More agencies will be vying for a piece of the city’s income-tax revenue as next year’s budget process begins. But with that money flat-lined next year, city leaders say there may not be enough to share.
The Indiana Department of Education is paying more than $680,000 to The MindTrust, a locally based not-for-profit, to develop other ways to oversee troubled schools than the traditional elected school board.
Indianapolis leaders are hoping a new plan launched by Mayor Greg Ballard’s administration to transform the area northwest of downtown into a high-tech job and life-sciences research magnet will turn the long-discussed idea into a reality.
Officials on Thursday shared details of a long-term plan to redevelop an industrial stretch northwest of downtown with the goal of attracting hundreds of residents and dozens of high-tech companies to the area.
Corporations staged advances across a variety of industries in 2010 as the economy improved.
Posters highlighting the top 12 proposals will be on display in Monument Circle storefronts until June 26 so members of the public can vote for their favorite. The ideas could be used by planners plotting the future of the downtown space.
The convention association set out to book 725,000 hotel room nights this year for future meetings but so far is trending below the goal. An aggressive drive last year exhausted many of its prospects, new ICVA CEO Leonard Hoops said.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana is fighting the Indiana's Housing and Community Development Authority over the loss of a fundraising tax credit because of a new law that strips the not-for-profit of state funding.
The structure planned for the southwest corner of Broad Ripple and College avenues also would include first-floor retail space and a police substation. Construction is set to begin this summer and be complete by mid-2012.
Indiana communities devastated by flooding three years ago are taking steps to prevent catastrophic recurrences, but many worry that the measures aren’t enough.
Al Hubbard, the Indianapolis businessman who led a White House economic panel during President George W. Bush’s administration, has thrown his support to Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty.
Swiss health care giant Roche Holding AG has selected its diagnostics division in Indianapolis as the site for a new North America human resources center, a move that will add 50 employees to its local operations.
Three years after Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard launched a city office designed to help ex-offenders avoid a repeat prison visit, some of those original supporters say the city’s Office of Re-Entry Initiatives not only has fallen short of that goal but has accomplished little else.
We Hoosiers are an economic anomaly, an island of growth and resurgent prosperity.
A mistake in a bill that legislators meant to loosen wage requirements on government construction projects in Indiana will put all such projects — regardless of cost — under the regulations.
Equipment Technologies, a manufacturer of agricultural spraying equipment, plans to invest nearly $6.4 million in an expansion of its Mooresville operations, more than doubling its work force by 2015.
Manufacturers and distributors often avoid existing training programs.
The state is moving to adopt a system that ensures more high school graduates can perform in college or on the job.
Parents, schools need time to sift details, experts say.
But Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard also reiterated his opposition to mayoral control over all of IPS, which some local leaders have pushed for recently. He called that idea “premature.”
