Jim Brainard looks back on 28 years as Carmel mayor
Brainard, 69, announced in September 2022 that he would not seek an eighth term. Sue Finkam, a Republican member of the Carmel City Council, will succeed him on Jan. 1.
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Brainard, 69, announced in September 2022 that he would not seek an eighth term. Sue Finkam, a Republican member of the Carmel City Council, will succeed him on Jan. 1.
The city will have new places to stay overnight and watch a hockey game. Fishers city government will move into a new home, and so will an Italy-based manufacturer.
Indiana lawmakers expect to file and advance significant child care legislation during the upcoming session, after years of advocacy from Hoosier parents, child care providers and worker-strapped businesses.
As an alternative, the House approved a separate measure that would allow the City-County Council to increase the countywide local income tax by .02% to help pay for the operating costs of a homeless shelter and various improvements in the city’s Mile Square.
The agreement between J.C. Hart Co. and residents of the Oxbow Estates and Spirit Lake condominiums cleared the way for the City-County Council to unanimously approve a rezoning of the former Willows Event Center property.
However, the Hamilton County community will maintain its long-term sister-city relationship with a Chinese city.
With a new mayor and a completely new city council in Westfield, developers have resumed submitting projects to a city they say they’ve avoided the past four years.
Carmel argued the law harmed the city by depriving it of tens of millions of dollars in local income tax revenue it would have otherwise received.
Carmel’s housing options mostly fit into two opposite categories: single-family detached houses in subdivisions and multifamily apartment buildings in the downtown core. City officials want to explore a third category: the “missing middle.”
For more than 20 years, real estate developer Ersal Ozdemir has sought to change skylines with unique and high-end projects across central Indiana. These days, the IBJ Forty Under 40 alum is in the thick of numerous developments stretching from multiple spots in Hamilton County to Fort Benjamin Harrison to downtown. He’s in talks with […]
It’s the latest in a series of blows for ReJoyce and CEO Alexander Joyce, who gained attention locally through his frequent informercials but has faced numerous legal problems in recent years.
Plans call for the project to cost an estimated $47 million and feature a food hall, community gathering space, office space, apartments and a public parking garage.
Five Republican gubernatorial candidates sought to undermine each other’s records during a final debate Tuesday night ahead of Indiana’s May 7 Primary Election, but took few shots at the absent U.S. Sen. Mike Braun.
Two open Indiana House district seats in the northern suburbs feature contested Republican primary elections.
Koola Logistics LLC, which works as an intermediary between trucking providers and people who ship goods, has signed an incentive deal with the state to aid in its expansion plans.
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The Indy Chamber hosted 10 mayors from the area Wednesday to discuss economic development at its State of the Region event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
A Mooresville investor is alleging that Carmel-based retirement planning firm ReJoyce Financial LLC and CEO Alexander Joyce misappropriated more than $200,000 that she had deposited with the firm to invest on her behalf.
Republican delegates picked Beckwith, a minister, over Rep. Julie McGuire, who had been nominated by the party’s gubernatorial nominee and was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
The Hamilton County Public Safety Center will be built on 22 acres and house 911 dispatchers, an emergency operations center, training areas, storage and possibly a child-care area.