MAY 5-11, 2014
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City’s bid team revving up for Super Bowl pitch
Indianapolis officials plan to use a downtown light show and $30 million in pre-raised corporate cash to wow the NFL’s team owners into granting the Circle City the title of Super Bowl host for the second time in six years.
Read MoreKeystone-style overhaul discussed for key Hamilton County corridor
A study recommends replacing as many as 10 signalized intersections along State Road 37 with roundabout interchanges, dropping the highway under the cross streets.
Read MoreHospitals might limit executives’ pay hikes after run of big increases
Before local hospitals slashed staff and expenses last year, they had been boosting the pay packages of their top executives faster than hospitals around the country. Seven of every 10 senior executives at the major hospital systems in Indianapolis saw their total compensation rise more than 10 percent from 2010 to 2012.
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IU plots $200M life sciences hub in former Wishard Hospital
The envisioned 26-acre, $200-million-or-more complex would bridge IU’s School of Medicine with the city’s life sciences firms, including those at the nascent 16 Tech, a business park.
Read MoreCommand center being built at WRTV will run 19 stations
Media giant E.W. Scripps is building a multimillion-dollar master control facility at its WRTV-TV Channel 6 that will control all 19 of Scripps’ U.S. television stations. The control hub will bring about 10 additional jobs to WRTV’s 1330 N. Meridian St. campus.
Read MorePrecedent Office Park owner cashes out at steep loss
The owners of the 19-building Precedent Office Park are poised to unload the massive property, but at a price much cheaper than what they gave nine years ago during the height of the real estate boom.
Read MoreMarsh set to dominate downtown grocery market
When the new downtown Marsh grocery debuts later this month, it will give the local supermarket chain a lock on the urban core—at least until the arrival of another competitor expected with redevelopment of the Market Square Arena site.
Read MoreSt. Vincent and Community to dissolve partnership
The Accountable Care Consortium was envisioned as a vehicle through which the hospitals would eventually funnel all of their roughly $2.5 billion in annual contracts with health insurers and employers.
Read MoreWXIN-TV ups ante in local news arms race
Fox59 now faces the challenge of filling airtime for two new newscasts, and the question of whether viewers even notice or care about repetition across shows.
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Flaherty becoming mixed-use master
Developer’s Flaherty & Collins is gaining a reputation developing trendy projects, the latest of which is a 28-story retail and residential tower on the site of the former Market Square Arena.
Read MoreTwo downtown office towers poised to get new asset manager
Sam Zell’s Equity Group Investments would step in at Chase Tower and PNC Center, replacing a firm accused of conflicts of interest and underperformance.
Read MoreFirst-quarter commercial real estate statistics for Indianapolis
Check out the latest office and industrial statistics.
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EDITORIAL: Justice center move can benefit downtown
Most of the conversation surrounding the city’s proposed criminal justice center has focused on what the heart of downtown stands to lose when the courts and jails move out Rarely discussed is what downtown can gain from the new center, which is now officially slated for about a third of the 110-acre GM Stamping Plant site just west of White River.
Read MoreMORRIS: Your vote counts this primary season
Not sure about races and who’s running? Here’s where you can find what you need to know.
Read MoreKENNEDY: The tax-cutters are too clever by half
Tax cuts have consequences as predictable as the sunrise. The politicians who cut taxes boast about their concern for taxpayers and their superior efficiency; they assure us that our low taxes will lure new business, then they run for higher office or otherwise head for greener pastures where the accuracy of those claims is unlikely to be tested. The politicians who have been left to operate with less money engage in equally predictable behaviors.
Read MoreLEE: A path toward better health care
Lost in all the rhetoric about the Affordable Care Act—website glitches, recriminations and cries for “repeal and replace”—it’s easy to forget the near-universal agreement that today’s health care environment is fragmented and inefficient.
Read MoreHicks: State, local government unbalanced in Indiana
Having lived and worked in three states over the past decade, I have watched how state policy influences local government.
Read MoreSkarbeck: Companies using mergers to sidestep taxes in U.S.
Merger activity has exploded this year, and a key factor behind many of the deals is the ability to use cash stockpiles held overseas.
Read MoreRACE: Storefronts, sidewalks can make or break a retail node
A street’s appeal and economic potential depends on good design principles.
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Design group honoring Ratio Architects founder
Local architect Bill Browne, president and founder of Ratio Architects, will be honored May 22 by the Interior Design Coalition of Indiana as its 2014 Legend IN Design recipient.
Read MoreLilly Endowment sells Lilly stock for first time since ’08
Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment sold 150,000 shares of Eli Lilly and Co. stock on Monday, resuming a short-lived asset diversification plan suspended when stock prices swooned in 2008.
Read MoreTradesmen team with volunteers to fix Crooked Creek homes
Teams of tradesmen, followed by an army of unskilled volunteers, descended on the Crooked Creek neighborhood in April to fix up 20 homes.
Read MoreExec from struggling RadioShack joins HHGregg
In joining the Indianapolis-based firm as COO, Troy Risch trades one big retailer struggling to find its footing for another.
Read MoreBike advocates choose Indy for protected lanes
Mayor Greg Ballard is scheduled to join U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on Tuesday for a press conference on the Green Lane Project.
Read MoreNFP of NOTE: Little Red Door Cancer Agency
Little Red Door Cancer Agency strives to make the most of life and the least of cancer, by reducing the physical, emotional and financial burdens of cancer for the medically underserved residents of central Indiana.
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