A panel of City-County Council members on Monday advanced a plan to provide Corteva Agriscience with incentives to maintain operations in Indianapolis, but not before several councilors expressed objections.
Danielle Coulter is a senior government affairs associate at Indiana governmental affairs firm Dant Advocacy Inc. She is also a precinct committee member in Franklin Township.
The City-County Council’s public works committee voted unanimously Thursday night to move a proposal forward that would establish a so-called “flood control improvement district” in the Warfleigh neighborhood, plus parts of Broad Ripple and near Butler University.
More than 50 city services—from requesting extra police patrols to filing property tax appeals to requesting a streetlight in your neighborhood—are now offered digitally at my.indy.gov.
For at least a year, county officials have debated how best to pay for the county’s 911 communications operation going forward.
The funds are expected to help the neighborhood and its partners invest in upgrades to the area’s local park and improve the infrastructure of South Meridian Street, as well as build several hundred new units of affordable housing.
Peterson Architecture founder Darren Peterson was chosen to fulfill what remains of Mary Sue Rowland’s third term on the Noblesville City Council.
The city is in the process of setting up “redevelopment areas” surrounding North Post Road between 38th and 42nd Streets, the West 38th Street area known as International Marketplace, and a corridor of Brookville Road that contains the former Navistar and Ford Visteon plants.
The Capital Improvement Board has selected a Kite Realty Group plan from among three proposals in its effort to expand the city’s convention capacity. The CIB is expected to vote Friday to move the project forward.
Scott Kreider, who was elected to the council in 2015, is one of 11 Republicans on the 25-seat council.
In Marion County, a total of 1,309 voters cast a ballot during the first three days of early voting last week. That’s nearly triple the amount of early voting during the same time period in 2014 for the last midterm election.
The administration plans to spend $126 million on roads and bridges in 2019, about $30 million more than is slated to be spent this year.
A preliminary audit of the sheriff’s office budget and operations, being conducted for the city by consulting firm KPMG, follows a dispute last year over the agency’s budget.
Where scrap once heaped along Interstate 65, town officials see a community center, sports facilities, an amphitheater and maybe even a convention center.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said Wednesday that he is working with the City-County Council on the proposal and that the language is being vetted by city lawyers. The measure is opposed by advocates for the homeless.
The Indianapolis City-County Council on Monday night unanimously passed a proposal to give $16.7 million in financing to help Keystone Realty Group overhaul two problem downtown office buildings.
The Battista family’s plan to redevelop a Prohibition-era church building on the east side into an independent cinema and eatery has changed dramatically. And so has the project’s price tag.
Keystone Realty Group’s plan to spend $141 million on two high-profile downtown redevelopment projects passed a hurdle Monday night as an Indianapolis City-County council committee unanimously approved $16.7 million in financing to help fund the project.
Proponents say the plan would curb panhandling, but critics say it would unfairly target the city’s homeless population.
Keystone Realty Group is in line to receive financing help from the city for an ambitious plan that would overhaul two nearly vacant office properties near Monument Circle and bring a prestigious Intercontinental Hotel to Indianapolis.
