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City planners seek ways to replace PRI convention: Annual event was big money maker each December

August 1, 2005

Indianapolis hospitality leaders have launched a campaign to make up for the loss of a huge racing industry convention that is taking a hiatus from the city for the next half-decade. The Performance Racing Industry, or PRI, trade show has been a major event for the Indianapolis’ convention business for seven years, annually bringing up to 40,000 visitors to the city who spend more than $26.7 million. This event was especially valued because it typically took place in early December,…

Smaller-sized meetings bring in big bucks for city: Hospitality group sees value in events of all scales

August 1, 2005

Even event planners hire event planners. When Cynthia Howell needed to plan an event in the city for a state health care organization, she called Betsy Ward, a member of the meetings team at the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association. With what Howell calls minimal effort on her part, the Indiana Primary Health Care Association Inc. will stay in 50 rooms for two nights at the Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel and Suites at Keystone at the Crossing this fall. The group…

SPORTS: A history lesson for 21st century stadium critics

July 25, 2005

It is Oct. 20, 1971. I am standing near Market and Alabama streets, where the groundbreaking has taken place for a venue to be called Market Square Arena. The price tag is a salty $23 million, and the project has attracted critics and naysayers who wonder about the city’s priorities, especially since our mayor, Richard Lugar, is using federal revenuesharing funds to help pay for the arena. Plus, Lugar has this wacky idea about using the arena as a catalyst…

TOM HARTON Commentary: Keep your eye on the design

July 18, 2005

Design matters, and architects aren’t the only ones who should care. On the eve of two significant ground breakings, even those of us who know nothing about facades and fenestration should consider what’s about to take place here. Later this month, the first dirt will be turned on the site of the city’s new airport terminal, and we can assume that dignitaries will brandish shiny shovels next month just south of the existing RCA Dome. In both cases, there will…

FOR SALE?: Churchill Downs may be ready to sell struggling Hoosier Park

July 18, 2005

“I’m not sure Churchill Downs has put a deadline on this issue, but rest assured, they’re constantly evaluating their portfolio,” said Ed Feigenbaum, publisher of Indiana Gaming Insight. Churchill Downs sold Hollywood Park for $260 million to San Francisco-based Bay Meadow Land Co. The lofty price was based largely on the value of land in southern California. Analysts say Hoosier Park, which sits on 100 acres rented from the city of Anderson, would fetch a fraction of that price. Industry…

South downtown parking lot eyed for mixed use: Project slated to include ground-floor retail, with residential or office space above

July 11, 2005

A Lafayette developer has a parking lot on the southeast corner of Meridian and South streets under contract with plans for a mid-rise, mixed-use building. Developer John Teibel plans to purchase the 1.4-acre lot from local investors Robert and Karen Dittemore, who have owned the lot for several years, said Scott Langdon, who is representing the couple. The lot is across the street from Eli Lilly and Co.’s Faris/Brougher complex. Plans call for the first floor of Meridian Overlook to…

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Here’s the secret to painless wireless hookups

July 11, 2005

Last time, in the June 27 issue, we explored the basics of data WiFi, which is often just called “wireless.” This time, we’ll look at how you hook up your laptop or notebook to a wireless provider. Wireless works pretty much like a cell phone does, except that you’re exchanging data packets, not voice. Therefore, you need the computer equivalent of a cell phone. Most new notebook computers come with built-in wireless hardware that you’ll never physically see, because it’s…

BEHIND THE NEWS: Simon’s new strategy: Go beyond retail realm

July 11, 2005

Early this year, Simon Property Group Inc. CEO David Simon started dropping hints on Wall Street about a major new company strategy. “We really can’t tell you about it yet,” he said at an investment conference in March, a comment that piqued the curiosity of the roomful of analysts. Simon Property officials still aren’t falling over themselves to lay out the plan; a company spokesman declined to make someone available for an interview. However, during recent conference calls and investor…

Growth in big supply at 3-year-old Milor: Entrepreneur taps experience to land big clients

July 4, 2005

Michelle Taylor’s first customer was a north-side hotel that ordered 3,000 janitorial gloves a month. She got up at 3 a.m., processed the order out of her garage, and delivered the gloves in her car. Less than three years later, Indianapolisbased Milor Supply Inc. delivers 36,000 gloves a month, plus janitorial equipment and supplies and safety equipment, to universities, city and state governments, hospitals and a host of other industries across the country. The 35-year-old black female entrepreneur has moved…

ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: There are benefits to an open U.S. border

July 4, 2005

I was frequenting one of my favorite watering holes downtown and ordered a chocolate martini with a strawberry when my bartender informed me the price was likely to go up this summer. I asked him why and he told me there was some kind of shortage out West. So, after doing some investigation, I discovered there is a problem with the strawberry crop. There aren’t enough workers to pick them, therefore they stay on the vines and don’t make it…

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Wireless: What exactly is it and why is it unreliable?

