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With pups and personal service, Trust Hardware invests in brick and mortar FREE NEWSLETTERS Nine-year-old yellow Labrador Roscoe accompanies Trust Hardware owner Adam Taylor as he visits his stores. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) In a year in which the pandemic has shifted more and more retail activity online, Indianapolis-based Trust Hardware has found success by embracing a brick-and-mortar approach. The company’s three stores are open 24/7. Each has a resident dog. You can also pick up everything from power tools to local honey to live bait. What you can...

FREE NEWSLETTERS Eastern Star Church Senior Pastor Jeffrey A. Johnson kicks off construction of a $9 million center for children and youth. (Photo courtesy of Eastern Star) A rising ecosystem of affordable homes, small businesses and schools is flourishing around Eastern Star Church’s main campus, as the church embarks on its fourth year of a massive quality-of-life initiative in Arlington Woods. But it’s what’s coming next to the neighborhood that has Rena Jackson really excited: a $9 million kids hub, dubbed the ROCK Community Center for Childr...

Bill to ease approval of wind, solar farms flops, but debate rages on FREE NEWSLETTERS Wildcat Wind Farm in Tipton County. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) A strong coalition of renewable energy developers, major businesses and manufacturers could not muster enough support in the Indiana Senate Tuesday to pass a bill that would have shifted some local control over the siting of wind and solar farms to the state. The Senate’s less comprehensive version of House Bill 1381 technically died after it wasn’t even called for a vote by Sen. Mark Messmer, R-Jasper, ...

Family-owned Turkish, Mediterranean eatery identifies Indy as best place to grow FREE NEWSLETTERS Usta Turkish and Mediterranean Restaurant is slated to open at 6334 Guilford Ave. in Broad Ripple. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) Usta Turkish and Mediterranean Restaurant, a family-owned establishment that previously operated in Bloomington, Illinois, is relocating to Broad Ripple after an extensive search for the best place to resettle and grow. “We’re hoping that business is good here and we’re hoping that we can grow in Indianapolis,” said Matt Demir,...

Indiana scrambles to get COVID vaccines into arms FREE NEWSLETTERS Indiana University Health Nurse Rachael Chisom administers a COVID vaccine to hospital employee Cathy Treen at the IU Health Neuroscience Center on West 15th Street. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) The line stretched nearly three dozen people long, around a corner and down the hall at Indiana University Health’s vaccine clinic near Methodist Hospital. To one side, nurses were administering shots every minute or so at six dosing stations. That’s about 1,000 shots each day, seven days a week,...