HAMMOND – The South Shore Convention and Visitor Authority will hold a Tourism Tech Summit from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the Indiana Welcome Center. The summit will provide information on marketing through social media technology. Participants from support organizations, private industry, academic institutions and IT groups are invited. Partners in […]
HAMMOND – Brian Harris, business development manager with Amex Nooter LLC of Hammond, will take part in The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel: 101 program, hosted by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology in St. Louis. “The industry we take part in and complete jobs for is primarily steel,” said Harris. “It is
Contractors do their work nearly anonymously, so when their colleagues and the industry in which they work recognize them for the work they have done, we at Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly are pleased to give them a well-deserved pat on the back. Here are some of the awards presented to area contractors in the last
CROWN POINT – Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point has announced it is adding an open magnetic resonance imaging system which will be the only one of its kind in Lake and Porter counties. Installation of the Oasis, the Hitachi company’s open MRI, will begin soon at St. Anthony’s Outpatient Health Complex. Unlike closed units, the
SOUTH BEND – Regina Emberton of C.B. Richard Ellis/Bradley has been accepted into the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Emberton is vice president of brokerage services at CBRE and recently became a member of the leading professional commercial and industrial real estate association. “Regina’s presence in the commercial real estate industry qualified her for
MICHIGAN CITY – Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital has opened its 38,000-square-foot LifeWorks Business Park on the south side of Michigan City. The medical facility offers on-site medical services and is part of a larger project planned by owner Holladay Properties. Other additions include retailers, a restaurant, pharmaceutical services and other medical offices. LifeWorks provides
Cities pursue creative efforts for revitalization. by Rick A. Richards Northwest Indiana downtowns were once retail hubs. But with the development of regional shopping malls and strip shopping centers over the past two generations, downtowns across the region have changed. Left behind are empty storefronts and vacant parking lots. In recent years, however, those downtown
MUNSTER – CFS Bancorp Inc., the parent company for Citizens Financial Bank, has declared a quarterly dividend of 1 cent per share of common stock. The dividend will paid on Oct. 28 to shareholders of record on Oct. 7. The dividend is unchanged from the second quarter. Citizens Financial Bank has assets of more than
