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City should prepare for energy shortage:

March 14, 2005

Indianapolis city planners should begin planning for a declining energy future. “Peak oil” and natural gas (generally, the point at which worldwide production begins to decrease, and the resource subsequently depletes)-are well-documented and loom directly ahead. Yet local plans are silent on the subject. Long-term impacts on our economy and community fabric will be significant. Mobility and development patterns will be heavily affected. Politicians and the media need to inform the public and properly plan for this sobering eventuality. The…

IP center at IUPUI gets off to quick start: Facility lands first grant, hopes to sell naming rights

March 21, 2005

Legal scholar Kenneth Crews is a man of many hats who toils at 12-hour workdays as the upstart Center for Intellectual Property and Innovation on the campus of IUPUI begins to gain momentum. The center, whose mission is to produce attorneys fluent in the burgeoning IP practice area, was launched in May under the auspices of the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. The goal is to raise at least $1.5 million to jump-start a program that would grant…

EYE ON THE PIE: Citizens must fight tyranny to preserve freedom

March 21, 2005

A few reflections on the Department of Homeland Security and its Transportation Security Administration: The TSA declares it “has developed standardized security screening procedures for all airports. Therefore, you can expect that you will encounter essentially the same procedures at each airport you visit.” I doubt this claim. Note that my remarks are reserved, tolerant and most respectful concerning an agency that can arbitrarily deny me almost anything, including my freedom, in the name of national security. Consider my recent…

ROSE Awards ceremonies honor hospitality workers: A dozen employees commended for top-level service

April 4, 2005

Vickie English, night auditor, Courtyard by Marriott at the Capitol In her eighth year as night auditor at the Courtyard at the Capitol, English was honored for providing outstanding service, including driving to the airport to deliver an airline ticket a guest left at the hotel. Robert Diaz, chauffeur, Carey Indiana A 17-year employee with Carey Indiana, Diaz was praised for going out of his way to be helpful. When one one client requested food from a popular restaurant in…

Little jets get the test in Indiana: New aircraft could help small airports shave costs

April 4, 2005

A top Indiana economist will study whether an emerging class of aircraft known as “very light jets” could fuel an economic boom, especially in the state’s smaller, more isolated communities. Morton J. Marcus, director emeritus of the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University, will gauge the potential impact of VLJs in six communities, including Mount Comfort Airport in Hancock County. Several aircraft makers next year plan to launch the diminutive jets, which can whisk up to six people as…

GIZMOS: Here’s how to learn to parler franÃ§ais online

April 4, 2005

Several years ago, a colleague and I were in Montreal on both business and pleasure. I defy anyone to visit Montreal for business alone. It ranks with American cities such as Boston and San Francisco for charm and variety. Only one thing bothered me-I didn’t speak French. In fact, I don’t fluently speak anything except English, the high school German not having stuck very well. There’s my command of Geekspeak, which many consider to be as baffling as ancient Egyptian,…

Smoking warriors expand battlefield: Health advocates accuse grocers, retailers of misleading public with smoke-free claims

April 11, 2005

Bars and restaurants aren’t the only firms that will soon feel the heat from health advocates pushing laws to ban smoking in public places. Some are broadening their gaze to drugstores and even supermarkets as potential health risks-and they’re naming names of offending businesses. It’s a radical approach in a mildmannered metro area, where few dare to poke fingers in the eyes of the business or political elite. And it’s in stark contrast to groups such as Smoke Free Indy,…

With cash tight, ATA trading new planes for old: Smaller version of 737 can be loaded and unloaded more quickly, allowing for more flights per day

April 18, 2005

Plans by ATA Holdings Corp. to slash its number of aircraft by nearly half include replacing its sleek, new jets with smaller, older Boeing 737s that can fly more trips daily, generating more cash than the larger planes that now dominate its fleet. The Indianapolis-based parent of ATA Airlines wants to lease a dozen 737-300s and 737-500s-relatively stubby planes that date as far back as 1984. Meanwhile, ATA is returning 18 of the 33 Boeing 737-800s it had at the…

