The locally based Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association will bring its fall trade show back to Indianapolis in 2011 and 2012—making good on a promise to return after a $275 million expansion of the Indiana Convention Center.

Bob Bedell worked behind the scenes for months--if not years--to make the case for expanding the Indiana Convention Center and building a 1,000-room hotel nearby. But someone else will have to fill both venues with visitors. The 60-year-old Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association president has said he'll retire at the end of June.

One of the two massive trade shows forced to leave Indianapolis because of a convention center space crunch isn't coming back as soon as expected. Locally based Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association is changing course three years after agreeing to return its fall CEDIA Expo to Indianapolis for four years beginning in September 2010.