Greenwood-based Zimmerman Biotechnologies LLC hopes to become the first company in the United States to make generic insulin,
a long-awaited development in diabetes treatment. The Greenwood Common Council on Feb. 1 will consider an $8.4 million deal
that would finance construction of an insulin factory, as well as help Zimmerman with FDA-approval and equipment expenses.
Greenwood Mayor Charles Henderson says his city is willing to pay up to $8 million toward construction of a new Interstate
65 interchange in order to speed up the project.
Franklin is home to one of the
nation’s foremost sellers of antique car components, but co-owners Fred Bruner and Max
Merritt fear the ride might be slowing.
Greenwood and White River Township officials advance a plan that would create Indiana’s sixth-largest city, if residents
approve it May 4.
A proposal to incorporate portions of White River Township into the city of Greenwood passed a major hurdle on Tuesday.
Counties wanting to speed traffic among suburbs are building highways to avoid having to travel into Indianapolis. The result,
a 100-mile outer loop beyond Interstate 465, won’t be completed for years, and it won’t be built to consistent standards,
but it might help ease congestion.
Muncie-based First Merchants Corp. said Monday afternoon that loan charge-offs contributed to a loss of $6.4 million in the third quarter.
IndyGo, for all its faults, is the Cadillac of transit systems in the Indianapolis region. Service breaks at county lines
and the absence of passenger shelters are among the deficiencies facing transit systems in surrounding counties.
The Johnson County community hopes an economic stimulus grant for transportation will hasten its plans to build an east-west
thoroughfare and set the stage for a new Interstate 65 interchange.
Greenwood officials have begun discussing the possibility of moving the town’s small municipal airport to a more rural area
east of Interstate 65.
The Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority, IndyGo and other Indianapolis-area transit groups are the subject of
a study that could result in them being reorganized.
Home-building powerhouse Ryan Homes is marketing lots in 10 subdivisions it has taken over from the defunct local builder
CP Morgan Communities.
Cabela’s is selling the land on which it had planned to build a store in Greenwood.
The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor is seeking public input on a proposed rate hike by American Water Inc.,
which has 283,000 customers in the state, including in Noblesville and Greenwood.
An event stretching from Noblesville to Bargersville might be the best opportunity ever to check out wind- and solar-energy
projects in one afternoon.
The new city would count more than 80,000 residents. In terms of population, it would zoom past Fishers and Carmel to rank
sixth or seventh in the state.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area dropped 3.1 percent in July over the same month a year ago, according
to a report released yesterday by F.C. Tucker Co.
The Phoenix Group, a Greenwood-based supply-chain services company, said yesterday that it has added 15 employees within the
past month and plans to hire about 200 more workers by the end of 2010.
The barter network Tradebank has opened a franchise in Indianapolis with two veterans from Louisville.
Franklin College has a new office that helps Johnson County not-for-profits develop Web sites and recruit volunteers. The
Nonprofit Resource Center was sparked in part by the lack of volunteer coordination during the summer floods of
2008.
