Indiana working to preserve local businesses across ownership changes

The "Keep IN" initiative is meant to get small business owners thinking about how to hand off their companies when they leave, instead of closing them down — and prompt potential successors to consider entrepreneurship through acquisition.

By: Leslie Bonilla Muñiz

Outlets: Indiana Capital Chronicle

Published: August 17, 2026

Words: 2,468

Last Updated: 1 day, 4 hours ago

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The declaration came after one slurp of broth at an upscale Bloomington restaurant: “Not as good as Darn Good Soups” — and loud enough for the rest of the restaurant to hear.

Pat and Jamie East were dining at the next table over, filing away the latest evidence that residents still missed a popular local eatery shuttered years ago.

Then-owner Nels Boerner closed up shop during the uncertain early days of the pandemic rather than …

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