New Road Expected to Raise Economic Tide on Ohio River
January 20, 2016 - Transportation leaders say there’s an “infrastructure bonanza” on the banks of the Ohio River in southeast Indiana—a project involving two bridges, one river port, a massive available industrial site and a specially-designed road that will connect the critical parts. State and local business partners recently broke ground on...

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Natural foods company leaving Chicago for Southern Indiana
January 8, 2016 - A natural foods company, and subsidiary of Mondelez International (NASDAQ: MDLZ), has announced that it's moving from the Chicago area to Jeffersonville, Indiana's River Ridge Commerce Center. Enjoy Life Foods plans to shut down its facility in Schiller Park by this fall, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Enjoy LIfe Foods manufactures...

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Possible land sale could lead to Southern Indiana’s largest warehouse yet
November 16, 2015 - A building larger than the nearly 1 million-square-foot Amazon.com Inc.fulfillment center could be coming to the 6,000-acre River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville. At its regular monthly meeting on Monday evening, the River Ridge Development Authority's board of directors, which manages the operations of the business park, authorized a...

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Army transfers high-value land to the River Ridge Commerce Center
October 12, 2015 - JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (WDRB) -- The long-standing disagreement over land in Jeffersonville has finally come to an end after several years of negotiations over environmental issues. "It just took time to come to an agreement and a compromise," said Colonel Christopher Beck of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville...

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America Place closes on more land in Southern Indiana amid property dispute
September 30, 2015 - America Place LLC, a Jeffersonville-based development company, has closed on 11 more acres at River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, but the sale is being questioned by another development group that offered more money for the land. America Place at River Ridge LLC finalized the purchase of 11.19 acres from the River...

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U.S. Army transferring more than 800 acres to River Ridge authority
September 29, 2015 - The U.S. Army has retained 1,132 acres of the 6,000 acres that eventually will be the extent of River Ridge Commerce Center. The Southern Indiana business park is being developed on the site of a former Army ammunition plant. As of Tuesday, the Army's ownership share was drastically reduced. The River...

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Phase 1 of River Ridge Gateway project approved at nearly $13 million
September 22, 2015 - The River Ridge Development Authority, which manages the 6,000-acre River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, has a vision in mind of an entrance that will serve as the "gateway" into Indiana from a new Interstate 265 interchange. The I-265 interchange is being constructed alongside a new East End Bridge that will...

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The Future is River Ridge
September 18, 2015 - Economic development leaders in Southern Indiana make no bones about their vision for River Ridge Commerce Center, the massive former U.S. Army facility turned industrial park.With 6,000 acres overall — most of it still undeveloped — and soon-to-be stellar access via the new East End bridge, they believe it will become...

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River Ridge’s Big Three
September 18, 2015 - A great deal of River Ridge Commerce Center’s success thus far could be attributed to three local developers. According to River Ridge executive director Jerry Acy, 665 of the park’s 6,000 acres have been purchased for development, and more than half of those acres belong to three local development groups:...

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River Ridge’s Triple Threat: J. Mark Robinson
August 28, 2015 - For a man who holds degrees in law, engineering and theology, J. Mark Robinson carries himself with an understated modesty. The 68-year-old Indiana native wears unassuming suits and spends his weekdays in a plain office in New Albany where he plies his trade by day as a “poverty lawyer” serving...

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