In November, a Department of Public Works staffer revealed to the Board of Public Works in a public meeting that the Hogsett administration is now planning for a rollout three years later than the original target.
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The state and the city of Noblesville are setting the stage to overhaul four intersections along a 2-mile stretch: at Greenfield Avenue, Town and Country Boulevard, Pleasant Street and State Road 32/38.
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The state has spent more than $690 million so far establishing the LEAP Research and Innovation District. Outgoing economic leaders say the project is a huge success, but some political leaders are cautious.
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Incoming President Donald Trump’s pledge to impose tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico has caught the attention of Indiana companies, which stand to experience a significant impact if new or expanded tariffs are imposed.
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IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said the agency is seeing higher numbers of theft victims overall since before the pandemic, in part because scammers are increasingly moving to online schemes.
Heading into a packed legislative session at the Indiana Statehouse, the Indy Chamber plans to focus its lobbying efforts on quality-of-place and human resources issues.
The promised investment feeds into an existing boom for constructing data centers used in the development of artificial intelligence and expansion of cryptocurrency.
Health care-centric lobbying firm KWK Management Group merged with the wide-ranging 1816 Public Affairs Group at the start of the year, the companies announced Tuesday.
Holcomb’s administration has focused its economic strategy on courting new companies and investing in those already here.
The plan is meant to streamline discussions among the city, existing businesses and companies considering Indianapolis for expansion or relocation.
The city is preparing to break ground in the next few months, but some housing-first advocates say the shelter doesn’t further the housing-first goal because it won’t include permanent-housing options.
Allowing each councilor to choose an improvement project is part of an initiative by Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration to invest in roads, parks and dangerous intersections throughout Marion County.
Comments about the CHIPS and Science Act by President-elect Donald Trump and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson before the election have raised questions about whether the president and Congress are fully committed to the law that Indiana is deeply invested in.
The new fee is intended to encourage industry to adopt best practices that reduce emissions of methane—the primary component of natural gas—and thereby avoid paying.
All 92 counties in Indiana have their own fee structures and procedures for licensing, and some municipalities charge permitting fees, as well.
Across Indianapolis city-county government, 166 employees earn less than $18 an hour, the benchmark that some groups consider a living wage, including the city’s economic development arm.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the administration’s approach, saying in August that “heavy-handed regulations that micromanage business practices” will lead to higher costs for consumers.
Indianapolis planners are trying to streamline the process for developers to build multi-unit affordable-housing options on vacant city-owned lots.
Parks Director Michael Klitzing told IBJ the department over the next 10 years will need $6.5 million per year in capital funding to maintain its current assets and $11.5 million per year in capital funds to develop new parkland.
Not-for-profit Hoosiers for Opportunity, Prosperity & Enterprise seeks to become a major player in Indiana’s political ecosystem by developing a framework of conservative policy that lawmakers can deploy at the Statehouse.
The cities are set to ask state lawmakers to change the rules that govern how and when cities can benefit from taxes generated by sports-related projects.
The city of Indianapolis says it has no plans to change the way it deals with homeless residents, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to move, ticket or arrest people sleeping on the streets.
In total, the $113 million, three-phase Reimagine Pleasant Street project involves extending, realigning and expanding Pleasant Street into a 2-1/2-mile corridor from State Road 32 to just west of State Road 37.
Beginning next year, the Safe Streets and Roads for All funds will be used to study and redesign six road segments in Indianapolis.
