Its $1.5 million investment is expected to help B2S Life Sciences more than double its staff and grow its client base, which includes contract research groups, pharmaceutical firms and biotech startups.
Indianapolis-based Earthwave Technologies Inc. is doubling the size of offices on the city’s northwest side.
Holcomb and his top economic development official, Commerce Secretary Jim Schellinger, traveled to 11 countries and 31 cities in 2017.
The Indianapolis-based firm, which connects high-growth tech ventures with resources that help them scale up, is expanding into four cities this year and dozens more by 2022.
The online grocery delivery service had pledged to invest $6.5 million in a distribution center on the city’s east side and expected to create 238 jobs by 2018.
Any tax-incentive package to lure Amazon’s HQ2 to Indiana could easily top half-a-billion dollars and climb to more than $1 billion.
Blue Marble Cocktails and Spirits is spending more than $9 million to relocate its headquarters and establish manufacturing locally. It plans to create annual capacity to produce three million, 24-can cases of its cocktails, which range from Cinnamon Toast to Bloody Mary.
Founded in 2016, the Indianapolis-based company created an app that matches food-service establishments with professionals seeking work.
Direct Connect Logistix has left the Stutz building for more space in the Cosmopolitan on the Canal building as part of its plan to add as many as 90 workers by the end of 2020.
Thyssenkrupp Steering will create 64 new jobs and plans to move existing positions from its operations in Indianapolis to the new location at Exit Five Parkway.
The 5-year-old company said it will spend about $2 million to improve its existing 10,000-square-foot downtown office.
The IEDC, which leads the state’s economic development efforts, said it secured 293 commitments in 2017 from companies around the world to locate or expand in Indiana.
The expansion is the second for the student loan giant in Indianapolis in less than two years.
A company founded a year ago by prominent local tech entrepreneur Don Brown expects to pay average salaries of $156,000 a year in new space at the IU Emerging Technology Center.
The announcement caps off what officials are calling a record year for economic development in the northern suburb—commitments for 2,185 new jobs and $64.5 million in capital investment.
The company said it will renovate and update equipment at its 10,000-square-foot facility at 9128 Technology Lane, west of the Interstate 69 and State Road 37 exit.
The Boston-based insurer said it will lease 56,000 square feet in the Parkwood Crossing office complex to accommodate the expansion.
So far in 2017, businesses have pledged to create as many as 28,846 jobs in coming years in Indiana as part of incentive deals with the state.
Clinical Architecture is spending $4.2 million on its new headquarters space while seeking software developers, clinical experts, salespeople and product managers.
Dia&Co says it will employ 500 workers in the next four years at the distribution hub. An additional 372 employees could be hired at a planned customer service center, according to an agreement with the state.
