When Cook Medical and Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana announced their partnership to build the facility in November 2020, they set a goal to have all contractors be minority-owned.

Ethylene oxide is used to sterilize medical equipment, spices, and other things -- and is responsible for higher lifetime cancer risks near industrial facilities around the country. But many residents living near these plants weren’t told about the risks.

Indy Fresh Market will be owned by two men from the Arlington Woods neighborhood through a partnership with the medical manufacturer.

Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana will partner with Conexsus, an organization that helps Indiana businesses prepare and employ advanced manufacturing and logistics opportunities.

Following a growing national trend, Bloomington-based medical devices company Cook Medical and Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana partnered to select an Indianapolis neighborhood with high economic need to house a new manufacturing facility.

Bloomington, Indiana-based Cook Medical is investing $2.5 million to build a grocery store in the Indianapolis neighborhood where it is planning to open a new manufacturing facility. The company plans to let two local residents own and operate the store once it opens next year.

The store will be at 38th Street and Sheridan Avenue, near to where several groceries have shut down leaving nearby neighborhoods with limited access to food options.

A new partnership aims to offer more opportunities in a long-disadvantaged Indianapolis neighborhood adding jobs, education and other services.

A group effort allowed Girl Scouts in south central Indiana to connect with women engineers and try their own mini-projects this past weekend.

The 2.3 percent tax helps offset costs of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, but life sciences companies have fought to repeal it for three years.