The city of Indianapolis on Wednesday announced the launch of a website to provide information and collect research for a bridge project that uses land that was once occupied by the city’s earliest cemetery.
The City-County Council on Monday evening approved a major piece of the Hogsett administration’s plan to lure a Major League Soccer team to Indianapolis, advancing a proposal for a new professional sports development area intended to fund a soccer-first stadium.
The company has spent millions on the mostly automated production line. That shift has allowed the company’s 30 employees to upskill to work with the technology, but he said some manual labor remains.
AES Indiana, which owns a half-acre parking lot at 355 E. Pearl St., just east of Alabama Street, confirmed to IBJ that the company is “currently discussing its sale with a third party.”
Indianapolis-based developers Gershman Partners and Citimark are seeking to develop a five-building warehouse complex on the property, but a permit denial affecting just a quarter-acre of the project could sideline the development.
After a three-hour meeting in a room packed with supporters of the Indy Eleven, a City-County Council committee on Tuesday narrowly advanced a proposal for a taxing district on the east side of downtown to support a potential Major League Soccer stadium.
The City-County Council’s Rules and Public Policy Committee on Tuesday will hear the Hogsett’s administration’s case for creating the professional sports development area, with scrutiny by the full council to follow on June 3.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration could pursue a plan to turn the proposed Indy Eleven stadium property into a memorial park to honor its history as an early cemetery grounds rather than let it be developed, the mayor’s spokeswoman confirmed Friday.
This summer, the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County will break ground on a multiyear, $170 million facilities improvement plan—the largest investment in the agency’s structures in decades—beginning with a new public health lab.
Under the new law, owners of apartments and single-family homes are exempted from the tax unless they decide to opt in to paying the tax, leaving potential for a large decrease in available funds.
Keystone Group revealed late Wednesday that archaeologists have discovered 87 remains in the excavation of a six-acre portion of the former manufacturing site.
Pyrz, formerly the chief development officer for IndyGo, succeeds Inez Evans, who stepped down from the role in December.
Keystone Group said it planned to use the historic Mount Jackson Cemetery about three miles away for “reinterment and memorialization” of the remains before moving forward with “transformational riverfront development.”
The settlement involves 168 property owners along more than 20 miles of the trail from just south of East 16th Street in Indianapolis to just west of the White River in Noblesville.
The City-County Council’s Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee advanced a tax-abatement proposal Monday that would save Calumet about $129,440 over a four-year term. In return, Calumet has committed to retaining 190 jobs.
Rep. Sharon Negele, R-Attica, said voters didn’t think she’d done enough to ensure local officials could stop projects related to water and solar that they didn’t like.
Mayor Joe Hogsett’s plan to create an additional professional sports development area in downtown Indianapolis was introduced to the City-County Council on Monday with two additional council sponsors—and questions over the committee assignment for the proposal.
The Hogsett administration has found a sponsor on the City-County Council for the mayor’s plan to create a new taxing district that could be used to fund a new downtown soccer stadium. Without a council sponsor, the measure could not move forward.
Experts say the hesitancy of Black business owners to borrow stems from historical neglect of those customers by traditional banks—an opinion backed by extensive historical research.
Two closed-door meetings by the Democratic caucus of the Indianapolis City-County Council may have violated Indiana’s public access law or at least stretched its limits, leading authorities say.
