Township jobs offer benefits, money for little work
Just like Willie Sutton, who liked to rob banks because that’s where the money was, I’m going to get myself a job in township government because, "There is gold in them thar hills."
Just like Willie Sutton, who liked to rob banks because that’s where the money was, I’m going to get myself a job in township government because, "There is gold in them thar hills."
Lauth Properties alleges in a lawsuit that the state’s plan to rebuild 13 miles of U.S. 31 in Hamilton County to freeway standards will cut off access to a property it owns in Westfield, killing plans for a Wal-Mart there. The case filed in Hamilton Superior Court could be the first of many legal challenges […]
Lauth Properties alleges in a lawsuit that the state’s plan to rebuild 13 miles of U.S. 31 in Hamilton County to freeway standards
will cut off access to a property it owns in Westfield, killing plans for a Wal-Mart there.
The state has frozen the assets of three Indianapolis-area businesspeople, including the owners of J.S. Marten Jewelers in Carmel, as part of a fraud investigation, the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office announced late Wednesday afternoon. The state said Dorothy Geisler-Tragardh, formerly a partner in Virginia-based clean-coal energy company Praxis Resource Partners LLC, and jewelers Jan […]
Township officials provide many services for the community, molded by back-yard input, which enhances quality of life.
A Hamilton County woman accused of swindling investors in a clean coal energy startup agreed today to an injunction that freezes her assets, including artwork by Pablo Picasso, jewelry and a luxury waterfront home. The agreement in Marion Superior Court makes permanent a temporary restraining order issued last week by Judge Patrick McCarty following a […]
A Hamilton County woman accused of swindling investors in a clean coal energy startup agreed yesterday to an injunction that freezes her assets, including artwork by Pablo Picasso, jewelry and a luxury waterfront home. The agreement in Marion Superior Court makes permanent a temporary restraining order issued last week by Judge Patrick McCarty following a […]
Former Marsh Supermarkets Inc. CEO Don Marsh is denying allegations that he treated his former company like “a personal checkbook” to bankroll extravagant trips, maintain vacation homes and hide relationships with female employees. Those accusations were made in a lawsuit filed last week in Hamilton County by the locally-based grocery chain. IBJ first reported the […]
Central Indiana pending home sales dropped 2.7 percent in March compared to the same period last year, according to the latest statistics from the F.C. Tucker Co., yet brokers say they remain optimistic as the inventory of available homes begins to balance out. Overall, the number of pending home sales in the nine-county Indianapolis area […]
The old adage that retail follows rooftops is only partially true; retail also follows taxpayer-funded incentives. Simon Property Group Inc. built central Indiana’s newest mall, Hamilton Town Center, along a major thoroughfare in one of the state’s most appealing spots for retail. Yet both Simon and Noblesville officials say the $126 million project would not […]
The old adage that retail follows rooftops is only partially true; retail also follows taxpayer-funded incentives.
The mayor of Westfield announced plans this morning to build a $60 million youth sports complex with a 4,000-seat multipurpose outdoor stadium, indoor sports facilities, and fields for baseball, soccer, softball and lacrosse. The sports facilities would anchor a 1,500-acre development by locally based Estridge Co. along Towne Road between 146th and 161st streets. The […]
The mayor of Westfield announced plans this morning to build a $60 million youth sports complex with a 4,000-seat multipurpose outdoor stadium, indoor sports facilities, and fields for baseball, soccer, softball and lacrosse. The sports facilities would anchor a 1,500-acre development by locally based Estridge Co. along Towne Road between 146th and 161st streets.
The mayor of Westfield announced plans this morning to build a $60 million youth sports complex with a 4,000-seat multipurpose outdoor stadium, indoor sports facilities, and fields for baseball, soccer, softball and lacrosse. The sports facilities would anchor a 1,500-acre development by locally based Estridge Co. along Towne Road between 146th and 161st streets. The […]
He went back and forth, but ultimately the mayor of Westfield decided to go with his gut. Mayor Andy Cook, the first to hold that title in the fast-growing Hamilton County suburb, settled on “Family Sports Capital of America.” He and his advisers had weighed “Family Sports Capital of the Midwest,” but eventually opted to […]
Westfield Mayor Andy Cook is proposing a $60 million youth sports complex with a 4,000-seat multipurpose outdoor
stadium, indoor sports facilities and sports fields with the goal of establishing the Hamilton County community as the "Family Sports Capital
of America."
A state legislator faces a lawsuit over her role in hiring a company that provides software for property-tax calculations in central Indiana’s Clinton County. Rep. Jacque Clements has denied any wrongdoing in her work for the county. She was county auditor before her election to the Legislature last year and was a part-time deputy auditor […]
A proposed passenger rail line between downtown and Noblesville has drawn applause from Hamilton County commuters enduring highway congestion. But local leaders and, soon, a national team of experts, are quietly developing a strategy to revitalize what lies on the other end of the line: Marion County’s biggest concentration of brownfield sites and impoverished urban […]
Indianapolis has built a tidy book of business in the convention trade. Confabs ranging from the National FFA to Gen Con generated nearly 22 million visitors and $3.5 billion in spending in 2006 alone, according to D.K. Shifflet & Associates and Global Insight. With a new airport terminal and Lucas Oil Stadium up and running, […]
Some industry insiders worry that, while Indianapolis is busy chasing bigger conventions, adjoining counties may raid the cupboard made plentiful by investments within Marion County, particularly downtown.