Economictr Ends Mid-Year 2015

GREATER LAFAYETTE COMMERCE ECONOMICTR ENDS MID-YEAR 2015

2015 Off to a Brisk Start

rom new manufacturing to top-dollar Street, a $24M residential/commercial venture mixed-use developments, education downtown; and creation of the 980-acre F expansions and an aerospace technology Purdue Research Park Aerospace District. park launch, Greater Lafayette continues Existing industries, too, are expanding, as well making headlines in the economic as medical facilities, the hospitality industry development arena. Topping the list: The and infrastructure improvements. Activity $115M GE Aviation facility, under way; the would best be described as positive and $50M Indiana Manufacturing Institute robust, and especially so because of numerous going up in Purdue Research Park; 101 Main cooperative community initiatives.

IN THIS ISSUE Quick Glance, 2015 Activity Details inside BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY Advanced Manufacturing 5 CAPITAL INVESTMENTS HIGH-TECH/LIFE SCIENCES High-tech/Life Sciences 8 2015 mid-year: more than $400M (2014, New: Quest Global Engineering Co-working Facilities 14 $651.3M; 2013, $1.02B; 2012, $646.1M; New facility: Triclinic Labs built $6M Professional/Services/ 2011, $444.3M) headquarters Warehouse 15 Retail/Hospitality/Tourism 16 Expansion: Spensa Technologies Inc. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY Sustainable Energy 17 Expanded services: MED Institute ADVANCED MANUFACTURING COMMUNITY New: Cutting Edge Industrial Technologies CO-WORKING FACILITIES Initiatives 18 opened; GE Aviation announced additional Media 19 $15M investment and 30 more jobs for Opened: The Bindery Artist’s Studios Medical 20 its under-construction plant, for a total Nonprofit Sector 21 investment of $115M PROFESSIONAL/SERVICES Public Works 22 Expansions: Heartland Automotive, $.5M; Banking: Purdue Federal Credit Union branch Real Estate 24 Oerlikon Fairfield, $.6M; Schooldatebooks, remodel Recognitions 25 $1.1M; Tate & Lyle, $65M Real Estate: Kevin Bol Commercial Group Continuing expansion: Subaru of Indiana EDUCATION opened Automotive P-12 Schools 26 Religious 26 RETAIL/HOSPITALITY/TOURISM Ivy Tech 27 Retailers/restaurants: 29 new spots opened IU School of Medicine - or announced so far in 2015 (54 in 2014; 52 Lafayette 28 total in 2013; 60 in 2012; 41 in 2011) Purdue University 28 Transportation: CityBus added 10 CNG buses Workforce Development 29 to its fleet; opened CNG fueling station Quick Glance | Continued

101 Main St. mixed-use facility

COMMUNITY PUBLIC WORKS MEDICAL Lafayette 2015: $25M in street work, GREATER $6.9M of it in downtown streetscapes; LAFAYETTE New: Evans Eye Care Inc. $2M Long Center for the Performing Arts COMMERCE Under way: Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health renovation; creation of Library Park ECONOMIC Cardiac Rehab and Pulmonary Rehab; IU West Lafayette 2015: $14.8M in street and TR ENDS Health Arnett Hospital Medical Office sidewalk work Building, Joyful Journey Adult Day Service Tippecanoe County 2015: $3.9M in Services: IU Health Arnett adding mental bridge and road work; purchasing former health services; Franciscan St. Elizabeth bank for offices Health expanding its mental health care Tippecanoe County Public Library: Building $2M east side branch NONPROFIT Underway: Clear River Church; REAL ESTATE Engagement Center being created for those with housing needs; Food Finders Food Aerospace: 980-acre Purdue Research Park Bank to open Food Resource Center; Right Aerospace District created, includes airport, Steps Child Development Centers moved Purdue Aviation, Zucrow labs, space for Durgan School site to Creasy Lane company collaborations New name: Willowstone Family Services Mixed Use: 101 Main St., $24M project (for Family Services Inc.) with apartments, bank, retail/restaurant Remodels: Farmhouse Fraternity, Beta Mu Apartments: Regency Springs Apartments Chapter House, Delta Mu Fraternity, Fowler Senior Living/Care: Terraces of House Westminster Village; some completed; Opened: Three residential groups homes, construction continues by Wabash Center Other: Centennial Townhomes; some completed; construction continues

2 Quick Glance | Continued

Home Sales: 1st Q: 392 homes, $61.2M; DEMOGRAPHICS 2nd Q: 719 homes, $10M POPULATION, 2013 New Home Construction: 1st Q: 47 single- Lafayette 70,373 family, 36 multi-family units; 2nd Q: 155 single-family units West Lafayette 42,419 All of Tippecanoe County 180,174 EDUCATION The region About 500,000 K-12: Lafayette School Corp. reopening Oakland Elementary School; Tippecanoe LABOR FORCE School Corp. adding on at two elementary schools; Lafayette Christian School adding Live in Tippecanoe music facility. Indiana Four Star Schools County and work About 100,792 for accountability and high ISTEP scores: Live and work in Cumberland, Happy Hollow and Murdock Tippecanoe County About 95,601 elementary schools; East Tipp Middle Commute out of School and West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High Tippecanoe County About 5,191 School. Commute in to Religious: River City Leadership College Tippecanoe County About 18,414 opening at First Assembly Community Ministries; to offer associate and bachelor’s Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; Indiana Stats, degrees. GREATER www.stats.indiana.edu LAFAYETTE Purdue: $50M Indiana Manufacturing COMMERCE Institute under way at Purdue Research Park; Asian American and Asian Resource ECONOMIC and Cultural Center space opened TR ENDS in Stewart Center; child care center announced.

McCutcheon High School

3 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

Advanced Manufacturing

OVERVIEW KEY INDUSTRIES bout 60 manufacturing and industrial (listed alphabetically) firms operate in Tippecanoe County, ALCOA/LAFAYETTE OPERATIONS employing about 15 percent of the A 775 employees workforce and shipping worldwide. Extruded aluminum products 2014: Opened $100M, 115,000sf aluminum INDUSTRY RANKING BASED ON lithium plant (world’s first full-production EMPLOYMENT facility) Subaru of Indiana Automotive 3,192 ALLOY CUSTOM PRODUCTS INC. Wabash National 2,292 107 employees Caterpillar Large Engine Center 1,432 Tank trailers, pressure vessels Oerlikon Fairfield Drive Systems 950 ANDOVER COILS LLC Alcoa/Lafayette Operations 775 27 employees Lafayette Interior Fashions 572 Electronic coils and transformers Evonik Degussa Corp. BLICHMANN ENGINEERING Tippecanoe Labs 555 GREATER Home brewing equipment LAFAYETTE Tate & Lyle, two plants 500 COMMERCE TRW Commercial Steering 317 CANTEEN CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ECONOMIC Kirby Risk Service Center 317 TR ENDS 10 employees Rea Magnet Wire Corp. 213 Meal, laundry services for correctional Southwire Lafayette Plant 174 facilities Oscar Winski Co. Inc. 141 CARLEX GLASS CO. Industrial Pallet Corp. 120 12 employees Nanshan America 119 Assemble, cure auto window panels Landis + Gyr 115 CATERPILLAR LARGE Alloy Custom Products 107 ENGINE CENTER 1,432 employees voestalpine Rotec 107 Diesel and natural gas engines Heartland Automotive 100 2015: Employment reduced by 250 ProAxis 100 CATERPILLAR LOGISTICS SERVICES INC. Trucking, warehousing

