Duke Energy Indiana added three properties to its 2026 Site Readiness Program: up to 68 acres in Taylorsville, Bartholomew County; the I-74 Alig Site in St. Leon, Dearborn County; and 87 acres of I-69 frontage in Bloomington, Monroe County. Duke says the program has now prepared 53 properties and landed 32 projects worth close to $15 billion.

The Taylorsville site sits next to Irresistible Foods Group's Grillo's Pickles and King's Hawaiian plants, and IFG says it is building in phases. That makes IFG itself the more likely first tenant on that parcel, not a new employer entering the market. Heavy trucks also can't reach the site easily until READI-funded road work at US-31 and Bear Lane and County Road 700 North is finished, work backed by a grant of up to $1 million. If you're weighing an expansion site, Taylorsville raises a fair question: is it smarter to build next to an anchor tenant's existing infrastructure than to build standalone.