General
11/01/2007
City now can eliminate community eyesore; create new economic development opportunity
11/01/2007
New tool added to City’s crime fighting arsenal with use of innovative DNA collection device
10/18/2007
Alleyways to be repaved between 2nd and Emerson;
portion of Park Grove to receive street improvements
portion of Park Grove to receive street improvements
11/09/2006
10/27/2006
10/23/2006
04/25/2006
“Tear Down This Wall”
10/29/2005
First Two of Eight Projects To Draw Businesses, Residents Would Enhance Roadways
Emerson Avenue
09/21/2006
Officials, residents remember history, start preparing for centennial observation.
09/18/2006
City officials unveiled this "new front door" to the city.
09/16/2006
08/31/2006
04/25/2006
04/25/2006
04/25/2006
Emerson Avenue Project
04/23/2006
04/19/2006
New Gateway Entrance Generates Excitement for Downtown Beech Grove
03/27/2006
$7 Million Project Will Include Demolition of Barrier Often Blamed for Commercial Decline
Greenway
03/02/2010
Greenway. Has been delayed a bit because of new plan to relocate Lick Creek. If we get approval (permit) to relocate the creek, this will be the preferred plan.
11/29/2007
Transportation Enhancement Grant will help fund Phase 1 of the four-mile trail
10/26/2006
Hornets' Net
01/05/2009
Beech Grove, IN – December 3, 2008 – Kicking off the first (mesh) wireless program of its kind offered by a Hoosier community, the City of Beech Grove launched Hornets’ Net today, providing Beech Grove residents, businesses, and visitors with the ability to be connected anywhere within City limits.
07/23/2007
Beech Grove selects Federal Signal
broadband wireless network for its Digital City initiative
broadband wireless network for its Digital City initiative
02/23/2007
Instant Connectivity, Broadband Speeds to Be Available Throughout Growing City
05/04/2006
Main Street
10/30/2006
Beech Grove firm's 3-D animation lets clients show off the ins and outs of products on the Web
10/26/2006
09/06/2006
Beech Grove Mayor Highlights Economic Development In Speech
10/27/2006
Beech Grove Mayor Joe Wright reiterated a theme of "this is how your government is supposed to work" in a positive State of the City address Thursday night.
Beech Grove economy was a highlight of the speech. In his three years in office, Wright said he's erased a million dollar deficit and replaced it with a surplus that he says will reach $800,000 next year. The mayor said there's been millions spent on streets and sewer upgrades, the Beech Grove Fire Department has better equipment, and a major youth recreation area is in the works.
Wright says he’s also proud of a plan that includes creating an inland “port” at the old CSX yard, a facility he says could employ 1,500 workers in a few years.
“We think we can bring really good manufacturing and distribution jobs to this site by the virtue of having rail close by and having every direction of interstate equally close by to the site,” he told WIBC’s Dennis Bergendorf. “There are already users ready to sign up and developers ready to go.”
Sounds of the John Mellencamp song, "Crumbin' Down" then sounded as Wright talked about the effort to tear down the Emerson Avenue wall, which he says is the first step of many to make the area more retail friendly.
"We really had to get that front-door to Main Street built, and Emerson Avenue is the first big project along that way," he explained.
Beech Grove economy was a highlight of the speech. In his three years in office, Wright said he's erased a million dollar deficit and replaced it with a surplus that he says will reach $800,000 next year. The mayor said there's been millions spent on streets and sewer upgrades, the Beech Grove Fire Department has better equipment, and a major youth recreation area is in the works.
Wright says he’s also proud of a plan that includes creating an inland “port” at the old CSX yard, a facility he says could employ 1,500 workers in a few years.
“We think we can bring really good manufacturing and distribution jobs to this site by the virtue of having rail close by and having every direction of interstate equally close by to the site,” he told WIBC’s Dennis Bergendorf. “There are already users ready to sign up and developers ready to go.”
Sounds of the John Mellencamp song, "Crumbin' Down" then sounded as Wright talked about the effort to tear down the Emerson Avenue wall, which he says is the first step of many to make the area more retail friendly.
"We really had to get that front-door to Main Street built, and Emerson Avenue is the first big project along that way," he explained.
By Dennis Bergendorf