COPPER MOON WORLD COFFEE 30 employees Wholesale coffee 2014: Expanded facility

CUTTING EDGE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC Custom plastic injection molding, vacuum forming and machining

4 Advanced Manufacturing | Continued

DAYTON-PHOENIX GROUP INC. INDUSTRIAL PALLET CORP./ 56 employees AMERICAN FIBERTECH CORP. Braking resistors for freight, off-highway 120 employees vehicles Wooden pallets

ENVIRONMENTAL RECYCLING INC. JESSUP PAPER BOX Recycling construction, manufacturing 18 employees materials Rigid boxes, slip cases, clamshells, game boards, puzzles EVONIK DEGUSSA CORP. TIPPECANOE LABS 2014: Moving from White County; 40,000sf new plant under way. 555 employees Pharmaceutical components KIRBY RISK SERVICE CENTER 317 employees FCA MANUFACTURING Wiring harnesses and subassemblies 36 employees Industrial wood skids and boxes LAFAYETTE INSTRUMENT 56 employees GE AVIATION Polygraph instrumentation and other high- LEAP engine assembly, maintenance, repair, tech detection and decision-making devices overhaul GREATER 2015: $115 million, 150,000sf plant under LAFAYETTE INTERIOR FASHIONS LAFAYETTE construction on 60 acres in Park 350; to hire 572 employees COMMERCE 230; construction slated for completion in Custom window coverings 2015; assembly to begin in 2016; announced ECONOMIC increase in investment and jobs after initial LAFAYETTE PUZZLE FACTORY TR ENDS announcement, for maintenance, repair and 4 employees overhaul of LEAP engines. Jigsaw, sphere and chalkboard puzzle GRAYBAR designer 7 employees LANDIS+GYR Supply chain management, logistic services 115 employees GREAT LAKES SOLUTIONS Electronic meters A CHEMTURA BUSINESS Owned by Japan-based Toshiba Corp. 2015: Facility closed. LIQUID SPRING LLC HEARTLAND AUTOMOTIVE Suspension systems 100 employees M4 SCIENCES CORP. Interior and exterior automotive 10 employees components: instrument panels, doors, head Ultra-precision, electro-mechanical liners and auto body parts modulation device for deep-hole drilling 2015: $.5M dock addition using low-frequency vibration on lathes 2014: $38M addition, to hire 224 more by fall 2015. M.A.I.L. INC. 63 employees HICKSGAS Outsource mailroom; catalog fulfillment Propane distributor MCKINNEY CORP. ICE CREAM SPECIALTIES 18 employees Ice cream novelties Race car chassis and component maker

MILESTONE CONTRACTORS Asphalt plant

5 Advanced Manufacturing | Continued

MULHAUPT’S INC. PACKAGING SYSTEMS OF INDIANA 65 employees 28 employees Custom metal door-frames, contract Shipping products hardware PERRY FOAM PRODUCTS NANSHAN AMERICA ADVANCED 49 employees ALUMINUM TECHNOLOGIES Urethane foam sanding pad products 119 employees; to increase to 200 High-end aluminum extrusions used PROAXIS INC. in mass transportation, automotive, 100 employees distribution, industrial and electrical Sheet metal, structural steel fabricator industries; train-body material for high- speed rail RADIAN RESEARCH 80 employees 2014: Building $50M casting house and office. Watthour test equipment

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP. REA MAGNET WIRE CORP. Rail yard 213 employees Magnet wire OERLIKON FAIRFIELD 2015: Adding a drum storage building. DRIVE SYSTEMS 950 employees ROADWORKS 22 employees GREATER Gears, shafts and drives LAFAYETTE 2015: $.6M built wastewater facility; Stainless steel truck trailer parts COMMERCE employment reduced by 85 ECONOMIC TR ENDS

Proaxis

6 Advanced Manufacturing | Continued

SCHILLI DISTRIBUTION SERVICES TOYOTA TSUSHO AMERICA INC. Warehousing/logistics 50 employees Tire, wheel assembly for Toyota SCHOOL DATEBOOKS 75 employees; 125 seasonally TRW COMMERCIAL STEERING Custom school calendars sold SYSTEMS internationally; onsite bindery 317 employees 2015: $1.1M remodel under way Steering gears Two plants SOUTHWIRE LAFAYETTE PLANT 2014: $13.3M in improvements. (formerly Coleman Cable Inc.) 174 employees VOESTALPINE ROTEC GROUP Wire manufacturing 107 employees Precision steel/aluminum components, STAG CAPITAL PARTNERS pedal box spacer tubes, Warehouse/distribution facilities seat belt/air bag components for auto STEINER ENTERPRISES industry Contract manufacturing WABASH CENTER’S GREENBUSH SUBARU OF INDIANA INDUSTRIES AUTOMOTIVE INC. Contract assembly 3,192 employees GREATER WABASH NATIONAL CORP. LAFAYETTE Subaru Outback and Legacy; Toyota Camry 2,292 employees (through 3rd quarter 2016) COMMERCE Commercial semi-truck, rail, platform Underway: $422M, .5Msf expansion ECONOMIC and liquid tank trailers; dry freight and TR ENDS continues; to add 100 new jobs; in 2014 refrigerated vans; intermodal equipment; made more than 286,000 vehicles; 2015 engineered and composite products production to be about 310,000. 2015: $438M net sales in 1stQ best in SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS company’s history. 2014: Net income of Logistics, trailer parts $70M, up from $46.5M in 2013; shipped 57,350 new trailers in 2014, an increase of SWIFT FUELS LLC 10,550 from 2013. Began 2015 with largest- 9 employees ever number of trailers on order, expect to High-octane, unleaded aviation fuel top 2014 sales.

TATE & LYLE, NORTH AND WEE ENGINEERING INC. SOUTH PLANTS 8 employees 500 employees Vacuum tanks, tank trucks, pumper trucks, Corn starch, syrup, sweeteners custom fabrications 2015: $65 million investment for new OSCAR WINSKI CO. INC. equipment at south plant to expand 141 employees production of Krystar Crystalline Fructose sweetener; environmental efficiencies Scrap metal, steel fabrication at both plants. 2014 completed $90M WORWAG COATINGS LLC expansion (north plant). 30 employees TKO GRAPHIX Industrial powder and liquid coatings 10 employees Refurbish semi-trailers Announced; not yet operating

7 High-Tech | Life-Science Businesses

OVERVIEW AKANOCURE PHARMACEUTICALS Platform to produce large-scale, natural bout 130 high-tech, knowledge-based cancer therapies and life-science businesses operate in Lafayette-West Lafayette, most in start- 2015: Named one of 40 innovative startups A by founder.org up stages and employing fewer than five. Many are capitalizing on discoveries made AKINA INC. at Purdue University and are based in the 6 employees Purdue Research Park or located elsewhere and affiliated with the park. Drug delivery technology ANIMATED DYNAMICS INC. LARGEST HIGH-TECH/LIFE- Life sciences SCIENCE COMPANIES, 2015: Received TechPoint Mira Award for BASED ON EMPLOYMENT technology excellence

BASi 200 ARXAN TECHNOLOGIES Cook Research Inc. 200 26 employees Cook Biotech Inc. 181 Software security Butler America LLC 180 ASEDASCIENCES SSCI, a Division of AMRI 100 Drug discovery

