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Investments in public safety, cleanliness, and outreach are coming to the Mile Square.

It’s no secret that downtown has a skyline-sized problem brought on by the pandemic. But a historic slate of development is underway that may revitalize the city’s core to its Super Bowl–era glory. Here, a tour of what’s working, what’s not, and what remains to be seen.

Fabio de la Cruz has promised to transform long-suffering Lafayette Square Mall with a $200 million investment, most of it his own money. His name may not be real, but his skeptics are.

For former USA Track & Field photographer Audra Stam, vegan baking is as technical as camerawork.

The search continues.

“It’s not just believing in it as a human and for humanity and for morality.”

What $122 million in naming rights buys you.

Indianapolis was once proclaimed the “world’s tanning-bed capital.”

Eli Lilly and Company has spent three decades and $3 billion in an Ahab-like quest to develop the world’s first effective drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

Overlooked in the indignation over job exportation—which thrashed between sincere and synthetic—was the Hoosier State’s steadily growing reliance on job importation.

Anderson says she wants to focus on the future, one that now looks glamorous. But her liabilities, brought on by years of financial missteps, keep her tethered to the past—and to Central Indiana.

Although she is one of 238,000 truckers living in Indiana, a state with more drivers than almost any other, Charci is easy to pick out at a crowded truck stop. Only 5 percent of drivers are women.

It puts ex-cons in jobs and off the street, but the nonprofit has funding issues that might undermine its mission.

We’ve got the scoop on Ruckus, a fashion hub for local designers, set to open next year on the near-east side.

Local shopportunities benefiting from Deflategate 2015. Have you seen more out there? Tell us.