Design firms involved in midfield terminal project merge:

April 18, 2005

After working together on the midfield terminal project at the Indianapolis International Airport, CSO Architects Inc. and SchenkelShultz Architecture have joined to become CSO SchenkelShultz. Executives of the two announced the merger to employees April 12 during a staff meeting at CSO’s headquarters on East 96th Street. Terms of the deal were not released. “By working together, we found that we have a lot in common,” said James Schellinger, a managing partner at CSO. “We both work in a lot…

Experts see improving market: Higher occupancy rates, more construction projects mean good news for landlords, developers

April 25, 2005

IBJ: Is your sector of the construction or real estate industry better or worse off than a year ago and why? BURK: Overall, I think the Indianapolis office market is better off than it was a year ago. The occupancy rate for the 29-million-plus square feet of multitenant office properties in the market increased by about 2 percent last year, to 82.5 percent. There was positive net absorption of about 600,000 square feet, most of which occurred in the suburbs….

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: General Assembly’s shooting the three! Boom Baby!

April 25, 2005

Typically, when lawmakers are this near to reaching agreement on a state budget, it’s some time in early or mid-May, and we’re trying to pepper this column with analogies to the Indianapolis 500. However, we started the year with a race analogy-the one about Mario Andretti suggesting that if you felt like you were under control you weren’t going fast enough-and since the Indiana Pacers seemed destined for a brief playoff run this year, we probably ought to stick to…

Developers plan spec industrial on heels of new deals: More big leases are expected in coming months

May 2, 2005

For months, local industrial brokers have reported an uptick in activity from potential tenants in the modern bulk-industrial market. With the start of the second quarter, tirekickers seem ready to sign on the dotted line. Three large-scale industrial deals in Plainfield kicked off the second quarter, prompting developers to release plans for more speculative bulk-industrial development this year across the metro area. “The activity in the first quarter is setting up the second quarter for a lot of closings,” said…

IU planning logistics center: University seeks funds for facility to provide services to TDL industry

May 2, 2005

Indiana University officials say they’re shopping for a site near the airport or in Plainfield for a laboratory to help grow the state’s transportation-distribution-logistics industry-known as TDL. The IU Supply Chain Control Center would evaluate for companies the feasibility and cost benefits of new technologies that could be used to improve sourcing, production and product distribution. The service would be provided at no or little cost. But the center faces a logistics challenge of its own-a delivery of cash. IU…

Building trades set for takeoff: Construction companies line up for first set of bids on $300M midfield terminal

May 9, 2005

The Indianapolis Airport Authority board on May 9 is expected to vote to approve the letting of the first six construction packages. They’re worth a total of $70 million, said Midfield Program Manager John Kish. That’s about a quarter of the $300 million terminal building’s price tag. The $974 million midfield project also includes a new airport entrance at I-70 and Six Points Road. But it’s the terminal building that has broad appeal to the trades. “I’d say this is…

Airport goes batty on environmental mitigation: Cost of buying new land for bat habitat is triple estimates, on top of $21.6 million spent since early 1990s

May 9, 2005

The cost of replacing Indiana bat habitat bulldozed to build an Interstate 70 entrance to the midfield airport terminal has tripled from original estimates. The Indianapolis Airport Authority has spent $1.3 million buying new roosting land for the endangered bat, up from a $475,000 estimate published in the Authority’s justreleased annual report. That’s on top of $21.6 million in other environmental mitigation projects at Indianapolis International Airport involving bats and wetlands since the early 1990s. That amount is roughly equivalent…

SPORTS Bill Benner: Stadium proves dreams sometimes come true

May 9, 2005

In subsequent columns, I also stated that we needed a regional solution to the funding problem, and proposed a regional tax for the counties contiguous to Marion in which they could keep a share of the proceeds for their own capital projects. Finally, within days of last November’s election, I observed that it would require a bipartisan effort led by both Republican Governor Mitch Daniels and Democratic Mayor Bart Peterson to work this thing through the Legislature. I’m glad-overjoyed-everyone took…