GREATER Endocyte Inc. 88 ASH ACCESS TECHNOLOGY LAFAYETTE Dow AgroSciences 80 Medical devices COMMERCE ACell Inc. 70 ECONOMIC ATLANTIC GREEN TR ENDS TECHNOLOGY INC. Note: Businesses listed alphabetically; those Biofuel, nutrition pharmaceuticals with no employee number listed have fewer than ßfrom algae 5 workers. AXONI 3ID Online manufacturing network Web and app development BASI ABAQUS CENTRAL 200 employees Consulting, engineering product design Pharmaceutical development, contract research, analysis ACELL INC. 70 employees BATCH PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES Tissue-engineered biomaterial for medical Decision support software for batch industry chemical processing

ADVANCED AG SOLUTIONS LLC BIOKORF LLC Technology, consulting for farmers Life sciences

ADVANCED BIOIMAGING BIOVIDRIA INC. SYSTEMS LLC Drug research Technology to detect bacterial growth 2014: Received $1M grant from National Institutes of Health ADVANCED PROCESS COMBINATORICS BUTLER AMERICA LLC 10 employees 180 employees Planning, scheduling, radiation treatment Engineering design planning software

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Dow AgroSciences

CELLAFLORA DESIGN CPRECISELY INC. GREATER App development Imaging software LAFAYETTE CHAO CENTER FOR INDUSTRIAL COVIDEO SYSTEMS COMMERCE PHARMACY AND CONTRACT 9 employees ECONOMIC MANUFACTURING Web-based streaming technology services TR ENDS Affordable manufacturing of trial-sized bathes of prescription drugs CRUISE SOFTWARE Retail industry software products CHYALL PHARMACEUTICAL CONSULTING LLC CURXCEL Advises on optimizing pharmaceuticals’ Drug discovery properties DATTUS CONCORDANCE HEALTH 8 employees Improving medication compliance through Advanced manufacturing software pharmacist/provider partnership DELMAR INFORMATION COOK BIOTECH INC./COOK GROUP TECHNOLOGIES LLC 169 employees 10 employees Tissue engineering research; develops, Custom software development makes wound care/surgical repair products DELPHI DELCO ELECTRONICS COOK RESEARCH INC. SYSTEMS 220 employees Auto electronics design lab Product development, pre-clinical and clinical testing, and regulatory approval DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS INC. services for medical devices Materials design, manufacturing consulting

COPIENT TECHNOLOGIES/ DOW AGROSCIENCES NCR CORP. 80 employees 11 employees Research facility, greenhouse, seed quality Point-of-sale and -purchase hardware, control lab software

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DRUG-FREE THERAPEUTIX LLC GH LLC Life sciences 37 employees Software, Braille textbooks, other learning DUFFEK products for people with sight challenges Develops mobile device applications, games GREENTECH AMERICA INC. E-LANGUAGE LEARNING LLC 5 employees Language software for monitored, Develops and commercializes yeast-based individual lessons cellulosic ethanol technology EITAC SOLUTIONS GROUP HEMOCLEANSE INC. 10 employees Medical technology Products to enhance computer use by those with low vision HNTB LIDAR LAB Optimizes, leverages light detection EN’URGA INC. and ranging data for civil engineering 10 employees applications Optical diagnostic equipment IMAGINESTICS LLC ENDOCYTE INC. 24 employees 88 employees Software connection tools for Drug delivery research manufacturing and life sciences GREATER LAFAYETTE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES LLC IN SPACE LLC COMMERCE Energy 5 employees ECONOMIC EXECUTIVE AUTOMATION LLC Jet propulsion technology development TR ENDS Software development, consulting, training INDEPENDENCE SCIENCE LLC FAVORED GRAIN Consults with schools to provide assistive Seed business vision technologies

FAVORED INC. INDIANA FIBER TECHNOLOGY 7 employees Developing light-weight bio-aggregates, biofuels Milk with nutrients, supplements INDIANA MICROELECTRONICS LLC FLIR SYSTEMS INC. 6 employees 31 employees Designs, makes radio frequency, microwave Mass spectrometer development filters FOUNDOPS INFOCOMM SYSTEMS INC. Software systems Security consulting, research FROSTY LLC INMASS TECHNOLOGIES INC. Website development Soil, bio-remediation FUTAGO INC. INVIVO VENTURES LLC Chemical industry related Forms companies from Purdue research FUTURAGENE INC. findings 14 employees IVDIAGNOSTICS LLC Plant gene discovery Developing cancer diagnostic kits, imaging solutions GENPORT NORTH AMERICA CORP. High-energy electric generators, batteries

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JANUS BIOSYSTEMS METRONET 5 employees Internet access, all fiber optic Lipid materials research 2014: Providing 1g service to residences and businesses. JEWELL LABORATORIES LLC Developing therapeutics for Niemann-Pick MOBILE ENERLYTICS LLC Type C disease and others Energy storage for smart phones 2015: Changed name from Aten MOERAE MATRIX INC. Biotherapeutics Developing drug-tissue scaffold products to KARYOZEN LLC improve soft tissue healing, regeneration Cell sorters, flow cytometers for life MOR-NUCO LLC sciences/healthcare industries 21 employees KINASENSE LLC Develops, commercializes protein Life sciences technology for early cancer detection

L.S. TECHNOLOGY INC. MPLEXUS Software for handheld computers Medical imaging software for Internet transmission LIFE PLUS LLC 26 employees MUDAWAR THERMAL GREATER Toxicology services, testing; medical devices; SYSTEMS INC. LAFAYETTE helps others meet Chinese regulations on Thermal management devices, phase- COMMERCE chemical purchases/sales change systems

ECONOMIC LITE MACHINES CORP. GERALD P. MURPHY CANCER TR ENDS 8 employees FOUNDATION Radio-controlled hobby helicopters; high- 6 employees tech surveillance equipment Nonprofit cancer research institute

LOADOUT TECHNOLOGIES LLC NANO-META TECHNOLOGIES INC. Mobile technology solutions for agriculture, 6 employees industry Nanomaterials

MAGSENSE LIFE SCIENCES NANOSENSE INC. 6 employees Nanotech devices for medical diagnostic, Magnetic particle separation for research, therapeutic applications diagnostics, drug development NANOVIS LLC MED INSTITUTE/COOK GROUP Nanosurfaced implants; nanostructured 22 employees biomaterials Product development, pre-clinical and NEMOCO LLC clinical testing, and regulatory approval Nanoscale electronics services for medical devices 2015: Began offering services outside The NEURO VIGOR LLC Cook Group to external medical device Life sciences companies. NGENX CORP. MEDTRIC LLC Provides technology infrastructure; develops Life sciences hosted IT applications

NOX TECHNOLOGIES Cancer detection research

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Passageways

ODDITSOFT INC. PRIMA SPECIALTY VECTORS LLC Software, consulting Utilizes Purdue-licensed technology

OMEGA MICRO TECHNOLOGIES PURDUE ENTERPRISE CO. Ceramic substrates for electronic devices Technical consulting GREATER ON TARGET LABORATORIES QUANTION TECHNOLOGIES INC. LAFAYETTE 7 employees High-tech using mass spectrometry COMMERCE Cancer research, fluorescent imaging QUEST GLOBAL ECONOMIC 2015: $2M in funding received from TR ENDS Agricultural software National Institutes of Health and Foundry Investment Fund. 2015: Local startup sold to Quest; opened local office OPTICAL THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGIES SAGAMORE-ADAMS LABORATORIES LLC Fluorescent probes for cancer surgery imaging Startup research, development and customized technological product supply PANOPTIC INSIGHT LLC business Consulting on security, innovation SCALE COMPUTING relationships 5 employees; 30, Indianapolis PARSEC SOLUTIONS LLC Enterprise class, scalable grid storage Engineering consulting; multi-phase fluid systems SCHOOLHOUSE PARTNERS LLC Grant writing, grants database PASSAGEWAYS LLC 36 employees SENSIENT FLAVORS AND FRAGRANCES LLC Business web portal management systems for financial and other companies Makes colors, flavors, fragrances for food, beverages, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, PERFINITY BIOSCIENCES INC. imaging systems and others 4 employees SENSORHOUND LLC Sample preparation techniques/tools to 9 employees facilitate mass spectronomy Software development PHLEBOTICS INC. Develops, makes medical devices

