Indianapolis Executive Airport in Zionsville will reopen its main runway Saturday after a $4.3 million resurfacing project paid for with federal stimulus funds, the airport announced today. It’s the first U.S. airport to benefit from stimulus money, said officials from Montgomery Aviation, which runs the airport. Resurfacing of the 5,300-foot runway resulted in a 45-day […]
Indianapolis Executive Airport in Zionsville will reopen its main runway Saturday after a $4.3 million resurfacing project paid for with federal stimulus funds, the airport announced today. It’s the first U.S. airport to benefit from stimulus money, said officials from Montgomery Aviation, which runs the airport. Resurfacing of the 5,300-foot runway resulted in a 45-day […]
The Indianapolis Airport Authority board is set to vote tomorrow on a plan to lease 209.5 acres now used as a bat conservancy to Hendricks County Parks and Recreation as a public nature park. The proposed Sodalis Nature Park is west of County Road 975 East, between County Road 750 South and County Road 800 […]
This week, artists who stayed, a star-tobe at the ISO, and a return to India for Gregory Hancock. I’d be very interested in hearing where Indiana State Museum visitors spend more time-at “Making It in the Midwest: Artists Who Chose to Stay” or across the hall at its sister show “T.C. Steele and the Society […]
This week, artists who stayed, a star-tobe at the ISO, and a return to India for Gregory Hancock. I’d be very interested in hearing where Indiana State Museum visitors spend more time-at “Making It in the Midwest: Artists Who Chose to Stay” or across the hall at its sister show “T.C. Steele and the Society […]
This is a cautionary tale. Beware of your best commercial friends, your most trusted business allies, your most generous corporate supporters. They may abandon you when you need them most. Let’s fill in the details. NCR Corp. (formerly National Cash Register) was founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1884. It became one of the great innovative […]
The unexpected move of NCR Corp. from Ohio to Georgia illustrates how even the best corporate citizens can show a fickle streak.
LOU’S VIEWS Sticking around: Midwestern and proud, then and now This week, artists who stayed, a star-tobe at the ISO, and a return to India for Gregory Hancock. I’d be very interested in hearing where Indiana State Museum visitors spend more time-at “Making It in the Midwest: Artists Who Chose to Stay” or across the […]
By purchasing two struggling airlines for which it flies, Republic Airways Holdings is taking aboard substantial risks that
threaten its profitable niche, analysts say. Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines are not only leaking money, but fly at
an altitude where major carriers routinely dogfight
in a fare war Republic hasn’t had to fight as a contract carrier.
Cafe Patachou owner Martha Hoover plans to open a pizzeria next to her trademark eatery at 49th and Pennsylvania streets. The new venture, called Napolese, should be ready by late fall and will feature traditional, Neapolitan-style pizza. Hoover said she decided to branch out from her popular cafe concept to bring another variety of pizza […]
Commercial Liquidators of America has landed the job of auctioning off furnishings and equipment from the old airport terminal at Indianapolis International Airport.
The Indianapolis Airport Authority plans to sell thousands of items from its old passenger terminal during an auction next month. The authority hopes to make at least $500,000 as it sells off building materials, office equipment, signs and other items, such as a 5-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty and 35 posters featuring Princess […]
The Indianapolis Airport Authority plans to sell thousands of items from its old passenger terminal during an auction next month. The authority hopes to make at least $500,000 as it sells off building materials, office equipment, signs and other items, such as a 5-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty and 35 posters featuring Princess […]
This year’s Indianapolis International Film Festival gets rolling later this usual, with a bump to summer precipitated
in part by the moving on of its founder to the Nashville Film Festival and in part by the move of most of the fest (minus
parties) to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. We’ve spent the last few weeks reviewing most of the
features in competition.
Federal stimulus money for Indiana highway projects so far has put to work 1,222 people with a payroll of $1.27 million,
according to state records of 42 projects under way in which contractors have reported job data. The work, ranging
from paving to replacing bridge decks, had a total contract value of $39.2 million.
Evansville officials plan to build a new 11,000-seat arena in conjunction with a major remodeling of a downtown hotel.Work could start as early as next month on what Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel said will be a transformation of the city’s downtown.The plan, announced yesterday, will put the $127 million arena on a different site than […]
The Indianapolis Airport Authority, facing a $15 million budget shortfall on declining passenger and cargo traffic, plans to sell the former ATA Airlines Inc. headquarters and might raise parking fees. A memo prepared for tomorrow’s airport board meeting says Indianapolis-based Paul Kite Co. plans to buy the former ATA site at Girls School Road and […]
Like many businesses and local commerce, the FedEx Express hub at Indianapolis International Airport is trying to thrive during a decline in shipping and an increase in fuel prices.
For four decades, Jim Ashby worked as a manufacturing floor manager, first for General Motors Corp., then, after a buyout,
for an Ingersoll Rand subsidiary. He likes to relax and fish, but Ashby considers himself too energetic for retirement. He’s
now 67 years old. And a first-time entrepreneur.
Comlux Completion USA, a Swiss company that operates two hangers at Indianapolis International Airport, plans a $46.3 million expansion that could create 480 jobs over the next five years, state economic officials announced today. Comlux Completion, part of the Switzerland-based Comlux The Aviation Group, refurbishes and completes interiors for corporate aircraft. The firm, which already […]
