The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, which acts on behalf of utility customers, did not join the settlement. Neither did ratepayer advocacy group Citizen’s Action Coalition.
The city plans to lease a warehouse just east of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with capacity for up to 160 individuals.
Recent media reports raise questions about deals brokered by Thomas Cook, Mayor Hogsett’s former chief of staff, and the city’s former top economic development official, with whom Cook was allegedly in a secret romantic relationship.
The city’s interest in the property surged after it was told that Major League Soccer might want to locate a club downtown, with city officials pitching it as a location for a soccer-first stadium.
Over the past several months, Indianapolis leaders have been staking colorful signs into the yards of city-owned vacant properties in what amounts to a promise to neighbors that they plan to put the properties back on the tax rolls.
A few City-County Council members say Indianapolis should consider keeping AES out of private equity’s hands by acquiring the utility.
Nearly five months have passed since a report about the Hogsett administration’s handling of sexual harassment allegations was released. But the City-County Council is preparing to take more steps involving the investigation.
Michael O’Connor, a principal of the Bose Public Affairs Group and a former chair of the Indianapolis Public Schools board, will lead the consulting work as part of the city’s contract with Bose.
The Mayor’s Action Center at the City-County Building has a dozen employees who operate as the front line for complaints and questions for the Hogsett administration. Yet, those employees are among the lowest paid in the city-county enterprise.
Redeveloping the long-vacant Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. manufacturing site is a major component of Noblesville’s long-term plan that involves creating master plans for areas just outside of downtown.
A city commission is backing the Hogsett administration’s effort to salvage the long-planned redevelopment of the Gold Building downtown, which for months has been hampered by financial challenges that nearly derailed it.
As a critical vote by the City-County Council approaches on whether to rezone 467 acres for Google’s proposed billion-dollar data center, the local school district has changed its stance on the project.
IBJ reported earlier this week that the developers faced foreclosure on the Gold Building and its two adjacent properties without the loan.
The budget proposal presented by Mayor Scott Fadness to the Fishers City Council for next year also contains funding for seven road projects, including multiple roundabouts.
With the City-County Council approaching a Sept. 22 public hearing over the 467-acre project, IBJ looked into many of the questions being asked about the controversial development.
An almost 50-year-old requirement that county employees live in Indianapolis is creating staffing problems for some city agencies, but councilors on the City-County Council’s Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee voted 6-5 against changing the rule.
Almost half of the council has spoken out against the controversial project, which was approved by the Metropolitan Development Commission last week.
The tech giant’s plan to develop the massive data center in Franklin Township was bolstered by a city commission’s vote Wednesday to grant preliminary approval to the company’s request to rezone nearly 470 acres for the project.
Indianapolis might soon begin charging more money for construction permits and inspections while also hiking penalties for code and ordinance violations under a proposal that updates fees, including some that haven’t been changed since 1988.
A developer under criticism for previous work on an affordable housing project on the near-northwest side of Indianapolis has received initial city approval for financing help on the development’s next phase, but with several new requirements.
