St. Elmo Steak House is a downtown dinner destination that typically has little trouble attracting patrons tempted by its signature shrimp cocktail. The next four days will be no different. But this weekend’s reservation list is heavy on out-of-town guests hungry for both filet mignon and Big Ten basketball. All told, visitors in town for […]
St. Elmo Steak House is a downtown dinner destination that typically has little trouble attracting patrons tempted by its signature shrimp cocktail. The next four days will be no different. But this weekend’s reservation list is heavy on out-of-town guests hungry for both filet mignon and Big Ten basketball. All told, visitors in town for […]
A raft of special offers, including meals under $4, a daily milkshake “happy hour” and a $2.89 Steakburger snack-pack apparently are paying dividends for Indianapolis-based The Steak n Shake Co. The 490-store chain today reported its customer traffic so far this quarter is up 6.2 percent and same-store sales have jumped 1.8 percent. The jump […]
The city’s Capital Improvement Board approved cutting an additional $1.5 million from its annual budget yesterday and may have moved a step closer toward funding its annual operating budget with an increase in hospitality taxes. Local sports teams have been reluctant or noncommittal about shouldering a bigger financial load, CIB officials said. As a result, […]
The city’s Capital Improvement Board approved cutting an additional $1.5 million from its annual budget today and may have moved a step closer toward funding its annual operating budget with an increase in hospitality taxes. Local sports teams have been reluctant or noncommittal about shouldering a bigger financial load, CIB officials said. As a result, […]
A new French Lick Airport terminal designed to serve a growing number of travelers to southern Indiana’s Springs Valley will be nearly five times the size of the current facility built more than 40 years ago. “It kind of had fallen on bad times and is not the image we like to project as we […]
Six experts in green issues shared their outlook on businesses’ environmental responsibilities during IBJ’s Power Breakfast Feb. 13.
Although the Kernan-Shepard report focused on local government efficiencies, it is also clear that the management of Indiana’s
public resources and assets at the regional and state level has not kept pace with the technological and socioeconomic advances
of the last century.
Businesses have seized on environmental responsibility as a marketing mantra. But many have made their products, processes and facilities greener. Some are motivated by philosophical reasons, and others by rising energy bills and out of anticipation of federal regulations on carbon dioxide. Six experts in green issues shared their outlook during IBJ‘s Power Breakfast Feb. […]
Businesses have seized on environmental responsibility as a marketing mantra. But many have made their products, processes and facilities greener. Some are motivated by philosophical reasons, and others by rising energy bills and out of anticipation of federal regulations on carbon dioxide. Six experts in green issues shared their outlook during IBJ’s Power Breakfast Feb. […]
The biggest women’s sporting event in town this weekend isn’t the Big Ten basketball tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse. At least not according to organizers of the 2009 Mizuno Hoosier Mideast Qualifier. In any…
Turning over the blog for this item to reporters Kathleen McLaughlin and Scott Olson:
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is bowing out of the free summer concert series at Garfield and Holliday parks.
Symphony CEO Simon Crookall said he decided last fall, after…
The new 1,000-room JW Marriott convention hotel is rising fast at West and Washington streets in anticipation of a grand opening in March 2010. The $425-million complex also calls for a Courtyard by Marriott, SpringHill Suites and a Fairfield Inn…
Raising local hospitality taxes and trimming funding to local cultural organizations are among the possible solutions the Capital Improvement Board’s finance committee identified this morning to help chip away at the organization’s looming $38 million budget deficit. The CIB board will meet Monday to consider the options presented by the finance committee. A 1 percentage-point […]
If you haven’t heard by other means, perhaps you’ll learn about the upcoming Big 10 basketball tournaments at Conseco Fieldhouse from the street signs downtown.
The tournament, which runs tomorrow through Sunday for the women, and then the following Thursday through…
An overnight robbery of the Residence Inn on Digital Way in Indianapolis could be linked to a string of other robberies. Just after 2:30 a.m., two men pulled a knife on the desk attendant and made off with a small amount of cash. Investigators say the men fit the description of two thieves who robbed […]
Raising Indianapolis’ tax on hotel rooms — already one of the highest rates in the nation — could be the tipping
point that causes conventioneers to bypass Indianapolis, some industry experts say.
CORRECTIONS ¦ The Crowne Plaza Indianapolis Airport hotel, 2501 S. High School Road, was inadvertently omitted from the list of upscale Indianapolis-area hotels on page 20 last week. With a lowest room rate of $169 per night, Crowne Plaza Indianapolis Airport should’ve ranked No. 8 on the list, along with four other hotels. ¦ An […]
Raising Indianapolis’ tax on hotel rooms-already one of the highest rates in the nation-could be the tipping point that causes conventioneers to bypass Indianapolis, some industry experts say. Marion County hotels already pay 16 percent in sales taxes-the 9-percent innkeeper’s tax, plus the 7-percent state sales tax. An increase in the innkeeper’s tax would push […]
A prominent 11-acre site near I-465 and U.S. 31 in Carmel is now on the market for $16.7 million, a price that equates to around $1.5 million an acre. Listing agent Michael B. Drew of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker said the prime piece of property near the intersection of 96th Street and U.S. 31 could […]
