Here comes Spicy Pickle!
A Denver restaurant chain named for the pickles that come on every plate wants to open 10 locations in central Indiana. The 31-restaurant chain plans to begin construction on its first location…
A Denver restaurant chain named for the pickles that come on every plate wants to open 10 locations in central Indiana. The 31-restaurant chain plans to begin construction on its first location…
One improvement BAA made in Indianapolis never got much attention: It tried to weed out patronage jobs. Former airport board member Gordon St. Angelo thought it was one of the most significant benefits of taking airport management out of municipal hands. “I think a major improvement was the streamlining of what had been a semi-patronage type of program,” St. Angelo said, referring to BAA’s eliminating some nonproductive employees and practices. Municipal agencies such as airports’ becoming dumping grounds for politicians’…
The summer of 2007 will likely go down in history as the Summer of Terror in the Skies. Well not exactly terror in the skies, more like terror in the skies as it relates to waiting at the gate area for your plane to arrive, as in sitting on the runway for two hours waiting for your plane to take off, as in wondering if you can possibly make your connecting flight now that your original flight is three hours…
Not-for-profits that banked on consistent support from the banker down the street can no longer count on a tip of the top
hat, thanks to ever-larger mergers among institutions that have changed the dynamic of their charitable giving.
The Indianapolis Airport Authority’s management contract with British firm BAA unceremoniously expired July 15, and authority
officials taking the helm for the first time since 1995 say they’re confident they are prepared to continue to innovate as
they prepare to open a new terminal.
ATA Airlines plans to discontinue line maintenance in Indianapolis by Nov. 1 and appears ready to deactivate its Indianapolis maintenance operations entirely. The discontinuation of line maintenance-which involves quick, overnight-type aircraft work rather than overhauls-underscores the increasing irrelevance of Indianapolis to the locally based airline. Once the busiest carrier at Indianapolis International Airport, ATA ended […]
IBJ was named the best large-market business journal and collected five other awards at the Alliance of Area Business Publications’
summer conference June 23 in Denver.
A Purdue University fund-raising campaign launched in 2000 has amassed $1.7 billion, $400 million more than the original goal. The fund-raising results, to be officially announced tomorrow, cap a stint by Purdue President Martin Jischke that includes a furious economic development effort advanced yesterday by the unveiling of a tech park project near Indianapolis International […]
Purdue Research Foundation has purchased a half-interest in 78 acres in AmeriPlex industrial park on the far west side to start a technology park that the university anticipates filling with as many as 75 businesses and 1,500 jobs. The announcement is expected during a 1 p.m. news conference at the site. AmeriPlex is south of […]
More than a year after PepsiCo Inc. began scouting the Indianapolis area for a site on which to build a warehouse for its Gatorade drink, the New York company has bought 105 acres in AmeriPlex industrial park near Indianapolis International Airport and broken ground. PepsiCo will build 1.1 million square feet of distribution space at […]
A consultant told business leaders in the Evansville area Tuesday that they should pounce on the chance to build an intermodal facility where freight containers can be exchanged between railroads and trucks, and do it before Terre Haute follows through on desires to launch a similar project. Morley and Associates business development director John DiDomizio […]
A news conference has been called Thursday afternoon at a site near Indianapolis International Airport at which outgoing Purdue University President Martin Jischke will make an announcement about Purdue Research Park. State and local officials are expected to attend, too. In West Lafayette, Purdue Research Park has more than 90 technology related companies.
Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson said today that Airport Expressway has been renamed the Sam Jones Expressway after the long-time Urban League president. Jones died four years ago at age 75. The road was renamed to avoid confusion because it will not lead to Indianapolis International Airport after the midfield terminal project is finished in 2008.
Better air access to Western cities key to Indiana’s technology and bioscience industries is high on the wish list for executives
and travel managers who responded to a survey commissioned by Indianapolis International Airport.
The Indianapolis International Airport Authority Board this morning gave the public the chance to weigh in on its proposed smoking ban. If the ban is approved, the public smoking room would be closed July 31 and smoking would be prohibited anywhere on the property by Jan. 1.
Large parcel near Mount Comfort airport to be developed, area starting to boom Rosemont, Ill.-based Verus Partners LLC has asked the Hancock County Area Plan Commission to rezone 228 acres near Mount Comfort Airport to permit construction of an industrial park. The area is ripe for development, said Dennis Maloy, executive director of Hancock Economic […]
Verus Partners LLC of Rosemont, Ill., has filed a request to ask the Hancock County Area Plan Commission to rezone 228 acres near Mount Comfort Airport to light industrial from institutional. The Chicago-area commercial real estate development company said the property no longer fits into the airport’s long-term plans, and that it wants to launch […]
San Francisco-based Oxford Lodging Advisory & Investment Group said today it has bought the 407-room Adams Mark Hotel on Executive Drive near Indianapolis International Airport for an undisclosed price. Other Adams Mark properties acquired by Oxford from St. Louis-headquartered HBE Corp. are in St. Louis, Denver, Dallas and Buffalo, N.Y. The deal, which is expected […]
Virtually unnoticed in the spate of bills that emerged from the 2007 session of the Indiana General Assembly was creation of a new officer in state government who can be extremely helpful in the state’s economic development efforts. The law creating a Geographic Information Officer, or GIO, gives official status to an important discipline that has been blossoming over the last 25 years and is increasingly relied upon in business and political decision-making. A Geographic Information System is a collection…
We’re heading into the Summer Travel Season, and travel this year likely will be even more ridiculous than usual. Gasoline will be more expensive, traffic will be heavier, roads will be messier. Tempers will flare and danger will lurk at every intersection. And that’s just driving across town to pick up those spare suitcases from Mom. In this country, we are given two choices for summer travel, driving or flying. The train is kind of a non-starter, which is a…