LEADING QUESTIONS: Influential Miles enjoys wide reach
What's the status of the Super Bowl? Mass transit for Indy? Economic development? How is one man so connected? Mark Miles shrugs off "power broker" but fits the bill.
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General Mills plans $36M distribution center
General Mills Inc. announced Tuesday it would spend $36 million in building the new distribution center in Fort Wayne and potentially add 65 jobs by the end of 2012.
UPDATE: Software firm plans 70 jobs in HQ relocation
Blue Pillar Inc., which produces software for energy-management data systems, is moving to Indianapolis from Georgia and plans 70 jobs by 2015.
Medical device manufacturer seeks abatement
Indianapolis-based Medivative Technologies plans to build a 9,000-square-foot addition to its east-side facility and spend $2.5 million to equip it. The expansion should create 15 jobs.
Chamber names former utility leader as interim president
Past board chairman David N. Griffiths will fill in for Roland Dorson, who resigned as president of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce last week in the wake of a dispute with board leaders.
Dorson resigns from chamber post
Roland Dorson, president of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce since 1996, resigned Friday. He had taken a leave of absence earlier in the month.
UPDATE: Chamber leaders clashed on transit strategy
A turf battle over mass transit may have fueled Roland Dorson's apparent departure from the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.
Dorson on leave amid fallout with executive committee
Roland Dorson, president of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, has had a falling out with the group’s executive committee and has gone on leave from the organization.
Tax breaks approved for bioanalytical lab operator
The Metropolitan Development Commission on Wednesday preliminarily approved Advion BioServices Inc.’s request for a tax abatement to build a laboratory at Purdue Research Park in Indianapolis.
City considering abatement terminations, continuances
Five companies are set to have their tax breaks terminated or continued as the city attempts to update the state of the benefits that date to the previous administration.
Bioanalytical researcher seeking abatement for new lab
Advion, a provider of bioanalytical research and a subsidiary of Ithaca, N.Y.-based Advion BioSciences Inc., is expected to open the 22,000-square-foot lab in mid-May with 49 employees, according to the company’s application.
New state law to help young entrepreneurs
The measure calls for the Indiana Economic Development Corp. to promote the ideas of students who graduate from entrepreneurship programs at state universities.
Software services firm plans 500 jobs in Evansville
SS&C Technologies said it will create the jobs by investing about $3.9 million to open a service and technology center in the southwestern Indiana city. The company will begin hiring immediately and expects to begin operating in the second quarter of 2011.
CICP exec Gifford heading regional transit task force
At the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, Gifford will work primarily with the private-sector-led Central Indiana Transit Task Force, the regional mass transit initiative co-founded by CICP.
Indy Partnership makes leadership change official
In a move IBJ reported Feb. 15, Scott Fulford, a member of the organization's business development team, has been picked to lead Indiana Partnership, the group announced Tuesday.
DeVry wins abatements for nursing school
The Metropolitan Development Commission awarded the tax abatements for the nursing school, set to open in October, despite opposition from the Nora-Northside Community Council and Metropolitan School District of Washington Township.
Indy Chamber rolls out app
The MyChamberApp works with the usual suspects, such as the iPhone, iPod, Android and Blackberry.
Casket maker plans $16.5M investment, 300 jobs
Indianapolis-based Genesis Casket Co., launched just last year, expects to produce 30,000 caskets in its first full year of operation. The company plans to fill the first 150 jobs by the time the plant opens this summer.
Local group heading Down Under for biz opportunities
Develop Indy, Marion County’s local economic development organization, plans to lead a delegation of officials to Australia to attract life sciences-related business opportunities, the group announced Friday morning.
China company bringing 150 jobs to Lafayette
Nanshan America Co. will invest $98.5 million to construct a manufacturing facility and office building, with work slated to begin in the spring. The company will start hiring in the fall.