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SIMULEX INC. TECMARK INC. 8 employees Emergency response, restoration contractor Simulation products for defense, business management

SORIAN INC. THIRTYSIX SOFTWARE LLC Research services Intuitive data content management solutions SPEAK MODALITIES LLC Software to assist in language skills THREE.COM development Web hosting, internet marketing

SPECTRACODE INC. TIENTA SCIENCES INC. Imaging systems Infrared, mass spectrometry in protein discovery, analysis SPECTRALINE INC. Online quality monitoring TISSUE SOURCE INC. Animal tissue for regenerative medicine SPEECHVIVE INC. Assistive technology TRICLINIC LABS 18 employees SPENSA TECHNOLOGIES Consulting, lab work for solid-state chemical 14 employees development Precision agriculture technologies 2015: Built new $6M, 18,000sf GREATER 2015: Adding a $.6M expansion; received headquarters; to increase employment by 10 LAFAYETTE $1.3M in investment funding and $200,000 COMMERCE from Purdue Foundry Investment Fund. TYMORA ANALYTICAL OPERATIONS Testing cancer drugs’ effectiveness ECONOMIC SPERO ENERGY INC. TR ENDS 5 employees VASC-ALERT Converting chemicals from renewable 8 employees sources to fragrance products Dialysis diagnostic product 2015: Co-founder Ian Kelin named to Forbes VISION ADVANTAGE LLC 30 Under 30 Upcoming Stars. Helps auto dealers increase profits SSCI INC., THE CRYSTALLIZATION VIBRONIX INC. EXPERTS, A DIVISION OF AMRI Life sciences 100 employees Contract research, analytical lab VIVUSNET CORP. 2015: Acquired by Albany Molecular Digital Canvas, multi-media advertising Research Inc. product

STORMFRONT PRODUCTIONS INC. VOCARE INC. 14 employees Telemedicine system Web design, video production, branding WESTECH CONSULTING CO. INC. SYMIC BIOMEDICAL Business consulting with emphasis on 5 employees tools such as lean, Six Sigma and Toyota production system Therapeutics for multiple conditions WINTEK CORP. SYPRIS RESEARCH CENTER 13 employees 5 employees Business-class Internet service provider, Information security for government, direct fiber-based provider aerospace, defense markets

13 CO-WORKING FACILITIES

OVERVIEW MatchBOX Coworking Studio opened its 10,000sf downtown building in 2014; equipment includes laser cutter, 3D printer, everal co-working and shared-space industrial sewing machine; operated by S facilities operate in Greater Lafayette. nonprofit corporation; city of Lafayette and partners funded $1.75M renovation. The Anvil, a nonprofit co-working and At mid-year 2015 memberships totaled business incubator facility opened in 2013 150, working in graphic design, web for Purdue student entrepreneurs; now development, programming, videography, located at 320 North St., owned by Purdue tutoring, writing and more. Memberships Research Foundation. Members now total begin at $360 a year. 80, and 10 companies have launched from the facility, with products such as education Purdue Foundry: In 2015, funded materials, music management, food delivery $200,000 each to FAST BioMedical, system and website development. Facility Indianapolis; Spensa Technologies, West is supported by city of West Lafayette and Lafayette; and Symic Biomedical, San PRF; open to students and community. Francisco, from its $12M investment fund Memberships are $10 a month for students; established in 2014. $30 for others. GREATER The Bindery Artist’s Studio opened LAFAYETTE on the second floor of Lafayette Printing, COMMERCE 511 Ferry St. with 13 studios and shared ECONOMIC classroom, lobby and gallery space. TR ENDS

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The Bindery Artist’s Studio

14 Professional | Services | Warehousing

OVERVIEW RECENT ACTIVITY reater Lafayette is home to numerous FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS professional and service businesses— Old National Bank acquired and in early architects, attorneys, accountants, G 2015 renamed all Lafayette Savings Bank advertising agencies, customer care centers operations. and others. Purdue Federal Credit Union is Major banks include 1st Source, Centier, remodeling Union Street branch. Farmers and Merchants, Farmers State, Fifth Third, First Financial, First Source, Fountain Trust Co., Huntington, JP Morgan OTHER NEW SERVICE BUSINESSES Chase, Kentland, Lafayette Bank and Trust Family Realty Groups Co., Lafayette Community, Old National, Regions, Salin, Security Federal; credit Kevin Bol Commercial Group unions: Purdue Federal Credit Union, TCB Auto Service Industrial Federal Credit Union, Staley Credit Union. WAREHOUSING Largest insurance firms: State Farm Insurance regional office employing 545; Warehouse space is available through All State, American Family, Bundy McNear, various firms, including Apex/Schurman Henriott Group; MBAH Insurance; Tucker Lange, INOK, Superior Structures, Insurance. Warehouse of Lafayette LLC and Winstead. GREATER Underway: LAFAYETTE Lafayette Auto Supply building a new COMMERCE warehouse ECONOMIC Stoddard Warehouse adding a $4.2M TR ENDS facility for Tate & Lyle

Henriott Group

15 Retail | Hospitality | Tourism

OVERVIEW RECENT ACTIVITY argest shopping venues are Tippecanoe LODGING Mall with 840,000sf and more than 100 Courtyard by Marriott, $5M expansion, L stores, including Macy’s, Kohl’s, Sears, added 32 rooms, 15,500sf indoor/outdoor JCPenney, HH Gregg and Dick’s Sporting meeting space. Goods; and Lafayette Pavilions, covering 404,000sf, with Fresh Thyme Farmers Hampton Inn, $1M expansion and Market, TJ Maxx, Cold Stone Creamery, renovation completed. Gordman’s and others. Other venues: TownePlace Suites by Marriott, $600,000 downtown Lafayette, Tippecanoe Court, remodel completed. Lafayette Market Place, Wabash Landing, Whittaker Inn planned near Harrison University Square and Chauncey Village High School, 15-18 rooms, event space for district. 40, owner living onsite; to open in 2016. The community is home to nearly 270 different restaurants with a combined 360 sites. Restaurants range from ethnic RETAIL eateries to national chains, and 28 hotels 15 retailers opened or announced so with 2,430 rooms, from full-service far in 2015: business class (Best Western Lafayette Bella Beige Executive Plaza, Courtyard by Marriott, County Line Emporium GREATER Four Points by Sheraton West Lafayette, LAFAYETTE Holiday Inn City Centre and Purdue Union Family Pantry Club Hotel) to extended stay (Homewood COMMERCE Friendly Market Suites, TownePlace Suites by Mariott and ECONOMIC Candlewood Suites). Genius Phone Repair TR ENDS Downtown Lafayette-West Lafayette has Great Clips, Greenbush been designated an official cultural district Halsema Custom Crafts by Indiana Arts Commission, with three Lam’s Nail and Spa areas: Chauncey Village, Riverfront, Arts and Market. Downtown covers 92 square Las Perlas Tapatia blocks: Main Street, the Levee, Wabash Main Street Books Landing and Chauncey Hill Mall. More than 250 businesses operate in this area, O’Reilly Auto Parts which also is a growing residential hub with Richelle in a Hand Basket about 160 condominiums out of some 600 Right Guys Auto housing units. Sacred Apple Tatoo West Side Tractor

