Carmel is set to receive $15.4 million in previously withheld Local Option Income Tax revenue from the state. The suburb is considering a strategy that will let it comply with state requirements for the special funding while still using it leverage more debt.
Earlier this year, the Hamilton County Commissioners put the project at the top of their priority list for capital expenses, but several members of the Hamilton County Council were hesitant to support a $12 million expansion.
A former mayor of Carmel, a current mayor in Boone County, a bakery owner, a small concert venue owner, and two well-known Noblesville sisters are featured in IBJ’s annual Q&A extravaganza.
While Indianapolis pursues major sporting events and massive conventions—gatherings that attract tens of thousands of people and score tens of millions of dollars in economic impact—many neighboring counties are chasing small and midsize corporate confabs, weddings and senior-citizen bus tours.
In addition to having early voting at the Hamilton County Judicial Center, satellite voting centers will be open at the Carmel Clay Public Library and Fishers City Hall.
Opposition to a proposed horse track in Carmel is what drove Jane Reiman to run for mayor of the Hamilton County city in 1979. Almost four decades later, she’s back working at the city—with a little less responsibility but still plenty of passion.
The town announced Thursday that it would provide the 1,200-square-foot building at 390 S. Main St. to a Boosterville, a startup firm that offers a shopping app with a charitable bent.
Since May, the Carmel not-for-profit has lost its CEO and president, vice president of marketing and communications, and vice president of finance.
The former dispatch facility would be demolished and possibly replaced with condos, according to Mayor Jim Brainard.
The Carmel Redevelopment Commission has purchased one property on the northeast corner of Main Street and Rangeline Road and is in negotiations for the remaining parcels.
On the same night the Fishers City Council gave itself a 58 percent pay hike, members unanimously voted to charge residents and businesses a new tax for every registered vehicle they own starting in 2018.
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard told Carmel City Council members during budget hearings last week that BlueIndy had received permission from its parent company, Bollore Group, to scout sites throughout the city.
Developer Chris R. White initially proposed the $300 million project known as Aurora in 2006 but it fell victim to the Great Recession.
Quent Partners LLC is requesting a rezone of about 18 acres on the southwest corner of the Westfield intersection to allow for a bank, multiple retail and office buildings, a grocery store and a standalone restaurant.
The company plans to spend $825,000 to construct a 9,000-square-foot headquarters that will provide warehouse and office space.
Verdure Sciences has filed plans with Noblesville to build a 15,000-square-foot facility on a 7-acre property in the Metro Enterprise Park near the southwest corner of Pleasant Street and Union Chapel Road.
Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness plans to ask the Fishers City Council to impose a wheel tax to help fund future road maintenance projects. His proposal calls for the maximum allowable tax.
Anytime Fitness is also adding two Hamilton County locations, and Chipotle Mexican Grill is coming to Noblesville.
A company founded in 1999 with $30,000 and a home computer grew into a multimillion-dollar business. Now it will be part of a Denver health staffing company.
Attendance was down about 13 percent from when Crooked Stick last hosted the tournament in 2012, but this year’s event was plagued by rainy, stormy weather that delayed rounds during the first three days of play.
