Traders Point photos on Panoramio

Panoramio.com is google's on-line respository for your digital photos. An amazing feature of panoramio is that it works with google earth to allow the poster to locate the photo on a world map where the photo was taken. So I have placed some of our photos on panoramio. The easiest way to find them is to go to panoramio.com and in the search window type "traders point". You will note that I do not know the photographer of the older photos but I attributed them to ross reller so that you may see all the photos I've posted.

Traders Point in the Cross Hairs

The Traders Point area is in the cross hairs of two major projects announced today; FBI and Medco Health. Duke Realty’s site located at West 79th Street and 465 on Woodland Drive will be a new Indianapolis field office for the FBI. Duke's Anson Project at I-65 and S.R. 334 will be home to a huge automated pharmacy employing 1300. Both projects will bring higher wage jobs to the Traders Point area which should bode well for stablilzing the area’s housing stock. It could also mean increased traffic for the communities’ narrow two lane roads.Plans for the new F.B.I. office call for a complex of three buildings: a three-story office building, an enclosed parking garage and a separate maintenance building, the U.S. General Services Administration announced today. The $38.1 million development would give the FBI 110,000 square feet, a much-needed boost from its 55,000-square-foot space in the Minton-Capehart Federal Building downtown.

Duke Realty’s Anson development was selected by Medco for a new automated pharmacy along I-65 near S.R. 334. Anson won an intense, three-way competition to land Indiana’s biggest economic development project in more than a year: a massive, mail-order pharmacy that will employ 1,300 people.Medco picked the site because of its access to Northside workers, as well as its proximity to I-65, the airport and Downtown Indianapolis. Medco said it would invest $150 million in the new facility, which will employ 1,300 people by 2012, with an average wage of $53,000.

About 120 positions will be pharmacists, with the rest consisting of pharmacy technicians, engineers, information technology specialists and managers.

Eggnog in one basket

Traders Point product eschews sweet stuff to create treat that's perfect for holidays

By Traci Cumbay
Indianapolis Star correspondent
December 12, 2007

Fons Smits is mixing up eggnog in small batches at Traders Point Creamery. The result of his from-scratch mix of organic ingredients is frothy and only mildly sweet.
"We don't make it so sweet, like the factory stuff," said Smits, manager and cheese maker at Traders Point, 9101 Moore Road. He has kept the eggnog simple: "Look at the ingredients. There are only a couple there." None of those are preservatives or artificial color or flavor, he said.
The purist's approach is all well and good, but how's the eggnog taste with whiskey?
"Pretty good," Smits said. "Of course I had to try that. I blended it with about 7 percent whiskey for just a little kick, but someone else said, 'No -- it's gotta be 50-50.' "
Look for the eggnog at the Farm Store at the Zionsville-area creamery or at any stores that carry its products. The eggnog is available in 32-ounce bottles until year's end.