Heisei Japanese Restaurant

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Retail Remodel Restauration Meijer, $5.5M Three O Eight Mike Raisor Mercedes-Benz, addition/ Stacked Pickle remodel Tuesday Morning, move/remodel TOURISM/RECREATION Climb Lafayette opened AUTO DEALERSHIP Elite Air Trampoline Park opened Mike Raisor Volkswagen and Audi, Lafayette Country Club building new pool $5.7M new building under construction, to house, remodeling pro shop, fitness center open 2016 and club Visit Lafayette-West Lafayette reports RESTAURANTS/NIGHTLIFE 3.5 million visitors annually generate more 14 restaurants/nightlife spots opened or than $309 million in direct expenditures; announced so far in 2015: nearly 6,600 employed in tourism-related businesses. Another Broken Egg Information Kiosks: Visit Lafayette-West Bobby T’s Beer, Booze & Barbecue Lafayette partnered with the cities to install Cheddar’s Casual Café 27 information kiosks, with more planned; Cozy Tavern to be updated twice a year. GREATER Crabby Mike’s BBQ LAFAYETTE TRANSPORTATION COMMERCE Digby’s Pub & Patio Greater Lafayette is served by Amtrak ECONOMIC Gigi’s Cupcakes passenger rail, Greyhound bus and in the TR ENDS Heirloom community by CityBus. Honeybaked Ham, downtown News: CityBus added 10 CNG-fueled buses Noodles to its fleet and completed construction of a Pete’s Diner CNG fueling station.

Sustainable Energy

OVERVIEW RECENT ACTIVITY ustainable energy is a focus in the Purdue Energy Park, a $40M Performance county, demonstrated by three wind Services project, proceeding in northwest S turbines installed at CityBus to power Tippecanoe County; building a dozen 432- its facilities, others slated for installation, foot towers, 1.7 megawatts each; Purdue to and a two-year program at Ivy Tech use for opportunity to gather data, develop Community College covering turbines, solar curriculum and offer hands-on training. panels and other systems.

17 COMMUNITY

Initiatives

OVERVIEW Intersection Connection is a collaboration reater Lafayette’s economic of community organizations formed in development, government, education, 2007 to co-locate complementary youth business and industry groups development, higher education, financial G literacy, and health and wellness services on collaborate on a number of community- wide efforts. the Ivy Tech Community College Lafayette campus; a major goal is to build a facility that Advancing Manufacturing: We Have will house a new YMCA, onsite childcare, Jobs Here, We Have Training Here. We Junior Achievement of Greater Lafayette and Have Internships Here. Launched in 2012 an IU Health Arnett clinic. By mid-year 2014, by Greater Lafayette Commerce, Ivy Tech the group had raised $13 million; total goal Corporate College, Region 4 Workforce and timeline not yet announced. Board and WorkOne, among other supporters, this program matches job- www.intersectionconnection.com seekers with employers for direct-hire jobs. Read to Succeed, bornlearning It also offers scholarship-funded training Academies. Launched in 2011 and expanded for those needing it. Through August each year since, Read to Succeed involves 2014, 225 people had earned the Certified Greater Lafayette Commerce, United Way Production Technician credential, with 22 GREATER of Greater Lafayette and the community’s employers participating in the program. three public school corporations, bringing LAFAYETTE The Tippecanoe County-based program COMMERCE some 600 volunteers to all 19 elementary is now serving as a model for four other schools. It received a 2014 Primacy of ECONOMIC communities in Indiana launching similar Place Community Award from Ball State TR ENDS programs. University’s Building Better Communities. www.advancingmanufacturing.com In 2015, Henriott Group won a national community service award for its work on the Amtrak: Save the Hoosier State program, landing $5,000 for the United Way. Campaign. Greater Lafayette Commerce A new effort launched in 2014 at five schools: coordinated a statewide campaign to save bornlearning Academies, a once-a-month the Amtrak Hoosier State line (Indianapolis program for parents and preschoolers, will to Chicago), hosting a summit attended add five more sites in fall 2015. by hundreds and bringing all parties to the discussion; resulted in one-year www.readtosucceedgreaterlafayette.org continuation of daily passenger rail service. Wabash River Enhancement Corp. This That was extended, and efforts are ongoing nonprofit involves local governments and to continue it. others in steps needed to bring development Community of Choice. Greater to the river area. Update of the north-reach Lafayette Commerce is coordinating section of the community’s Two Cities, One multiple activities following study and River master plan for the Lafayette-West implementation of a plan to move the Lafayette urban riverfront is underway and community from good to great. In fall projected to be done in early 2016. Schematic 2012, 125 volunteers on eight teams began design/engineering for the riverside addressing areas that include diversity promenade in the central reach has begun, and inclusion, downtown vitality, the arts, in coordination with the 101 Main Street economic development, transportation and development project in downtown Lafayette; Purdue/community relations. Activities to final design and construction details have fully implement the plan continue. not yet been released. The corporation is planning to coordinate design and www.greaterlafayettecommerce.com engineering work for the entire central reach of the master plan with the upcoming State Street development project in 2015-16. It

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also acquired two more strategic properties, It received a 2014 Primacy of Place bringing the total acquired to 17, valued Community Award from Ball State at more than $6.3M. It also continues to University’s Building Better Communities. improve river water quality through its A new effort also launched at five schools: watershed management program, working Born Learning Academy, a multi-week in three sub-watersheds and implementing program for parents and preschoolers. the latest round of its $550,000 cost-share www.readtosucceedgreaterlafayette.org program to install urban and agricultural water conservation best-management Wabash River Enhancement Corp. This practices. Additional funds are being sought nonprofit involves local governments and to continue this. others in steps needed to bring development www.wabashriver.net to the river area. Recent activities include completion of a byway management plan Regional Economic Growth, Quality for the state-designated River Road Scenic of Life Strategic Plan. Local industry, Byway; completion of a $550,000 state academia and organization leaders are grant project to clean up a key corridor in developing recommendations for a regional downtown Lafayette, readying it for mixed- strategic plan to drive economic growth use development, a trail and green space; and enhance quality of life. Funded by a and work on a corridor-wide looped trail Lilly Endowment grant through the Central system. In 2014, the corporation secured Indiana Corporate Partners Foundation $275,000 in local funding to update the GREATER and convened by The Community north reach section of its two cities, a river LAFAYETTE Foundation of Greater Lafayette, the master plan for the Lafayette-West Lafayette COMMERCE group’s year-long work in 2015 will focus on urban riverfront, which will focus on the a 10-county area—Benton, Carroll, Cass, re-use of the former Lafayette municipal ECONOMIC Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Pulaski, golf course, a project that will being in TR ENDS Tippecanoe, Warren and White counties. spring 2015. The corporation also acquired The final plan is expected by early 2016. two more strategic properties, bringing Read to Succeed. Launched in 2011 and the total to 15, valued at $5.9M, and it expanded each year since, this program continues its work to improve the Wabash involves Greater Lafayette Commerce, River water quality through its watershed United Way of Greater Lafayette and management program, working in three the community’s three public school sub-watersheds and installing more than corporations, bringing volunteers to $1M in urban and agricultural conservation elementary schools. Some 600 volunteers best-management practices. now serve all 19 elementary schools. www.wabashriver.net

