The Indianapolis Airport Authority’s aggressive effort to stop an Ohio firm from building a parking facility beyond airport boundaries has neighbors worrying the municipality will unleash its lawyers on virtually any nearby business deemed a threat to airport revenue.
$2.9 million grant will be used to bulk up logistics training and education center in Plainfield.
The three-year service will take riders to Amazon, BrightPoint, Ryder and other big west-side employers.
The once high-flying Fundex is seeking to reorganize under the protection of bankruptcy as the lawsuits against the Plainfield-based company continue to pile up. Fundex lists assets of nearly $1.5 million and liabilities of $8.9 million.
The Indy Warehouse Automation Expo will showcase new generation of scanners, cameras and radio frequency ID technology.
Given the soft cell phone market and Brightpoint’s recent struggles, a sale to California-based Ingram Micro for about $840 million makes sense, analysts say. The two companies announced the acquisition early Monday morning.
Rolls-Royce Corp. said Tuesday that its landed a $315 million contract from Pratt & Whitney for its LiftSystem, which enables short takeoffs and vertical landings by the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35B aircraft.
Four package liquor permits in the county west of Indianapolis fetched a total of nearly $1 million, roughly a quarter of the $3.8 million the state netted during an auction of 279 new alcohol permits in Indiana.
With an $80,000 nut and some luck with bank loans, D.J. McCallister has beaten staffing woes and an unforeseen sales slump to make newcomer Black Swan Brewpub a break-even enterprise.
Amazon.com plans to open a second warehouse in Plainfield this year, the company announced Wednesday. The online retailer’s fourth location in central Indiana is expected to create hundreds of jobs.
Ozburn-Hessey Logistics plans to expand its distribution center in the Hendricks County town and create up to 415 new jobs by 2015. Based in Tennessee, OHL is one of the largest third-party logistics providers in the world.
Brightpoint Inc. will add 100 jobs in Plainfield as it moves its Touchstone Wireless operations from Bristol, Tenn., the company announced late Tuesday afternoon.
Toronto-based Ditan Distribution LLC said it will close the distribution center in three phases beginning June 18 and lasting until Aug. 5.
Last in a month-long series of numeric restaurant reviews. This week: Three Pints Brewpub.
Fundex Games Ltd. has given up its rights to the game Chronology to settle a suit brought last March by local inventor Jane Ruemmele.
Sara Lee Corp. has signed a lease for about 281,000 square feet of space at Plainfield Business Center at Airwest. The Illinois-based maker of food products will establish a new distribution center in the space in February.
Minority-owned logistics firm s2f Worldwide, started a year ago with high-profile investors and tax incentives in tow, has been acquired by Brightpoint Inc. The deal closed about three weeks ago, said former s2f CEO Randall Lewis.
About 2.5 million square feet of industrial space is expected to hit the market between now and the end of the year, most
of it in the Plainfield area.
With the first baby boomers set to turn 65 in six months, investments in senior housing are heating up. A group of Indianapolis-area
professionals—including Mark Waterfill (left) and Tony Schantz—have banded together to launch three senior housing
projects around the state, spending $49 million and looking
to do more.
TKO Graphix in Plainfield calls back 15 workers and adds another 15 to help install graphics on 6,000 vehicles operated by
the national lawn care company.
