Concert Venues Want Slice of Proposed Indiana COVID Business Relief
(INDIANAPOLIS) A relief fund for Indiana small businesses could get a vote next week in the
state Senate, but some businesses are lobbying to expand it.
The bill is targeted mainly at restaurants, bars and hotels, but any business could be eligible if it
has fewer than 100 workers, grosses less than $10 million, and lost at least 30% of that
revenue to the pandemic after turning a profit the year before.
That revenue limit would rule out Noblesville’s Ruoff Music Center, but Live Nation lobbyist Mark
Shublak argues the pandemic has made the concert venue a small business, dropping Live