The Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority Board of Directors has approved another re-use of the Air Cargo Hub at Fort Wayne International Airport. C&J Services and Supplies Inc. will occupy the 33,500 square-foot maintenance building of the cargo hub facility beginning April 1, 2012.
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Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed a statewide smoking ban.
Bars and casinos are exempt, though smoking will be banned at charity gaming events. People will still be able to light up at cigar/hookah bars, retail tobacco stores and nonprofit private clubs and fraternal organizations, though not at mental health and nursing facilities. And home-based businesses are exempt, unless people who don’t live in the home work there.
After the signing, the Indiana Campaign for Smokefree Air praised the law as “the first step toward protecting its residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.”
But Danielle Patterson, co-chair of the campaign, said in a statement that Indiana “still has a long way to go. . . . Workers in bars, casinos, some restaurants and several other establishments will be among the tens of thousands of Hoosiers who will not be covered by the new law.”
The Indianapolis Airport Authority is unexpectedly looking for a new CEO.
The Fort Wayne airport is changing leadership as well.
The mild winter has led to big savings for Northwest Indiana communities.
Work has begun on the mysterious “Project Tango” at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville. It’s believed to be a DC for Amazon.com.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. has expressed interest in the executive director’s position at NIRPC.
Good workers are hard to find, say manufacturers in Northeast Indiana.
The Fort Wayne-Allen County Development Alliance says companies promised to create 1,600 jobs in the region in 2011.
A company being cited as an example of right-to-work’s impact says the new law had nothing to do with its decision to expand.
The Evansville airport is adding flights.
Allison Transmission raised $600 million in its IPO.
Counter-proposals are in the works to save the Warthogs in Fort Wayne.
John Swanson, executive director of the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission is stepping down.
Muncie will provide $1.2 million to help turn an old hotel into senior housing.
New data indicates that Indiana created more jobs in 2011 than initially believed.
Gov. Mitch Daniels is saying Indiana’s jobs picture was much better last year than previously thought.
Daniels said Monday that the state is set to release new data showing that 43,000 jobs were added in the private sector last year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics originally stated Indiana added 27,000 jobs.
Daniels said the new numbers for 2011 will show Indiana “outperformed the country significantly” in job creation. Still, the state’s unemployment rate has hovered around 9 percent for the last few months while the national rate has crept down to 8.3 percent.
An Ohio company that will manage General Mills’ new distribution center in Fort Wayne is planning to hire about 60 workers.
NIPSCO has plans for $5 billion in expansion projects over the next decade.
The cost of the runway expansion project at the Gary Chicago International Airport has risen by $13 million.
The Indianapolis Colts will release quarterback Peyton Manning today.
Peyton Manning forever will be thought of around Indianapolis as No. 18, the quarterback who led the Indianapolis Colts to an NFL championship.
He’ll be remembered, too, for his record four MVP awards, his 50,000 yards passing and his 200 consecutive starts. Most of all, Manning will be the guy in the horseshoe helmet who turned around a franchise and transformed a basketball-loving city into a football hotbed that hosted the Super Bowl.
Despite all of that and barring a last-minute change of heart, the Colts planned to release the 35-year-old Manning rather than pay him a $28 million bonus. The Colts scheduled a noon news conference for Wednesday without saying why, but a person with knowledge of the decision said the team was preparing to announce it will part ways with its QB, who missed all of last season after a series of operations on his neck.
Proposed changes to the 122nd Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne would cost about 150 jobs.
The Indianapolis Regional Transportation Council has given the green light to the $210 million Central Indiana Regional Bikeways Plan.
Kentucky and Indiana have agreed on a financing plan for the Ohio River Bridges project.
Frequent commuters will pay $1 every time they cross designated bridges over the Ohio River after a plan to pay for the construction of an east-end bridge, a downtown bridge and to reconstruct Spaghetti Junction was agreed to Monday.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear signed a memorandum of agreement Monday morning to finance the construction of the $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges Project. The agreement solidified the plan that had been previously presented by project planners to split the project’s financing between the two states, each being responsible for half of the project cost.
Indiana tax revenues fell short of projections for the second straight month.
Navistar is shifting RV production from an Oregon plant to Indiana.
GM has announced that it will build bi-fuel trucks that can run on both gasoline and compressed natural gas in Fort Wayne.
Purdue University’s Manufacturing Extension Program has created a Made in Indiana program to spotlight Indiana manufacturers.
Golden Engineering in Wayne County is expanding, investing more than $700,000 and creating two jobs.
The Fort Wayne Black Chamber of Commerce is set to debut today.
A Warsaw-based financial services firm is opening a fifth office in Fort Wayne.
Federal stimulus funds helped more than 80 new businesses get started in Lake and Porter counties.
The commercial building business in Northwest Indiana is showing signs of revival.
Touché Lighting Controls, a new product line of ESI Ventures, is planning to expand its operations at its existing facility in Fort Wayne. The companys has developed an automated lighting control system targeted at new and retrofitted commercial construction. The focus of this system is energy savings, ease of installation and integration.
In 2012, Touché Controls will be expanding its line to integrate security, heating/ventilation, personnel access, and audio/video control lines. The company will invest $1.5 million over the next three years to provide a level of integrated automation that is not currently available in the marketplace.
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Steel Dynamics, Inc. (Fort Wayne) today announced that its board of directors has approved an expansion of its Engineered Bar Products Division located in Pittsboro, Indiana. The expansion is intended to both increase the steel mill’s capacity to produce special-bar-quality (SBQ) steel bars and to expand the mill’s product offerings of high-quality small-diameter SBQ bars.
The expansion is expected to increase the mill’s overall annual production capacity from 625,000 tons to 950,000 tons, a 52 percent increase. Subject to the anticipated receipt of necessary permits, which the company expects to be forthcoming in short order, and the receipt of state and local government support, the project is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2013 and to cost approximately $76 million.
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