MAY 17-23, 2024
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is in the midst of a $64 million overhaul that will help it catch up to the latest standards in education and visitor experience. Mickey Shuey has the inside story on the museum’s first renovation since it opened in 1976. Also in this week’s issue, John Russell gets the lay of the land in Indiana’s booming nuclear medicine sector. And Dave Lindquist details development of the $170 million Fishers Event Center, which will become the home of the Indy Fuel, Fishers Freight and Indy Ignite.
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Nuclear medicine booms in central Indiana
The roster of radiopharmaceuticals players in the Indianapolis area has surged in the past few years to include some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, attracted by the potential for significant growth.
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For IMS Museum, storytelling wins in renovation plans
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is amid a $64 million renovation to transform the 48-year-old building into a state-of-the-art facility that showcases the Indianapolis 500 and the evolution of IndyCar racing.
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Fishers neighbors create medical record app
Primary Record allows families and other caregivers to organize and share medical information with one another and with doctors from their computer or phone.
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Confectionery industry event returns to Indianapolis with sweetened expectations
This year’s Sweets & Snacks Expo is expected to feature more than 1,000 exhibitors, an all-time high for the event, which will return to Indianapolis five times over the next seven years.
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11 snacks from Sweets & Snacks Expo coming to a market near you
For three days this week, more than 1,000 candy and snack makers from all over the world showed off what’s hot and new in the candy world. And we couldn’t resist checking it out.
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Derek Schultz: Rivals and villains
Indy sports fan hatred is not limited to the Knicks, though, as several other teams and individual players have emerged as villains in the Indianapolis sports landscape over the years, many of whom still inspire revulsion to this day.
Read MoreIndiana 250: Sharon Barner
A former deputy director with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Sharon Barner says she manages “the train tracks that ensure the train can run” at Cummins, where she’s chief administrative officer. Her responsibilities at the global manufacturer of power-generation systems include communications, marketing, government relations, ethics and compliance, corporate responsibility, security, global risk and […]
Read MoreMade in Indiana: Penshot personal safety device by Pavashot Inc.
History: Pavashot President Curtis Graber, Vice President Jon Willson and Design & Development Director Joel Fritz founded Pavashot in 2019. Graber is an inventor whose creations have been used by the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. Willson and Fritz previously worked together at Lake Forest, Illinois-based PepperBall, a company that produces and sells non-lethal […]
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Mayor’s stadium plan faces more criticism, gets additional sponsors in introduction to City-County Council
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.
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Indiana hospital prices remain among highest in nation, report says
In response, Indiana Hospital Association President Brian Tabor said the Rand report “continues to paint a distorted view of health care in our state.”
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Deputy mayor to succeed Baird as leader of affordable housing group
Affordable housing executive Bruce Baird plans to retire as president and CEO of Rdoor Housing Corp. on July 12, the not-for-profit announced Monday.
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State legislators to examine AI, Medicaid spending, more during interim meetings
The Legislative Council, which is made up of eight members from the Indiana Senate and eight members from the Indiana House of Representatives, released topics for interim study on Tuesday.
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Fishers Event Center to bring pro sports and concerts to an already booming area
In addition to second-tier sports leagues, concerts and community events such as graduation ceremonies will help Fishers Event Center toward its goal of hosting more than 100 events during its first year.
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Hotel slated for parking lot across from Gainbridge Fieldhouse
The hotel would be flagged as a Tempo by Hilton, a brand launched in early 2020 with a focus on drawing business travelers with higher-end amenities like bars and cafes.
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Editorial: Midterm legislative retirements cheat voters out of ability to pick
Resigning right after a primary or general election cheats voters of the ability to pick the people who represent them. And it’s more common than you might think.
Read MoreNate Feltman: Support IU president and board of trustees
When the board hired Pamela Whitten in 2021, they knew significant changes were necessary for IU to thrive in a quickly changing higher education landscape.
Read MoreCarey Hamilton: Child care help would free women to be entrepreneurs
Our child care system can serve only about 41% of the 502,000 children who need it.
Read MoreKathy Hubbard: A proven way to solve Indiana’s literacy meltdown
Change can be challenging, especially for educators already bearing heavy responsibilities.
Read MoreIlya Rekhter: Founders, embrace the sink-or-swim moment
My initial thought was that we’d be better off selling funny-sounding presidential cereal.
Read MoreJalene Hahn: Make sure you have a digital estate plan
A digital estate plan is important to maintaining access to treasured photos, stories, and communication for loved ones.
Read MoreCecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Devil is in the details with ceasefire results
Ceasefires are tools groups use to improve their economic and political positions.
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Carmel-based Pyatt Builders acquired by national homebuilder
Taylor Morrison, one of the nation’s largest home builders, also acquired about 1,500 lots around the Indianapolis metropolitan area as part of the deal.
