While businesses consider many factors before choosing where to locate, economic development experts say a community’s openness to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals increasingly is one of them.
The project includes adding a new eastbound lane on 116th Street from Interstate 69 to Cumberland Road. The city would have to acquire as many as eight homes in the area for the necessary land.
City officials are considering incentives for the two-story project, which would feature a restaurant and brewery on the first floor and office space for lease on the second level.
Instead of approving the $3 million request in funding for a countywide public-safety training facility, the Hamilton County Council agreed to provide $568,000 for a fire-training tower.
For businesses looking for small offices, Fishers is practically booked up. The demand for office spaces of 5,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet has ramped up recently in the fast-growing suburb, but supply hasn’t kept pace.
Only about 2 percent of the avalanche of residential units built in Hamilton County the last five years is dedicated to affordable housing.
Indiana Ice Arenas LLC, an affiliate of the minor league hockey team, has finalized the $1.85 million purchase of the ice rink.
Angie’s List has long been considered the 800-pound gorilla in the home-services market, an industry estimated to be worth at least $400 billion annually. But three tech startups from its own back yard believe they can better connect consumers and service providers.
The utility already has begun work on the project in an 88-acre former limestone quarry, which could provide another 25 million gallons of water per day when the reservoir opens in 2020.
The equity round, led by Carmel-based Allos Ventures and St. Louis-based Cultivation Capital, is the third round of financing for the company in less than a year.
A couple of months after the sheriff's sale of the Fishers Banquet and Conference Center, an adjacent property with the same owners also is headed to auction.
A fast-growing city like Fishers can add thousands of new residents in just a few years. But several state funding allocations are based on population numbers the U.S. Census Bureau collects only once a decade, which could grossly underestimate the city’s density.
According to 2014 population estimates recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Fishers has grown 12.4 percent since the 2010 census and has 86,325 residents.
The northern Indianapolis suburbs are struggling to improve their doorsteps despite tight budgets, right-of-way acquisition obstacles and fickle public tastes.
Conner Prairie President and CEO Ellen Rosenthal has led tremendous growth at the interactive history park in Fishers since 2003. She plans to retire at the end of the year.
I recently spent a few hours at the newest, oldest and biggest co-working spaces to see what all the hype is about.
The Fishers City Council might vote on a resolution Monday night that would extend the economic-incentives deal for the proposed destination brewery and tasting room by two years.
The Fishers Redevelopment Commission is looking for a new two- or three-story building to occupy about a half-acre of land in the Nickel Plate District.
The runway at Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport in Fishers is set for an upgrade, and dozens of acres on the airport’s perimeter might be developed for industrial and retail use—signaling a turning point in a long-simmering feud.
Two Purdue University programs have announced intentions to occupy the second floor of the Fishers Switch development.
