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This article appeared in the September 10, 2025 of the Indianapolis Business Journal. An Oakland, Tennessee-based plastic container manufacturer expects to expand to Whitestown and hire 56 workers by the middle of 2026, town officials announced Wednesday. Ring Container Technologies LLC plans to sign a 10-year lease and invest $77 million in an existing 400,576-square-foot … Continue reading
INDIANAPOLIS – Katie Culp has been named to IBJ Media’s Indiana 250, a list of the most influential business leaders across the state of Indiana in multiple industries, for the second consecutive year. Culp was chosen for her many accomplishments in the economic development and real estate field. She currently serves as CEO of KSM […]
Katie Culp has been named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Indiana 250, a list of the most influential business leaders across the state in multiple industries. Culp was selected for her many accomplishments in the economic development and real estate arena. She currently serves as CEO of KSM Location Advisors, Katz, Sapper & Miller’s site […]
This article appeared in the June 22, 2021, issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal. Mark Mitchell is making a homecoming with his hiring as president by KSM Location Advisors, the Indianapolis-based national site-selection firm announced Monday. The Arsenal Tech High School, Indiana University and Anderson University graduate grew up in Indianapolis and worked in the […]
This article originally appeared on IBJ.com. An Indiana Senate committee has approved a controversial bill that would strip most of the zoning control for Marion County away from the city of Indianapolis. Senate Bill 392, authored by Republican Sen. Mike Young of Indianapolis, would give each township in Marion County—except for Center Township—its own board […]
This article originally appeared on IBJ.com. Indiana’s success (or failure) at talent development is key to its future. Legislators and Gov. Eric Holcomb have spent a lot of time addressing this challenge. They’ve created new programs, talked of consolidating agencies, and devoted a lot of money trying to do it better, smarter. We support and […]
This article originally appeared on IBJ.com. A collective sigh of relief could be heard from the losing cities that competed for Amazon’s HQ2 as they watched the frame-by-frame wreckage of the company’s flameout in New York. On an economic development disaster scale of 1 to 10, Jeff Bezos’ decision to pull out of the Empire […]
This article originally appeared on ibj.com. Thank you, Mr. Bezos, not just for the miracle of Amazon Prime but also for the understanding you’ve brought to the outside world about site selection. Amazon’s prominent search for HQ2 (should we now call it HQ2 and HQ3 with a Nashville twist?) has enabled us to finally explain […]
Today the Indianapolis Business Journal unveiled the Fast 25, an annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in Indianapolis. All Fast 25 honorees saw revenue increases of at least 60 percent between 2015 and 2017, and more than half saw 100 percent growth in that same period. KSM Location Advisors congratulates the following clients for […]
This article originally appeared on IBJ.com. This Father’s Day is bittersweet for me. My dad died this spring. His name was Bob Cook. He was a great dad and great person. But this isn’t an article about his life. It’s about what his death taught me about business. As I talked to people at his […]