Media

OVERVIEW Journal & Courier; a weekly, The Lafayette Leader; the Purdue Exponent, published he community is served by a dozen FM during the academic calendar; Lafayette and AM radio stations, including magazine (quarterly); Just Kidding!, a WBAA, a National Public Radio T monthly newsletter of children’s events; affiliate; television station WLFI-TV (CBS and online, Macaroni Kids-Lafayette. affiliate); a daily Gannett newspaper, the

19 Medical

OVERVIEW medical oncology and hematology, nephrology, neurology, occupational reater Lafayette and the surrounding medicine, ophthalmology, orthopedics, 18 counties are served by several orthopedic spinal surgery, otolaryngology, hospitals, numerous multi-physician G outpatient physical and occupational clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and therapy, outpatient surgical center, pain rehabilitation facilities. management, pediatrics, plastic surgery, Indiana University Health Arnett podiatry, psychology, radiation oncology, operates a $228M, 400,000sf, full-service radiology, urology and wound care. hospital opened in 2008 with 191 beds, five Other healthcare providers are Riggs operating rooms, emergency care (Level III Community Health Center, for the medically trauma center), neonatal intensive care, on- underserved; River Bend Hospital, which demand food service and adjacent helipad. provides mental health care; and Sycamore With an ambulatory surgery center, 15 Springs, an inpatient psychiatric and Greater Lafayette physician offices and four substance abuse treatment hospital. more in adjacent counties, two urgent-care facilities and its full-service hospital, IU Health Arnett offers integrated healthcare. RECENT ACTIVITY It employs more than 250 physicians and providers, some 550 registered nurses and Openings more than 1,260 support staff. IU Health Arnett Cancer Center Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health operates renovation GREATER Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health East, a $192 Evans Eye Care LAFAYETTE million, 410,000sf, full-service hospital COMMERCE opened in 2010. It has 150 private rooms, New hospice care center to open at stand-alone women’s center, eight operating W. 720 Navajo ECONOMIC suites, 27 emergency department bays TR ENDS Under way (Level III trauma center designation in process), 14 neonatal intensive care suites Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health Cardiac and room service dining. St. Elizabeth Rehab and Pulmonary Rehab Central hospital provides medical IU Health Arnett Hospital Medical services, psychiatric care, and inpatient Office Building,$20M, 78,000sf facility; and outpatient rehabilitation services. expect to see patients early 2016 The Franciscan Physician Network offers primary, specialty and mental healthcare, Joyful Journey, An Adult Day Service, primarily from two east-side medical office $1M, 5,000sf facility, to accommodate buildings. The Franciscan St. Elizabeth up to 25 at one time for nonmedical care; Health system employs 85 physicians, 3 nonprofit; opening mid-2015. psychiatrists, 701 registered nurses and 1,782 support staff. Other Unity Healthcare is a comprehensive, IU Health Arnett opening outpatient multi-specialty healthcare provider with mental health clinic, hiring two satellite offices and practitioners throughout psychiatrists; Franciscan St. Elizabeth North Central Indiana. It employs Health adding second and third more than 650, including more than 80 psychiatrists to expand outpatient physicians in some 28 specialty areas. Those behavioral health care. include allergy and asthma, anesthesiology, Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health acquired family medicine, gastroenterology, general 28 acres along new U.S. 231; planned use surgery, immediate care, internal medicine, not yet announced

20 Nonprofit Sector

RECENT ACTIVITY a week, including two evenings and eight weekend hours. 1852 Foundation formed to purchase Fowler House from Tippecanoe County Right Steps Child Development Centers Historical Association for $650,000; moving Durgan School site to Creasy Lane. investing $400,000 and reopening as an United Way of Greater Lafayette topped event venture its 2014 campaign goal of $5M by $719; the A social services engagement center, agency provides funding for 23 local social with services 24/7, is being jointly created service organizations. by local groups for those with housing Wabash Center built and opened three new needs; Lafayette Transitional Housing is residential group homes, to house 3 in each coordinating.. Willowstone Family Services is the Clear River Church building $3M church new name for the former Family Services downtown. Inc., a 50-year-old nonprofit providing The Community Foundation of Greater counseling, alcohol and drug assessment Lafayette, which manages endowments and intervention, homecare services and and funds for individuals and organizations, new-parent resources. disbursed nearly $1.1M in grants to more YWCA renovating Oppenheimer House, than 87 nonprofits in 2014, and established 604 N. Sixth St., for new women’s shelter 24 new endowment funds. ($.9M). First Assembly Community Center to Remodeling GREATER open fall 2016 in former grocery; to offer LAFAYETTE youth ministry, day care and public event Alpha Gamma Delta, $1.4M COMMERCE venue. Beta Mu Chapter House, $3.6M Food Finders Food Bank is remodeling ECONOMIC Delta Mu Chapter Alpha Phi, $600,000 a former church and opening the Food TR ENDS Resource Center, which a teaching kitchen, Farmhouse Fraternity, $6.2M classrooms and food distribution 35 hours

The Fowler House: , 1852 Foundation

21 Public Works

FIBER the Performing Arts; Library Park being created at former Red Crown Mini Museum; Numerous firms offer Internet and fiber Fairgrounds Court, outdoor basketball services to business and homes, ranking courts, opened at Tippecanoe County the community ahead of the pack for Fairgrounds, a six-partner endeavor; city availability (see high-tech listings). received $50,000 state grant for five center city art projects, including a sculpture, RECENT NEWS two alley murals, two art pads for future sculptures and crosswalk décor at 10th TRANSPORTATION and Main riverfront promenade near 101 CityBus added six CNG buses, built $3.3M Main development announced, to open CNG facility; the first public transit in the 2017 or 2018. U.S. to add such a facility; opened 2015; West Lafayette: Happy Hollow Park got a CityBus to save $10M over 10 years. $50,000 upgrade in 2014; another $150,000 in upgrades planned over the next few years. ROADWORK/SEWER WORK/ Tippecanoe County purchasing former WASTEWATER downtown bank for $765,000; investing Lafayette 2015: $25M in street work, $1.2M on remodeling; in late summer 2015 $6.9M of it in downtown streetscapes to move public defenders, court services and probation departments to the 30,000 sf West Lafayette 2015: $14.8M in street and building. GREATER sidewalk work; $5M Todd’s Creek relocation LAFAYETTE project, named Western Gateway district Tippecanoe County Public Library to COMMERCE drainage improvement, for area of future build $2M east side branch in 2015. ECONOMIC development, now in planning stage. TR ENDS Tippecanoe County 2015: $3.9M in ANNEXATION/MASTER PLAN bridge and road work; purchasing former West Lafayette in 2014 annexed 3,977 bank for offices; Hoosier Heartland acres, including Purdue University campus, Corridor Strategic Economic Development extending city limits to US 231 bypass and Plan being developed for newly completed increasing city’s size from 7.62 square miles highway and Indiana 25/Interstate 65 to 13.84 square miles and adding 12,000 interchanges. people to its population. Interstate 65 being widened to six lanes in City of West Lafayette and Purdue an $82.8 million state project from SR 25 to University are partnering to advance the SR 38 in Tippecanoe County beginning mid State Street Redevelopment Project, 2015 and finishing late 2017. transforming State Street from the Wabash River to U.S. 231 into a safe, pedestrian- PARKS/COMMUNITY FACILITIES friendly hub with wider sidewalks, green spaces and bike paths. Construction Lafayette: $3.4M in improvements at planned from spring 2016 through 2018; Riehle Plaza and pedestrian bridge under estimated cost between $60M and $120M. way; $2M renovation of Long Center for

Plans call for reinventing State Street in West Lafayette.