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All IN music festival won’t happen in 2024
Across two years, the All IN festival presented Trey Anastasio, Cage the Elephant and John Fogerty at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
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Wawa planning store along busy 146th Street corridor in Noblesville
Carmel-based JDF Development is planning an $8 million to $10 million project with a Wawa Fuel Center and a 10,000-square-foot office building on 4.45 acres.
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Central Indiana snaps 26-month streak of falling home sales
After more than two years of declining existing-home sales, central Indiana finally saw a positive month in April.
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Mickey Maurer Entrepreneur of the Year Award: ‘A great connector of ideas and people’
During its quarter century of existence, BCforward has become one of the nation’s largest Black-owned businesses, employing some 5,000 workers around the world.
Read MoreFast 25: Inherent Commercial LLC
Looney says Inherent Commercial does a lot of work in the multifamily, senior living and hospitality sectors. Office space is “definitely not what it was,” he says.
Read MoreFast 25: Northern Lights Locating & Inspection Inc.
Northern Lights developed its own ticket-management software in 2004. In 2017, the company launched a cellphone app.
Read MoreFast 25: Edge Industrial Staffing LLC
Edge Industrial Staffing employs a twofold approach: work with the right kind of companies and hire the right kind of people.
Read MoreFast 25: Meyer Najem
Meyer Najem began operations in 1987 mostly focused on the health care industry.
Read MoreFast 25: Custom Concrete Commercial Inc.
The company acquired a competitor about a year ago and is expanding into the Cincinnati area.
Read MoreFast 25: Process Alliance LLC
This is the third consecutive year that the pharmaceutical engineering consultant is among the Fast 25, and a fourth in 2025 wouldn’t be surprising.
Read MoreFast 25: Williams Creek Management Corp.
The foundation of the firm is based on the Clean Water Act.
Read MoreFast 25: TMG Construction Management Inc.
TMG Construction Management specializes in restaurant work, and the continued rise in takeout and delivery post-pandemic has brought a need for restaurant space with more shelves and less dining room.
Read MoreFast 25: GroundBreakers Hydrovac Excavation
The motto this year for GroundBreakers Hydrovac Excavation, President Andrea Sloan says, is “big enough to serve, small enough to care.”
Read MoreFast 25: B & B Site Maintenance Inc.
B & B Site Maintenance President Blaine Leatherman relies on word-of-mouth marketing, and when your business is a full-service concrete company, having concrete suppliers in your corner really helps out.
Read MoreFast 25: Onyx + East
Onyx + East CEO Kelli Lawrence chalks up the ability to successfully pivot to a team that is determined to make things work, no matter what comes at it.
Read MoreFast 25: Remodel Health
Remodel Health helps organizations reduce their health care costs by switching from group insurance plans to an approach in which each employee has an individual plan. The company got its start working with churches and Christian schools.
Read MoreFast 25: RISE Commercial District
RISE Commercial District is still growing revenue, as the provider of office space, warehouse space and business storage space keeps adding locations.
Read MoreFast 25: Peterman Brothers
Peterman Brothers CEO Chad Peterman says the company’s wild ride of recent years has returned to a more normal pace, but the plumbing, electrical, heating and cooling contractor still made the Fast 25, for a fifth consecutive year.
Read MoreFast 25: Factur LLC
Factur co-founder Caleb Townsend says the company’s “long-term vision is to solve all sales and marketing problems that companies in B2B manufacturing have.”
Read MoreFast 25: Secured Tech Solutions
Secured Tech Solutions now sells, protects, supports and recycles computer hardware such as iPads, Macbooks and Chromebooks for K-12 districts.
Read MoreFast 25: BMWC Constructors Inc.
BMWC Constructors finds itself in the enviable position of helping to build facilities for companies in booming sectors.
Read MoreFast 25: The BAM Cos.
For its nearly 15 years, The BAM Cos. has focused on multifamily properties. No office space. No storage space. Just multifamily housing.
Read MoreFast 25: Donovan CPAs and Advisors
Jeffrey Donovan points to two mergers in 2022 that likely vaulted the company into the Fast 25.
Read MoreFast 25: ShipSigma
ShipSigma is a technology firm that reduces costs for high-volume shippers through invoice audits, contract negotiations, and insights and data analytics.
Read MoreFast 25: Fire Dawgs Junk Removal
The company, which does commercial and residential junk removal but also cleanouts, demolition and other services, now has 10 locations.
Read MoreFast 25: Thompson Thrift
Thompson Thrift began 37 years ago when Paul Thrift and his partner, John Thompson, acquired one repossessed home when they were in college at Indiana State University.
Read MoreFast 25: ScreenBroidery LLC
Yeah, ScreenBroidery does swag. But also custom planters, a Chia pet, a briefcase with speakers inside.
Read MoreFast 25: Performance Services
Performance Services has 17 locations in 15 states. Locations in four states—Alabama, Colorado, Florida and Georgia—were added in the past two years.
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