Greater Lafayette Commerce

Greater Lafayette Commerce is your resource for professional networking, economic expansion and revitalization business assistance, and community development.

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Camflo Heating & Cooling still calls Flora home, but its business has been moving west for years. Lafayette became its largest market before the company had an address here.

Now, Camflo has opened its first Lafayette location.
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Sharon Owens spent 26 years driving across three states to find a furnace hot enough to teach her glassblowing. This year, the studio she built in Lafayette so no one else would have to make that drive turns 25.

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The region's largest business event returns to the Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds Sept. 16. Over 100 local businesses, breakout sessions, food trucks and giveaways, all under one roof. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., free, no registration required.

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Purdue University hired Amelia Earhart in 1935 to counsel women students. Ninety years later, Greater Lafayette has raised $50,000 — matched dollar for dollar by the state, $100,000 total — to build a festival around her memory.

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Flora has called itself the Garden Spot of Indiana since the 1870s. For 50+ years, a state sewer ban capped how much the town could grow. This month, officials broke ground on Carriage Estates — a $28.9M, 28-lot subdivision. Read more: https://t.co/dPu5jd1yYT

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Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished, Purdue Research Foundation is searching for her plane. In Lafayette, a new mural and festival are tackling a smaller piece of the same story — with their own deadline.
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📸: Dave Wegiel

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Dustin Johnson was 23 when he and his brother Clint inherited their father's transmission shop with no real plan for how to run it. Two decades later, that shop has been named our Small Business of the Month.

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The U.S. could be short 1.9 million manufacturing workers by 2033. Greater Lafayette's response has grown fivefold in eight years, and it starts at age six.

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Two Lafayette barbers are joining forces. On June 27, Ivan Castro (Executive Cutz) and Jay Soto (Jsmooth Studio) co-host The Executive Connect, a free, family-friendly networking event, 4–8 p.m. More 👉 https://t.co/oLLb1Hh0Ho

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When Indiana cut public broadcasting funding without warning and Congress clawed back a billion dollars more, small stations had a choice: close, or get creative. Lakeshore Public Media and WBAA Public Radio chose creative. 🎙️

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A billion-dollar research district. Twenty years of labs, office towers, and apartment complexes. Last week, they cut the ribbon on a playground. 👉 https://t.co/XmOo6SDigx

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What makes young talent stay in a community and workplace? Join our Lunch & Learn, where employers and interns will have a candid conversation about what attracts early-career talent and what keeps them here. Register: https://t.co/e8Vr0oX4QW

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The City of Lafayette celebrated 200 years on the Wabash in 2025. The sculpture the city commissioned to mark the occasion wasn't quite ready in time. On June 9, it was. On a stormy Tuesday evening in downtown Lafayette, the city dedicated it.

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As Indiana's population of adults 65 and older barrels toward a 73% surge, a Lafayette nonprofit called Tippecanoe Senior Center just merged with a volunteer program that pairs aging adults with people willing to give them an hour or two a week.

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In 2007, 1st Source Bank entered Tippecanoe County with no loans and no deposits. Nearly two decades later, it just broke ground on its fourth local branch. 💵 Find out more: https://t.co/uvqO2moxEQ

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Three major health systems are pouring more than $400 million into West Lafayette, a city that has never had a hospital. The building boom reflects a broader bet on one of Indiana's fastest-growing markets.

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Indiana has one of the worst maternal death rates in the developed world. One West Lafayette woman spent four years doing something about it. IU Health just gave her $720,000 to keep going.

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Congrats to Katherine of St. Anthony Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Lafayette, IN for winning our Butterbeer Potions Kit giveaway at the Harry Potter-themed @GLCommerce Golf Outing @coyotegolfclub ! ⚡

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For the third straight month, the U.S. labor market came in stronger than expected. Indiana is running ahead of the national average, and Tippecanoe County's 2.4% unemployment rate puts Greater Lafayette in rare company.

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Here, there is courthouse that doubles as an art museum, a one-day art fair that has outlasted most of the galleries in the state and a committee that has been writing checks to high school art teachers for 50 years. Tomorrow, they do it again.

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