 23,000 students.
Developer planning $98M housing, retail project at 96th and Allisonville
The project from Carmel-based developer CRG Residential would contain 380 apartment units, 66 townhomes for sale and 35,000 square feet of retail space. The firm also would donate 25 acres of land to beef up a recently announced city park along the White River.
Def Leppard, Motley Crue to share bill at Lucas Oil Stadium
The hard rock bands, accompanied by Poison and Joan Jett, will play the ninth public concert at Lucas Oil Stadium since the venue opened in 2008.
Westfield’s Rail restaurant plans a revival and return to its roots
No longer in a renovated barn, the Rail reboot will be reminiscent of original business model that combined sandwiches with a market.
Cathedral grad hopes to change diaper game with self-cleaning table
Also a DePauw alum, Indiana native Brittany Hizer has co-founded a startup that makes a product that will make perfect sense to any new parent.
KAR Global bounces back with profitable year
Carmel-based KAR Auction Services Inc. on Wednesday reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings and full-year results that were much better than the previous year’s.
Indiana lawmakers step back ‘curricula transparency’ bill
Indiana state senators on Wednesday also moved forward with a separate bill that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in K-12 school sports that match their gender identity.
Indiana Senate panel waters down vaccine bill, prompting businesses to support it
Lawmakers in the Senate struck language from the House GOP’s employer vaccine mandates bill that would have forced employers to accept any religious exemptions without further question.
Proposed change to ‘divisive concepts’ bill would ban fewer ideas
A proposed amendment to Indiana’s so-called “divisive concepts” legislation would drop some of the most controversial parts of the bill, but stop short of completely removing a list of concepts that would be banned from the classroom.
Former Trustee building on Mass Ave set for revamp with restaurant space on first floor
According to plans approved by the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission this month, Landmark Properties plans to make several changes to the five-story building to attract office and retail tenants.
Rocky Ripple residents push back on demolitions in cost-cutting anti-flood plan
Three years after Rocky Ripple approved a no-demolition plan for a new floodwall, the Indianapolis Department of Public Works has unveiled a tweaked plan that would involve destruction of as many as 14 houses and the Rocky Ripple Town Hall.
Developers plan $300M, 125-acre Plainfield project with housing, commercial space
Percolating under the radar for two years, the first phase of Hobbs Station is expected to feature 300 apartments, 99 single-family homes and 500,000 square feet of logistics space.
Tamika Catchings steps down as Fever’s GM, VP of basketball operations
Catchings has not been able to duplicate the success she had as a player in her role as an executive with the Indiana Fever. The team has named former coach Lin Dunn to replace Catchings on an interim basis.
IBJ Podcast: Stephen Goldsmith talks Circle Centre revamp, equity in workforce development
Host Mason King talks with Goldsmith about how the city and the mall owners should think about what’s next. And they discuss Goldsmith’s new book on one of the business world’s biggest problems, “Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development.”
FDA gives early-use authorization to Lilly’s new COVID-19 antibody
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker said the antibody is effective against the omicron variant and it has already manufactured several hundred thousand doses. The deal calls for the federal government to pay Lilly more than $720 million.
Distillery will be fairgrounds’ first year-round retail tenant in two decades
HI & Mighty will open at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in June 2023, making and selling alcoholic spirits in Southwest Pavilion, a building that’s been used for storage in recent years.
Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug hits roadblock
The FDA has agreed to speed up review of donanemab, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is moving to limit reimbursement for drugs in this class to only patients in clinical trials.
Circle Centre owners commit to ‘transformative’ mall revamp
What’s next for the two city blocks that are now Circle Centre mall could start coming into focus over the next year.