Firm eyes national growth following design merger: CSO SchenkelShultz could bring more offices into fold

May 23, 2005

The two design firms joined forces to become CSO SchenkelShultz and consolidated more than 100 employees at the north-side office CSO previously occupied by itself at Parkwood Crossing. The combined firm might become much larger, however, if a long-term plan unfolds to bring more locations under the umbrella. Based in Fort Wayne, SchenkelShultz has nine remaining locations in Indiana, Florida and North Carolina separate from the merged office in Indianapolis. The merger could be a first step to a deeper…

Heartland Golf Cars and Equipment Co.: Golf cars have become hot commodity Local firm has ridden the trend to profitability ram said. He credits solid financing at startup as key to the success of Heartland. To anyone interested in starting a business, he

May 23, 2005

ram said. He credits solid financing at startup as key to the success of Heartland. To anyone interested in starting a business, he advises, “Don’t go into it on a shoestring. You have to have a business plan and be committed to working long hours. It’s not only working harder, it’s the workmanship, too. It may sound like an old clichÃ©, but it’s very true.” * Golf cars are no longer just for sport. These electric- or gasoline-powered cars may…

VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: Vibrant city can be built without oceans, mountains

May 23, 2005

In late April and early May, two things happened. The Legislature adjourned on time and Forbes magazine released its seventh annual list of the best (and worst) metro areas to develop businesses and careers. Forbes based its ranking on business costs, living costs, education levels of the work force, qualityof-life issues as well as job and income growth and migration patterns. Indianapolis ranked 33rd out of 150 of the country’s largest metro areas, and there’s some good news in that…

Givebacks extended:

May 30, 2005

ATA Holdings Corp. appears to have averted another financial crisis, reaching a tentative agreement with its pilots last week to extend concessions another four months. The Indianapolis airline warned in previous court filings that it was “at the risk of shutdown and liquidation” if U.S. Bankruptcy Court failed to mandate an extension of concessions. Whether the warning was posturing-or a sign of an even more precarious financial situation-is hard to decipher amid ATA’s Chapter 11 reorganization. The proposed pact with…

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City should prepare for energy shortage:

IP center at IUPUI gets off to quick start: Facility lands first grant, hopes to sell naming rights

EYE ON THE PIE: Citizens must fight tyranny to preserve freedom

ROSE Awards ceremonies honor hospitality workers: A dozen employees commended for top-level service

Little jets get the test in Indiana: New aircraft could help small airports shave costs

GIZMOS: Here’s how to learn to parler franÃ§ais online

Smoking warriors expand battlefield: Health advocates accuse grocers, retailers of misleading public with smoke-free claims

With cash tight, ATA trading new planes for old: Smaller version of 737 can be loaded and unloaded more quickly, allowing for more flights per day

Design firms involved in midfield terminal project merge:

Experts see improving market: Higher occupancy rates, more construction projects mean good news for landlords, developers

STATEHOUSE DISPATCH: General Assembly’s shooting the three! Boom Baby!

Developers plan spec industrial on heels of new deals: More big leases are expected in coming months

IU planning logistics center: University seeks funds for facility to provide services to TDL industry

Building trades set for takeoff: Construction companies line up for first set of bids on $300M midfield terminal

Airport goes batty on environmental mitigation: Cost of buying new land for bat habitat is triple estimates, on top of $21.6 million spent since early 1990s

SPORTS Bill Benner: Stadium proves dreams sometimes come true

Firm eyes national growth following design merger: CSO SchenkelShultz could bring more offices into fold

Heartland Golf Cars and Equipment Co.: Golf cars have become hot commodity Local firm has ridden the trend to profitability ram said. He credits solid financing at startup as key to the success of Heartland. To anyone interested in starting a business, he

VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: Vibrant city can be built without oceans, mountains

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