2024 Newsmaker: Pacers Sports & Entertainment’s Mel Raines
Raines took the reins four months after the Indiana Pacers and the city hosted the 2024 NBA All-Star Game, an event Raines had helmed since 2017.
Year in Review
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2024 Newsmaker of the Year: Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark
Every team in the WNBA had higher attendance figures for games in which they played the Fever than they did for non-Fever games.
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2022 Year in Review: A year of ups, downs and uncertainty
The stock market dropped in 2022. So did the unemployment rate. Except in Indiana, where in both cases, the numbers crept up.
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2022 Newsmakers of the Year: Daniels, Whitten broker plan to split IUPUI
The split is a move that state and local officials and many business leaders had quietly advocated for years because it gives each school the opportunity to develop its own strengths in the city.
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2024 Newsmakers: Gov.-elect Mike Braun and Lt. Gov.-elect Micah Beckwith
The cornerstone of Braun’s campaign was his promise to use his business experience to lead Indiana. And on election night, he doubled down on campaign promises to cut government spending and pass a balanced budget.
2024 Newsmaker: Lilly CEO David Ricks
Ricks—IBJ’s newsmaker of the year in 2023—returns to the newsmaker list in 2024 after a year that included a stock price that skyrocketed to an all-time high of $972 and announcements about big new investments in Lebanon and Ireland.
2024 Newsmaker: OneAmerica’s Scott Davison
USA Swimming’s decision to host its 2024 Olympic Trials in Indianapolis can be traced back to Scott Davison, CEO of Indianapolis-based OneAmerica Financial Partners Inc.
2024 Newsmakers: Lauren Roberts, Caroline Ellert and an anonymous accuser
Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration and the Indianapolis City-County Council launched investigations and new reporting and training programs this year after three women accused a mayor’s adviser of sexual harassment.
2024 Newsmaker: Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett
In April, Hogsett made a surprise announcement that the city would pursue a Major League Soccer team and said he was talking with representatives of a yet-to-be-named ownership group about the possibility.
2024 Newsmaker: Mali and Alan Bacon
The husband-and-wife team founded GangGang, a cultural development and social justice organization that supports Black artists and the creative economy, in 2020. GangGang has since been part of some of the city’s biggest cultural events.
2024 Newsmaker: U.S. Sen. Todd Young
Two years after U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., co-authored the CHIPS and Science Act, Indiana is reaping big rewards.
2024 Year in Review: Wins by Braun, Rokita, Banks cap off big GOP year
Braun and running mate Micah Beckwith won handily—54% to 41%—over Democrat Jennifer McCormick, who had previously been elected state superintendent of public instruction as a Republican.
2024 Year in Review: I-69 opens fully from Indianapolis to Evansville
The final portion of the 150-mile project was completed with the opening of a newly built interchange linking I-69 and I-465.
2024 Year in Review: Indy implements downtown tax
The economic enhancement district is projected to raise $4.65 million a year in taxes to pay for downtown-focused improvements and programs and fund the operating costs of a low-barrier homeless shelter planned on the southeast side of downtown.
2024 Year in Review: Entertainment festivals see mixed results
Indianapolis added one homegrown music festival in 2024, while three others were put on hold because of financial challenges in the concert industry.
2024 Year in Review: Newfields finds new CEO in Field Museum executive
Le Monte Booker, chief financial officer of Chicago’s Field Museum, was announced in August as successor to Colette Pierce Burnette in the role of Newfields CEO and president.
2024 Year in Review: High-tech plants drive IEDC’s record-breaking year
Two major announcements were Eli Lilly and Co.’s additional $9.8 billion investment into its LEAP Research and Innovation District campus and SK Hynix’s $3.87 billion semiconductor packaging facility at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette.
2024 Year in Review: Central Indiana basks in eclipse totality
Cities across central and southern Indiana, including the entire metro Indianapolis area, were in the path of totality for the April 8 solar eclipse, creating a once-in-a-lifetime tourism opportunity for cities along the route.
2024 Year in Review: City sees key development projects start or advance
More than $8.5 billion in development is underway across downtown, with more coming as projects in their earliest stages wind their way through the planning process.
2024 Year in Review: Lilly’s total investment at LEAP climbs to $13.5B
Lilly said the expansion is expected to add 400 full-time jobs for highly skilled workers, including engineers, scientists, operations personnel and lab technicians.
2024 Year in Review: Fishers’ $170M event center opens with country show
Country music band Turnpike Troubadours, along with bluegrass-influenced band Trampled by Turtles and singer Tyler Halverson, opened the arena Nov. 22 at the Yard at Fishers District, east of Interstate 69, between East 106th and East 116th streets and southeast of Ikea.
2024 Year in Review: IU Health rolls out Indy Health District as construction continues
Officials say the hospital, with three 16-story patient towers, should receive its top beam—or be “topped out”—next spring.
2024 Year in Review: State doubles down on LEAP District investment
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. inched closer to its vision for its LEAP Research and Innovation District in Lebanon this year with more than $100 million in additional state funding, steps to secure water for the site and additional private investment.