A pair of local development firms are planning an ambitious $175 million-plus redevelopment of the downtown block that includes the Indianapolis City Market and Gold Building, with a heavy focus on bringing more apartments to the city’s central business district.... Read More
Work is underway in the Daviess County city of Washington to build a $14.5 million apartment complex, the first large-scale multi-unit building in years, according to economic development officials. Business and government leaders broke ground Wednesday on the Cypress Point housing project.... Read More
The vice chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College in Warsaw says a new partnership with Whitko Community School Corp. in Larwill will help prepare high school students for the rigors of college and save money for their families.... Read More
Israel-based Doral Renewables LLC says it has closed on construction financing for the first phase of a $1.5 billion solar farm in Starke and Pulaski counties. The first phase, known as Mammoth North, is expected to generate enough electricity to power 75,000 homes annually.... Read More
West Lafayette-based Inotiv Inc. (Nadaq: NOTV) says it will close two facilities in Virginia that are currently operated by its Indianapolis-based subsidiary, Envigo RMS. One of the facilities is a dog breeding facility in Cumberland that is the subject of a lawsuit alleging animal welfare law violations.... Read More
The College Football Playoff says January’s national championship game in Indianapolis was the most sustainable championship in the event’s history. Through the CFP’s Playoff Green program, the organization says teams hand-sorted and recovered more than 117 tons of materials throughout downtown Indy over a two-week period.... Read More
WorkOne is hosting a job fair Wednesday for Walmart workers who lost their jobs this spring when fire swept through a Walmart (NYSE: WMT) Fulfillment Center in Plainfield... Read More
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) and Incyte (Nasdaq: INCY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved OLUMIANT as a treatment for adults with severe alopecia areata. The approval was based on Lilly's BRAVE-AA1 and BRAVE-AA2 trials, which the company says is the largest Phase 3 alopecia areata clinical trial program completed to date.... Read More
The Indiana Uplands region is preparing to launch two competitive funding programs made possible through the region’s Indiana Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative award. The programs, which are a collaboration between Regional Opportunity Initiatives, Radius Indiana, and the Indiana Uplands READI Steering Committee, include the Ready Communities 2.0 program and the Ready Housing program.... Read More
The Clarksville Town Council has begun the process to acquire a historic property with the goal of preserving it for potential reuse. The town plans to use eminent domain to acquire the Colgate site, which once housed the state's first prison and has sat mostly empty since 2008. ... Read More
Indiana’s growing technology ecosystem is garnering attention at London Tech Week, a global summit exploring the power and growing innovation of all things tech.... Read More
Dr. Thankam Thyvalikakath, director of the Regenstrief and IU School of Dentistry Dental Informatics program, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding, which will be allocated over a five-year period, will help build on research that aims to improve communication between dental and medical clinicians.... Read More
Carmel-based security management software company CSA360 says it has closed a $1.3 million round of seed funding. ... Read More
Warsaw-based OrthoPediatrics Corp. says it has entered an agreement to acquire a Canadian orthopedics device manufacturer.... Read More
The city of Muncie has received grant funding from the statewide Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative. The city says the funding, which comes from the East Central Indiana Regional Partnership's $15 million allocation, will support neighborhood infrastructure improvements.... Read More
Governor Eric Holcomb has made several appointments to various state boards and commissions. They include the Board of Trustees of Indiana State University, Early Learning Advisory Committee, and Indiana State Board of Nursing.... Read More
Michigan-based electric vehicle startup, Electric Last Mile Solutions (Nasdaq: ELMS), which aimed to manufacture electric delivery vans in St. Joseph County, is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. ... Read More
U.S. News & World Report has released its annual ranking of the Best Children's Hospitals in the country. While there are no Indiana hospitals in the overall top 10 ranking, Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis is ranked in multiple specialty categories, including urology, cardiology and pulmonology.... Read More
Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. announced Monday an agreement to sell the radio stations in its home market—including longstanding local stalwart WIBC-FM 93.1 —to Maryland-based Urban One, which already owns several local stations.... Read More
Kentucky-based Tempur Sealy International Inc. (NYSE: TPX) is hosting a job fair Tuesday and Wednesday in Crawfordsville. The bedding products manufacturer is looking to fill up to 30 jobs for its recruitment and training center as it prepares for the opening of a 700,000-square-foot foam pouring manufacturing facility.... Read More
