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HotBox launching franchise effort

Locally based HotBox Pizza plans to introduce its pies to a nationwide audience. The pizza chain won regulatory approval last week to begin selling franchises in Indiana, Michigan and Texas. The chain is…

Philly DA pursues Harrison case

The Indianapolis Colts’ marketing nightmare involving Marvin Harrison’s possible participation in a shooting incident in his hometown of Philadelphia appears far from over.

Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham this week asked police to reinterview witnesses in the case, a police department source…

Bloomington Hospital OKs Clarian merger

A planned merger of Bloomington Hospital into Indianapolis-based Clarian Health was approved 403-149 last night by the Bloomington facility’s governing body, the Local Council of Women. The Local Council, which founded the hospital more than 100 years ago, had to revise hospital bylaws to clear the way for the merger. Clarian will receive 51 percent […]

State economy nearly stalled in 2007

Indiana‘s economy expanded only 0.3 percent, to $246.4 billion, last year, new figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show. The growth is on top of inflation. Only seven states performed worse. Indiana was hit hard by the slowdown of the Detroit auto industry, according to a blog written by Bill Testa, a vice […]

Farm and suburban polluters

Drive through areas hit by the deluge of rain in the past few days and youâ??ll see mind-boggling soil
erosion.

At the base of myriad fields lie deltas of sediment washed downhill from elsewhere in their respective watersheds.
Not only was…

Diagnostic imaging centers change hands

Three outpatient magnetic resonance imaging centers in Indianapolis have been sold by their Atlanta-based owner, American Health Imaging Inc., to the Minneapolis-based Center for Diagnostic Imaging. The price was not disclosed. The centers were called Indianapolis Health Imaging. American Health Imaging is exiting Indianapolis as well as Ohio as it grapples with a challenging business […]

Reorganization points Arcadia in better direction

Arcadia Resources Inc. narrowed its losses in its fiscal fourth quarter, the Indianapolis-based home health care company reported today. Arcadia also grew its net revenue by nearly 8 percent to more than $37 million. The company recorded a net loss of $3.1 million in the quarter ended March 31. In the same period a year […]

IU fights battles on two fronts

It’s difficult to say which challenge will be more daunting for Indiana University’s athletic department—the king-size sinkhole in the school’s football field or the self-inflicted wound to the image of its men’s basketball…

St. Francis buries hatchet with Cigna, Sagamore

St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers settled a contract dispute with Cigna HealthCare and its Sagamore Health Network last week, days before their old contract expired June 15. The new reimbursement contract will run through 2011. Indianapolis’ fourth-largest hospital system made public its feud with the Philadelphia-based health insurer in early May. The agreement allows […]

Bloomington should store data, consultant says

A consultant hired to help Bloomington decide how to replace lost manufacturing jobs recommends storing data for companies. Boyd Co. Inc. said in a recent report that Bloomington ranked third in a list of 45 cities in suitability for hosting data storage centers, according to The Herald-Times of Bloomington. The centers, which generate well-paying jobs, […]

Bosch buying West Lafayette firm for $205M

German industrial giant Robert Bosch GmbH said late last week that it plans to buy CST/berger, a West Lafayette-based maker of laser tools, for $205 million. The deal must be approved by regulators. CST/berger is owned by The Stanley Works of New Britain, Conn. Its tools for measuring, detection and leveling help contractors and homeowners […]

You-review-it Monday

A busy weekend for me included spending quality time with “Some Men” at the Phoenix Theatre, an afternoon visit to the Indy Jazz Fest, finally getting to see “Iron Man” at the movies, a trip to Bollywood courtesy of the Gregory…

MONROE COUNTY

MONROE COUNTY Self-publisher eyes new offices Expansion plans for Bloomington’s Author Solutions Inc. likely will eventually include a new building near the firm’s offices at State Road 37 and Second Street. Author Solutions CEO Kevin Weiss tells IBJ he has been looking around at sites to accommodate an influx of 130 new employees in the […]

TIPPECANOE COUNTY

TIPPECANOE COUNTY New research-to-market institute will be based on Purdue campus Purdue University will be part of a group that will use a $25 million grant to help turn health discoveries into commercial products through the creation of the Indiana Clinical Translational Sciences Institute. The National Institutes of Health will give the five-year grant to […]

HAMILTON COUNTY

HAMILTON COUNTY Carmel to sing virtues of Great American Songbook Carmel’s new 1,600-seat Regional Performing Arts Center has attracted a permanent resident. The Feinstein Foundation for the Education and Preservation of the Great American Songbook plans to relocate its headquarters there. The Feinstein Foundation, currently based in Los Angeles, holds museum artifacts that originally belonged […]

BOONE COUNTY

BOONE COUNTY Internet provider gets reprieve Lebanon Utilities will continue offering Internet service despite calls from a few utility board members to cancel the service. At a meeting in early June, the Lebanon Utilities Service Board voted 3-2 to continue providing the iLines service through a restructuring that establishes a telecommunications department within the city’s […]

SHELBY COUNTY

SHELBY COUNTY Shelbyville troubles shut down Kings Title & Abstract Co. Troubles that surfaced in October at the Shelbyville office of Kings Title & Abstract Co. have now scuttled the company, one of the state’s largest title insurance agencies, and led to felony charges against one of its former employees. New Castle-based Kings Title ceased […]

JOHNSON COUNTY

JOHNSON COUNTY High fuel costs boost firm Casting Technologies Co., which makes lighter automotive parts that improve vehicles’ fuel efficiency, will expand this summer and add 40 new employees as part of its most recent $3 million expansion. It is the company’s second expansion in a year. The company, which employs 110 at its 183,000-square-foot […]

Flagship rises over post-GM town

Flagship rises over post-GM town Incubator has helped preserve automotive talent base, foster diverse businesses ANDERSON – Along Interstate 69, in a new industrial building with side-windows covered in paper to foil prying eyes, Altair Nanotechnologies is perfecting a ceramic oxide battery with three times the power of a conventional lithium battery. Up the road, […]