June 27, 2005

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about wireless lately. You know, WiFi, the magical connection between laptop and Internet, the key to actually working at Starbucks? The questions vary from, “Why does my laptop just disconnect sometimes?” to, “How can I get wireless out by the pool?” I tried to scrunch the answers down into a single column, but they kept bulging out of the seams. So I decided to split them into three consecutive columns. I wouldn’t ordinarily…

Cab drivers drive down complaints: Service may have improved after city toughened rules

June 27, 2005

But much of the evidence is anecdotal, as city officials said they do not have complete complaint records for the periods just before and after the City-County Council imposed tougher regulations in 2002. One key problem addressed by those reforms seems to have diminished-drivers taking passengers to the wrong address. The city received only two such complaints in the last 1-1/2 years, according to records kept by the City Controller’s Office. That had been a commonly reported problem in the…

Rising tide brings flood of visitors to attractions: Leaders say cultural sites don’t compete

June 13, 2005

Indianapolis Zoo’s splashy new dolphin exhibit has drawn waves of sightseers since it opened Memorial Day weekend, but other local attractions aren’t worried the flood will wipe out their summer crowds. The timing couldn’t be better, observers said: just after the grand reopening of the renovated Indianapolis Museum of Art and before the debut of an expanded Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Indianapolis attractions seem primed to blow visitors out of the water. “To me, it’s a…

BULLS & BEARS: SEC task force looks into soft-dollar arrangements

June 6, 2005

Conflicts of interest in the securities business have probably existed ever since the first stocks were traded in 1792 under the buttonwood tree at the tip of Manhattan. With the formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, regulators attempted to mitigate conflicts via securities laws and full disclosure requirements. An issue that is receiving attention these days from the SEC, one investors are probably not aware of, are the “soft-dollar” arrangements prevalent in the industry. In May 1975,…

A quiet force: King helped revitalize city behind scenes

May 30, 2005

Coming of age in the 1950s, Tom King thought he’d make a pretty good engineer. “I grew up during what I call the ‘Sputnik Era’. Anybody who was a halfway decent student was going to be an engineer,” says the newly retired president of the Lilly Foundation. “When I saw what engineers did, I discovered I wouldn’t make a very good one.” Instead, King found himself a niche constructing some of the most complex local economic development projects of the…

Main post office pondering move: Relocation could prompt sale of 16 acres across street from proposed stadium

May 30, 2005

It’s not in the path of a new stadium planned for downtown Indianapolis, but the downtown post office may get out of the way anyway. U.S. Postal Service officials are negotiating an agreement to sell land the postal service owns within the stadium footprint, and a spokesman said that discussion is part of a larger scheme to relocate the entire facility. “They’re talking about moving the whole thing,” said Al Eakle, public affairs officer for the USPS’ Indiana district. “Basically,…

‘Rat’ campaign targets projects: Union-hired protesters picket non-union contractors

May 23, 2005

Union supporters have no plans to exterminate the giant rats that have become a common sight downtown, as they continue to pressure certain contractors to pay what they consider fair wages. That is the message from the Indiana/Kentucky Regional Council of Carpenters, the labor organization that has adopted the rodent as its mascot for a campaign targeting various downtown construction projects. Organizers said the effort is twofold: to create public awareness that union contractors are losing work, and to better…

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…

NOTIONS Bruce Hetrick: Traveling on the ritual road from loneliness to love

May 9, 2005

AVON, CONN.- I’m sitting alone, in my red sedan, in the parking lot at 40 Tower Lane, an office building where I last worked in 1991. It’s late at night. Rain pelts the pavement. And those who now work here have long since gone home to their spouses and families. I’m parked in the very spot where my best friend became more than that one fateful October afternoon. Pam had invited me to lunch that day to celebrate my birthday….

Convention payoffs won’t be instant: New deals, development unlikely until construction begins

May 9, 2005

The much-ballyhooed battle about funding for a new stadium and expanded convention center downtown appears to be over, but it will be some time before the victors get the spoils. Although state lawmakers authorized a series of tax increases to pay for the $900 million project, plenty of work remains to realize the promised payoffs-increased convention business, additional development and a shot at hosting the Super Bowl. “I don’t expect to see any of that until construction starts,” said Indianapolis…

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City planners seek ways to replace PRI convention: Annual event was big money maker each December

Smaller-sized meetings bring in big bucks for city: Hospitality group sees value in events of all scales

SPORTS: A history lesson for 21st century stadium critics

TOM HARTON Commentary: Keep your eye on the design

FOR SALE?: Churchill Downs may be ready to sell struggling Hoosier Park

South downtown parking lot eyed for mixed use: Project slated to include ground-floor retail, with residential or office space above

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Here’s the secret to painless wireless hookups

BEHIND THE NEWS: Simon’s new strategy: Go beyond retail realm

Growth in big supply at 3-year-old Milor: Entrepreneur taps experience to land big clients

ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: There are benefits to an open U.S. border

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Wireless: What exactly is it and why is it unreliable?

Cab drivers drive down complaints: Service may have improved after city toughened rules

Rising tide brings flood of visitors to attractions: Leaders say cultural sites don’t compete

BULLS & BEARS: SEC task force looks into soft-dollar arrangements

A quiet force: King helped revitalize city behind scenes

Main post office pondering move: Relocation could prompt sale of 16 acres across street from proposed stadium

‘Rat’ campaign targets projects: Union-hired protesters picket non-union contractors

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

NOTIONS Bruce Hetrick: Traveling on the ritual road from loneliness to love

Convention payoffs won’t be instant: New deals, development unlikely until construction begins