Area home sales tick up
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area rose 3.3 percent in November, marking the third consecutive month they’ve showed a year-over-year increase.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area rose 3.3 percent in November, marking the third consecutive month they’ve showed a year-over-year increase.
Hoosier Energy, which supplies electricity to customers in 48 counties in central and southern Indiana, has settled a dispute
that had threatened to plunge the utility into bankruptcy.
I have always found Morton Marcus’ columns both entertaining and informative. I read the Dec. 7 column, in which
Marcus seems to insinuate that property taxes were acceptable as they were and do not require modifications. As a resident
of Marion County, I could not disagree more.
Here is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most.
Marion County Commissioners reappointed Doug Brown on Thursday morning to the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, leaving
only one seat open on the nine-member panel whose financial troubles this year have elevated its profile.
Here is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most.
The Washington Township Schools Foundation on the north side is among those that wants to raise money
for buildings and other high-cost needs.
Brenda Myers, executive director of the Hamilton County Convention and Visitors Bureau, rounds out the appointments to a restructured
Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board.
Lithium battery-maker will get incentives worth $53.1 million for expansion into Hancock County.
In Indiana, the Salvation Army owns 34 residences, including 10 in Indianapolis with a combined value of $1.6 million.
Farmers who might have worried about losing their livelihood
to new homes or retail have gotten a little breather.
Home sales statewide rose 4.1 percent in December compared with the same month in 2008, although Marion and Hamilton counties
reported sizable slides.
Strip-center owner and developer Sandor Development Co. is moving its headquarters to Hamilton County after almost 50 years
in Indianapolis.
Hamilton County is poised to become the demographic all-star of the decade. Its 269,785 residents make up the fastest-growing,
most educated and wealthiest county in the state, according to estimates from the Indiana Business Research Center.
With traffic congestion growing, the idea of sending streetcars zipping down Washington Street—from
far-east-side Cumberland to Indianapolis International Airport on the west—is making a return. And
the route could offer the best bang for the buck in spurring transit-oriented development.
Strip-center specialist Sandor Development Co. is moving its headquarters to Hamilton County after almost 50 years
in Indianapolis.
Hamilton Southeastern, Franklin Township and Middlebury Community Schools of Elkhart County say the school-funding formula
unfairly penalizes districts with growing enrollments.
The housing market could be awakening from its deep sleep, if February home-sale agreement figures are any indication.