Westfield hopes to draw business farther north New development could reduce residential tax rates Judge and Ging Jones moved to Westfield more than a decade ago to escape the congestion and crowds of Carmel. They wanted to live in a safe, friendly community with good schools where they could leave their doors unlocked during the […]
TIPPECANOE COUNTY Purdue wants tax abatement to expand research park The Purdue Research Foundation has received preliminary approval for tax abatement on its research park that would save the foundation $1.5 million in taxes. The abatement for the Purdue Research Park was approved Jan. 7 by the West Lafayette Economic Development Commission. It likely will […]
A Bloomington company that revived a former Thomson Consumer Electronics/RCA plant in that city is taking a shot at redeveloping
one of the largest industrial eyesores in Indianapolis, also a former RCA complex. Pinnacle Properties plans to spend $20
million redeveloping the 13-building property northwest of Sherman Drive and East Michigan Street.
Back when they arrived in 1996, there were lots of open spaces and taxes were low, Jones said. “Overall, it was a good place to live,” he said. Jones said he still loves living in Westfield, which is 20 miles north of Indianapolis. But he admits things are changing, which is a double-edged sword. Eight years ago, according to the U.S. census, Westfield had just 9,300 people. Now, it’s a rapidly growing city with a population of 24,000, an increase…
Has your cell phone exploded lately? A cell phone battery literally blows up, shattering the phone and spraying hot components like shrapnel. Detonating phones haven’t killed anyone that I could determine, but they’ve caused several trips to the hospital for lacerations, burns and broken eardrums. When it happens, manufacturers understandably scramble to find out why, and the answer today is often that the battery was actually a knockoff, a counterfeit that looks just like the real thing, but might be…
Texas-based Harland Clarke Corp. plans to relocate its Decatur, Ga., operations to its location in Jeffersonville, investing at least $1.5 million and adding 50 workers by 2010. Harland Clarke prints checks, deposit slips and other products for financial institutions. The company already employs about 200 in Jeffersonville. The first jobs to be added this year […]
Indiana Steel and Tube, a steel processor in the southern Indiana community of Brownstown, plans to expand and hire 100 extra workers by 2010, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced yesterday. The $8 million plant will begin making about 2,500 tons of steel coil this year. The state offered nearly $975,000 in incentives, and the […]
A plant in Greenwood operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Climate Control Inc. will close in September because the company lost a key contract with an undisclosed customer, according to the Daily Journal of Franklin. Some of the 60 workers might be transferred to a plant operated by the company at its headquarters in nearby Franklin. […]
The city plans to designate part of an office park near 96th Street and Keystone Avenue as an “economic revitalization area” to provide tax abatements for a local company that sells ADT security systems and Dish Network subscriptions. The company, Defender Security Co., has pledged to more than triple its Indiana work force-adding more than 1,100 new jobs-over the next 10 years. The state offered the company up to $6 million in tax credits and $345,000 in training grants to…
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Airport sinks approved
The Indianapolis Airport Authority board has approved an obscure bid package known as “T-31” that provides for the installation of floor-level foot sinks for…
Growth at Roche Diagnostics will push across 96th Street and take over the Marsh Supermarkets headquarters building, Roche announced today. By the end of 2010, Roche will transfer roughly 340 jobs to the new location from its campus in the northeast corner of Marion County, which serves as the company’s North American headquarters. Swiss-based Roche, […]
The state’s largest beer and wine distributor is considering a long-abandoned drive-in theater in Lawrence for a new headquarters.
Monarch Beverage Co. has outgrown its home along Interstate 465 just east of the airport and has been looking for a place
to move for a year.
Local governments plan to throw Steak n Shake Co. a life raft of incentives worth about $275,000 to help the struggling chain
keep its headquarters in Indianapolis. The company has quietly agreed to retain about 180 employees here in exchange for a
$200,000 state training grant and a five-year personal property tax abatement worth about $75,000.
West Terre Haute-based Marion Manufacturing said it plans to spend $2 million to expand its operations and more than double its work force by 2011. The woman-owned business provides machining services to heavy-equipment makers like Illinois-based Caterpillar, as well as automotive, aerospace, agriculture and medical clients. The company employs 35 and expects to hire another […]
DCL Medical Laboratories will add 125 jobs at its Indianapolis offices, the company announced today. DCL, which provides clinical laboratory test services to makers of drugs and medical devices, will invest more than $4.7 million and add more than 20,000 square feet of commercial laboratory space in its expansion. The company now employs more than […]
Just Marketing International plans to spend more than $3 million to expand its Zionsville headquarters. The motorsports marketing company said the expansion will create 47 jobs that pay up to $28 an hour. Just Marketing employs 90. The company will receive up to $350,000 in tax credits and training grants, as well as a possible […]
SHELBY COUNTY Growing pains for Morristown The tiny town of Morristown is drawing a lot of interest from expansion-minded businesses. Crane Werks, which repairs overhead cranes, wants the Morristown Town Council to give it tax abatements to buy an abandoned Nabisco building where it would expand its operations. Also, Integrity Metals of Connersville has told […]
A couple of development projects that would include tax abatements are up for hearings Wednesday at the Metropolitan Development Commission:
Community Hospital of Indiana Inc. plans to spend $3.7 million updating and expanding…
Author Solutions Inc. will transfer jobs from China to its home base in Bloomington as part of an expansion announced today. The provider of self-publishing services will spend $4.5 million on the consolidation, which will add 140 jobs to its headquarters. Author Solutions already employs 230 in Bloomington, and another 50 in Indianapolis. It maintained […]
Roche Diagnostics has canceled a deal with Marsh Supermarkets to sublease the grocer’s corporate headquarters in Fishers. The Swiss-based manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and medical diagnostic equipment said in March it planned to move 340 employees into the 148,000-square-foot building that has served as the headquarters of Marsh since 1991. But Roche terminated the deal late […]
