Vouchers help startups turn small ideas into big ones
Startups, small businesses and entrepreneurs who have an idea with commercialization potential can tap into a system of state funding and support through a research-focused grant program.
Startups, small businesses and entrepreneurs who have an idea with commercialization potential can tap into a system of state funding and support through a research-focused grant program.
Property taxes again took center stage during tax reform discussions Tuesday—with farmers asking for a reprieve and local units of government seeking to head off significant cuts in revenue.
Major drivers of the increase include higher costs from the supplemental spending package signed in April.
SK Hynix is planning to build a $3.87 billion semiconductor packaging facility at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette.
That represents $125 million in road improvements, $31 million in new roundabouts, $16.7 million in trail projects and $12.5 million in park projects. Half the projects have fundings allocated; the city is studying how to fund the other half.
Although the possibility of a Major League Soccer stadium in Indianapolis is still up in the air, city officials are considering design possibilities for their preferred site, on the east side of downtown.
The April 25 announcement that the city is pursuing a Major League Soccer franchise followed more than three months of secret phone calls, emails and other interactions between city leaders, MLS officials and a longtime soccer executive named Tom Glick.
City officials say the decision to walk away from the Eleven Park development was in taxpayers’ best interest. But the Keystone Group says the move was driven by misplaced ambitions and a lack of interest in discussing specifics of the project’s finances.
Indiana’s strategy for economic development and job creation has emerged as a key issue in the Republican gubernatorial primary—and the future of the state’s still-developing LEAP district in Boone County could be at stake in the outcome.
The Tenant Advocacy Project, launched in 2021, is one of the few tools city officials have to fight Indianapolis’ high frequency of evictions, and organizers want to see the program continue.
Amid a shift in work habits prompted by the coronavirus pandemic and a squeeze in the tech industry, the downturn in hiring marks another setback in the boost Amazon had initially promised.
The South Korean company’s announcement made waves across Indiana, but so did a decision by Minnesota-based SkyWater Technology to cancel its project at Purdue after not receiving hoped-for federal funding.
Rep. Victoria Spartz’s late decision to run for reelection in Indiana’s 5th Congressional District—an about-face from months earlier—shook up a crowded primary that has become a rarity in American politics, with nine Republicans facing off.
The IEDC said the first-quarter financial commitments, which came from 45 companies planning to locate or expand in Indiana, ranged from $81,000 to $11 billion apiece.
The project will focus on the roofline and include gutter repair, chimney masonry work, rotunda masonry work and cleaning, window replacement/repair, limited patching and repair of the roof where needed, and, finally, cleaning of the copper dome.
In light of a new report finding Indiana’s housing affordability worsened over the last year, a group of advocates on Thursday called on Gov. Eric Holcomb to establish a dedicated task force, saying lawmakers haven’t done enough to solve the state’s housing crisis.
At least seven projects have been announced around since the Legislature in 2019 passed an economic development aimed specifically at data centers, which house computers, servers, and related hardware and equipment.
With a new mayor and a completely new city council in Westfield, developers have resumed submitting projects to a city they say they’ve avoided the past four years.
A $7 million, three-phased relocation project will move more than 600 employees across several city agencies from various rented spaces to either the City-County Building or the new Community Justice Campus, on Southeastern Avenue.
Lawmakers on the Indiana House Roads and Transportation Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony Tuesday on Senate Bill 52, mostly from opponents who said the legislation would jeopardize the future of the planned Blue Line bus line and cause Indianapolis to lose out on $150 million in federal infrastructure improvements.