22 Real Estate/Developments

OVERVIEW Market grocery, bookstore, Regions Bank and fast-food restaurants on ground floor. mong local real estate agencies (alphabetical): Kevin Bol Commercial Hayes Triangle (and Seng-Liang A Group, Candor Realty, Castleview, Wang Hall), 516 Northwestern: four- Coldwell Banker Shook, Commercial story, $38.9M building 500 block of Brokers, Fields, Keller Williams, Prudential Northwestern, retail on ground floor; Indiana, ReMax, Cathy Russell, FC Tucker, Purdue College of Engineering space above. Len Wilson, WMD Properties. Under Way/Announced Among top residential builders: Citation Homes, Cornerstone Home Builders, Green 101 Main Street, five-story building to Goose Homes, Kalan Homes, Komark Ltd., have underground parking, 96 luxury Spire Group, Tempest Homes; commercial: apartments, Old National Bank regional Hagerman Construction, Kelly Construction headquarters, restaurant/retail space, of Indiana, Kettelhut Construction, T.L. 124-space parking garage; 35 surface Kincaid, Milestone Contractors, Norfleet parking spaces; $24M project by Deylen Builders, Superior Structures, Tecton Realty Development; to break ground Sept. Construction Management, Tri-Tech 2015; to open first quarter 2017; to connect Construction and Weigand Construction to planned riverfront promenade. Co. Related: Kirby Risk Electrical Supply, 225 Northwestern, 5-story residential/ The Schneider Corp., Scholer Corp., TBIRD commercial, 44 apartments, 5,300sf of Design Services and Tillett Engineering retail on ground floor. GREATER Services. Purdue Research Park Aerospace LAFAYETTE Purdue Research Park of West District, announced in 2015, with plans COMMERCE Lafayette: 200 acres of 725-acre park now for a 980-acre site to encompass Purdue ECONOMIC have infrastructure. Currently, the park has Airport, Lafayette Aviation and Maurice TR ENDS 51 buildings; 1.3Msf is owned or leased J. Zucrow Laboratories; to also include by 160 companies; about 3,200 employees opportunities for aerospace companies work in the park (largest firm is State Farm wanting to collaborate with Purdue to Insurance, 535 employees). The park has build research and development facilities. 350,000sf of incubator space, the largest Site has been named an Indiana Certified university-affiliated business incubation Technology Park by the Indiana Economic complex in the nation. Designated an Development Corp. A $48M Rolls Royce Indiana Certified Technology Park in 2003, facility is a potential development at the site. allowing local option and state income Regal Valley Commons, $30M retail/ taxes from employees to be collected in commercial development, Veterans a development fund. Park has a $1.3B Memorial Parkway, on 29 acres. economic impact on Indiana. Residential/Multifamily Innovatech Development, a privately owned facility, offers clean room, wet lab Centennial Townhomes: Developer John and high-tech manufacturing space for lease Teibel building 12 two-story townhomes; at Purdue Research Park. first four to be completed in 2015; construction continues. RECENT ACTIVITY Cumberland Proper: J.C. Hart, Carmel, developing 266-unit planned development, MIXED-USE COMMERCIAL west end of Cumberland, 19 acres, to DEVELOPMENTS include 24 apartment buildings, 11 Opened duplexes, clubhouse, English Tudor style; $20M; construction under way. 720 Northwestern (joint venture: Campus Acquisitions/Street Capital), five-story, Lakeshore, 53 units of multi-family mixed use, retail/apartment project; two housing planned in 2014. levels of underground parking, 405 spaces; Morris Rentals, $1.2M project under way. apartments: 490 beds; retail: Fresh City

23 Real Estate/Developments | Continued

Regency Springs Apartments (John BUILDING/SALES ACTIVITY Scheumann, Crest Properties), 64-unit Residential sales, all of Tippecanoe apartment building, underground parking, County 4th and Alabama downtown, $5M. 2015: [1st Quarter] 392 properties sold, South Street Station, Salisbury/Littleton, $61.2M, average price $156,122 $5.7M four-story, 46-unit complex under way. [2nd Quarter] 719 properties sold, $120M, average price $166,898 2014: 2,092 properties sold, $327.5M; SENIOR LIVING average price $155,952 Aster Place: $24.6M facility by American 2013: 2,148 properties sold, $322.1M; Senior Communities opened on 9.5 acres in average price $149,953 Cascada Park; 115 units plus 18 independent living apartments; assisted living 2012: 1,923 properties sold, $283.5M; apartments, memory care, garden homes. average price $147,441 Home Place Senior Apartments, in 2011: 1,627 properties sold, $219.6M; former medical office building, 40 units, average price $134,997 3-stories, in planning stage. Single-family Building permits, all of The Springs at Lafayette (Mainstreet Tippecanoe County Properties of Carmel, operated by Trilogy 2015: [1st and 2nd Quarters] 202 Health Services), opened $14M assisted GREATER 2014: 468 living facility, former Home Hospital site; LAFAYETTE 2013: 454 COMMERCE 100 beds, single story, 68,000sf, employing 120. Facility includes café, hair salon, 2012: 496 ECONOMIC theatre, courtyard, pedestrian/bike trail to TR ENDS tie to Columbian Park. 2011: 462 Westminster Village investing $35M in 2010: 381 new health/fitness center and 54 residences Multi-family building permits, all of (in three buildings) called Terraces at Tippecanoe County Westminster; units 1,655sf to 2095sf each. 2015: [1st and 2nd Quarters] 36 units 2014: 452 units, 8 sites 2013: 433 units, 5 sites 2012: 175 units, 3 sites 2011: 395 units, 4 main sites, others infill

New Chauncey neighborhood

24 Recognitions

Unless otherwise noted, recognitions are for 2014 Lafayette MSA, which includes Benton, Carroll BUSINESS and Tippecanoe counties. No. 9, Forbes Best Small Places for Business and Careers out of 184 cities on economic 2015 and quality-of-life indicators, job growth GREATER LAFAYETTE trends, cost of living (11.5 percent below No. 8, AARP Small City Livability Index national average) and cost of operating (West Lafayette) business. In Top 10 Exports Leader listing, Business No. 35, Leading Location by Area Facilities Magazine Development Magazine for economic and workforce indicators. No. 11, Computer Science Degree Hub, 50 Great Cities for Studying Technology and Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette Computers named No. 1 Incubator of the Year by National Business Incubation Association Named to Top 15 in CiCi 10th Annual Community Impact investments by Trade & Industry Development for GE Aviation’s INDIANA construction No. 7, Area Development Magazine, in Top No. 32, US News & World Report, Top 50 10 States for Doing Business. GREATER least expensive places for retirees to live No. 8, Tax Foundation, for top state for tax LAFAYETTE climate. COMMERCE INDIANA ECONOMIC “A” Grade for manufacturing and logistics TR ENDS health, Conexus Report Card CHICAGO LAFAYETTE CNBC, America’s Top States for Business: INDIANAPOLIS No. 1, cost of doing business; No. 4, cost of living; No. 8, economy; No. 9 friendliness; No. 13 for all factors Best of the Midwest, Chief Executive Officer magazine

Greater Lafayette Commerce

25 EDUCATION

Sunnyside Intermediate School

P-12 Schools GREATER LAFAYETTE COMMERCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2015 to reopen Oakland as an elementary school and Oakland High School to move Lafayette School Corp. 11 schools, ECONOMIC to former Washington Elementary ($2M 7,036 students; 1 Four Star school in 2015 TR ENDS investment to remodel the two locations). (Murdock Elementary) Tippecanoe School Corp. renovating and Tippecanoe School Corp. 18 schools, reopening former Battle Ground Middle 11,844 students; 1 Four Star school in 2015 School, $5.8M; remodeling Burnett Creek (East Tipp Middle) and Woodland elementary schools, $10M West Lafayette Community School each. Corp. 3 schools, 2,138 students; 3 Four West Lafayette Cumberland Elementary, Star schools in 2015 (Cumberland, Happy $.4M building project Hollow, West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High. Lafayette Christian School, with 318 students, is building a music facility RECENT ACTIVITY addition, $.6M Lafayette School Corp. remodeling three elementary schools’ kitchens, $1.2M; in fall

Religious

River City Leadership College to open University; offering associate of arts in Bible in August at First Assembly Community and bachelor of arts in church leadership; Ministries; to be an extension site onsite housing available. for Southwestern Assemblies of God

26 Ivy Tech Community College - Lafayette

OVERVIEW offers specialized workforce training and continuing professional education. ome 12,390 students enrolled in Associate degree graduates in any of Ivy Tech Community College Lafayette 10 programs can transfer as a junior to Region (Lafayette, Crawfordsville, S four-year institutions; others are being Frankfort and Monticello) in 2014-15, with developed. another 5,800 from other regions taking distance education courses that originate in Lafayette. The public, open-access RECENT ACTIVITY college, which employs nearly 700, has St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, now seven buildings on 51 acres in Lafayette. offering 4-year bachelor’s courses at Ivy Tech Its facilities include a joint-use college/ for those who have earned associate degree public library. It also operates a downtown in business or accounting; evening classes Lafayette satellite and several regional sites. beginning fall 2014. The college offers courses in more than 80 Purdue University reserving five spaces programs of study and awards associate annually in civil or environmental and degrees and technical certificates. Study ecological engineering for Ivy Tech areas include biotechnology, advanced associate’s graduates in pre-engineering GREATER manufacturing, agribusiness, alternative with 3.0 or better GPA in science, math and LAFAYETTE fuels technology, liberal arts, elementary engineering. COMMERCE education, computer information technology, surgical technology, criminal Aviation program developed to support the ECONOMIC justice and nursing. The college also new GE Aviation facility. TR ENDS

Ivy Tech Community College

27 Indiana University School of Medicine - Lafayette

OVERVIEW RECENT NEWS ndiana University School of Medicine – The school moved into a new facility fall Lafayette operates on the Purdue 2014, occupying part of the Lyles-Porter I University campus, offering a full four-year Hall at Purdue. program and admitting 16 first-year medical students each fall. Its vision for medical education embraces quality care and accessibility for all.

Purdue University

OVERVIEW RECENT ACTIVITY GREATER LAFAYETTE est Lafayette campus enrollment: Purdue Research Park Aerospace COMMERCE Fall 2014, 38,770 students, 9,080 District announced, 980-acre project W of them international students owned by Purdue Research Park to include ECONOMIC (of those, 7,739 from Asian countries). Purdue Airport, Zucrow Labs, Purdue TR ENDS Employed: 15,612 faculty and staff, including Aviation (formerly Lafayette Aviation) more than 1,880 tenured and tenure-track and space for aerospace companies to faculty, and 187 distinguished and named collaborate with Purdue; to operate as an faculty. Degrees offered in the schools additional Purdue Research Park. and colleges of agriculture, education, Asian American and Asian Resource and engineering, health and human sciences, Cultural Center space opened in Stewart nursing, liberal arts, management, pharmacy Center. and pharmaceutical sciences, science, technology and veterinary medicine. About 2014 First Year Class had highest test 6,800 earn undergraduate degrees annually; scores and GPAs of any incoming class. 1,600, master’s; and 650, doctorates. Retention: 2014 achieved 93 percent Facilities: Nearly 400 buildings retention rate. encompassing 12M sf on approximately Purdue Moves being implemented, a 18,000 acres, including farm land. 10-point effort launched in 2013 to include Sponsored research funding: $390M, enhancements in STEM, research, more 2013-2014 ($320.2M, 2012-13; $354M, on-campus housing, new education models, 2011-12; $419.6M, 2010-2011; $438M, and affordability. 2009-10); among hundreds of specialized centers are collaborative manufacturing, management of manufacturing enterprises, PATENTS pharmaceutical processing research, Technology licenses: In 2014, 24 startups computer integrated good manufacturing were founded throughout the country and software engineering research. based on innovation from Purdue research; University’s economic impact in the state is Purdue Research Foundation announced. more than $4.59B annually. Other activity included: 272 invention disclosures, 120 deals finalized, 100 issued U.S. patents, 471 global patent applications filed and royalty income of $6.08 million.

28 PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Continued

NEW FACILITIES UNDER WAY COMPLETED 2015 $90M Honors College and Residences, $13M Boilermaker Softball Stadium 40,000sf of academic space, more than 800 beds, at Russell and Third, to open in 2016. NEW FACILITIES/ $79M Wilmeth Active Learning Center RENOVATIONS COMPLETED (library and classrooms), 164,000sf, to open 2014 summer 2017. From 2004 to 2014, more than $1B in new $70M College of Engineering strategic construction of more than 50 buildings growth initiative multi-building engineering completed. renovation; first phase to be completed by fall 2015. $38M, 111,700sf Lyles-Porter Hall opened fall 2014 in Life and Health Sciences Park, $50 Indiana Manufacturing Institute in for speech, language and hearing sciences Purdue Research Park, 62,000sf, research and other health programs. of composite materials manufacturing with leased space available, to open mid-2016. $38.9M, 147,000sf Hayes Triangle (and Seng-Liang Wang Hall) multi-use facility, $10M Agronomy Center Phenotyping and 516 Northwestern Ave. includes Purdue Seed Processing Laboratory. College of Engineering facilities and retail. $37.4M, 304-bed, 124,100sf Third Street PLANNED GREATER Suites with restaurant and convenience $60M Agricultural and Life Sciences Facility. store. LAFAYETTE $54M Flex Lab Facility. COMMERCE $29.5M, 81,500sf Krach Leadership Center. $50M animal sciences facility. ECONOMIC $28.7M, 65,300sf drug discovery facility in TR ENDS Life and Health Sciences Park. $18.5M Bechtel Innovation Design Center. $16M, 850-space Harrison Street parking $11M airport runway rehab. garage attached to Lyles-Porter Hall. $8.2M Zucrow Lab renovation/addition. $15.9M, 28,600sf Multidisciplinary Cancer New child care center. Research Facility, addition to Bindley Bioscience Center. $7.6M Ralph and Bettye Bailey Hall, 15,300sf.

Ralph and Bettye Bailey Hall

29 Workforce Development

OVERVIEW RECENT ACTIVITY everal other educators offer programs Lafayette Adult Resource Academy is for adults. Lafayette Adult Resource serving 1,700 students in the 2014/2015 S Academy provides basic skills training academic year. and study for the Test for Assessing Tricoci University of Beauty is moving Secondary Completion; Excel Center to a new location on Columbia. provides adult high school education. On and offsite workforce training is offered Region 4 Workforce Board received by Ivy Tech. And nationally accredited, a $7.6 million U.S. Department of career-focused Harrison College offers nine Labor grant for a four-year Rapid business and four health science programs, Reemployment for Advanced awarding certificates, associate and Manufacturing Positions (RAMP) bachelor’s degrees. Leadership Lafayette program that begins in 2015. Ivy provides an annual community leadership Tech Community College and Purdue program. University will train 800 unemployed people for manufacturing jobs; participants will receive benefits during training.

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