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PROFILE: LB&A Sign Management: Signs matter Artist helps firms promote their brands

August 13, 2007

LB&A Sign Management Signs matter Artist helps firms promote their brands It takes more than a power drill to put up a company’s sign these days. In most cities and towns, there are ordinances and zoning regulations to comply with and permits to get before a sign is tacked on the side of a building. Business owners also want their signs to capture the firm’s essence-and look good, too. That’s where Lisa Bohn comes in. Bohn, 40, parlayed 15 years’…

A&E: Elvis has left the production

August 6, 2007

For many people, the sign of a good musical is that you leave the theater humming the songs. But what are we to make of the recent onslaught of shows where you hum the songs going in? These “jukebox musicals” raid the song catalogues of singers, composers or bands (The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, et al.) to cobble together a score. While the practice of creating a musical out of preexisting songs goes back through music and film…

Landlord handling of water, sewer bills under scrutiny: Utility commission examining charges to see whether owners operate as utilities

July 16, 2007

State utility regulators are examining whether operators of apartments and trailer parks are hosing tenants with excessive bills for water and sewer service. The inquiry by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission takes aim at decades-old billing practices that include dividing up a complex’s total water and sewer bills among all tenants. The commission said it’s received a handful of complaints over the years alleging rental property owners, or their billing agents, are assessing tenants higher rates than the commission permits…

Other builders unlikely to follow KB out of Indy, experts say

July 11, 2007

KB Home Inc. probably will be the only national builder to abandon the Indianapolis-area market, local observers say. Dallas-based Centex Corp., Pulte Homes Inc. of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Beazer Homes USA, headquartered in Atlanta, are even more likely to stay now that KB is leaving, said Steve Lains, CEO of the Builders Association of […]

Thoughts on KB’s exit?

July 11, 2007

More bad news on the housing front, as KB Home says it’s bailing on Indianapolis. How big of a loss is it? KB entered the market in 2004 with…

BREAKING: KB Home to exit Indianapolis market

July 10, 2007

KB Home Inc. is pulling out of the Indianapolis market, a spokesman for the Los Angeles-based homebuilder confirmed this afternoon. The company was the fourth-biggest homebuilder in the Indianapolis area in 2005, ranked by permits filed, according to IBJ’s Book of Lists. However, in recent quarters the housing slowdown has taken a toll on it […]

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Want young employees? Get young technology

June 25, 2007

I thought I’d explored just about every purpose to which computer hardware and software would lend themselves, but Neil Taflinger of Intake magazine tossed me a new one in the May 17 issue. Technology, he says, is a tool for retaining young employees. Could be, I suppose. Taflinger is one of those young employees he talks about, a real Gen X’er, so he might have some insight here. According to Taflinger, Gen X’ers partly judge any company they work for…

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Is techno-speak making your mind spin?

May 28, 2007

A BBC online story from November got me thinking about funny looks. I get those a lot, and not just because most mornings I look like a poorly repaired sidewalk. I get them because of the words I use. But I can’t help it. Nobody in technology can help it. When we talk about technology, we always sound like we’re mumbling jargon, even when we’re not. The article (news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6118828.stm) dealt with the frustration workers have with supposedly cool business jargon,…

BEHIND THE NEWS: Housing slowdown roils state’s mortgage industry

April 30, 2007

Home lending might sound like a staid business. But anyone weathering the changes now sweeping through the Indiana mortgage market knows otherwise. Last year, we saw the sale of two huge Indiana-based home lenders-Fort Wayne-based Waterfield Mortgage and Fishers-based Irwin Mortgage. Also sold was Carmel-based Oak Street Mortgage, which not long ago had been a high-flier poised to go public. These weren’t cases of owners cashing out at the top of the market. Quite the contrary. Irwin Mortgage had become…

St. Elmo spinoff, Harry & Izzy’s, could go national

March 12, 2007

Harry & Izzy’s, a spinoff to St. Elmo Steak House slated to open in mid-April at Circle Centre mall, is the city’s most anticipated
new restaurant in years–a casual cousin to St. Elmo,
with lunch service and a wider menu, including salads, pastas and pizzas, along with standbys like the famous shrimp cocktail.

Harry & Izzy wins liquor permit

March 5, 2007

St. Elmo Steak House spin-off Harry & Izzy’s won unanimous approval for a liquor permit this morning after Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi withdrew as an investor in the $4 million venture, said Dave Heath, chairman of the state’s Alcohol and Tobacco Commission. Questions arose last week about the legality of Brizzi’s 10-percent stake in […]

Getrag plant site narrowed to Kokomo, Tipton, report says

March 5, 2007

Kokomo and Tipton are the only Indiana cities where German automotive companies Daimler-Chrysler and Getrag Corporate Group have applied for air-quality permits to build a transmission factory, according to the Kokomo Tribune. The plant would employ 1,200 to make a fuel-efficient dual wet clutch. A representative of United Auto Workers Local 685 told the newspaper […]

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Battle brewing between big business and the Web

March 5, 2007

The Web has always been viewed with suspicion by many people, but now it’s become nothing less than the cause of copyright lawsuits against Ellen DeGeneres for letting a guest dance the Electric Slide, against the Girl Scouts for doing the Macarena a satire Web site about Barney the purple dinosaur for making fun of the big guy, and against the online deal-finder site Black Friday for publishing prices from retailer Best Buy. Back in the old days, copyright holders…

Mega-dairy developer favors Indiana over Ohio

February 13, 2007

Speedy approval of permits makes Indiana more desirable than Ohio for huge dairy farms, according to a company that specializes in settling Dutch dairy farmers in the United States. Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development LLC, based in Wauseon, Ohio, told the Dayton Daily News that Ohio agencies are understaffed. Therefore, Vreba-Hoff applications in Indiana jumped […]

College targets dropouts with new program: Ivy Tech offers high school failures chance to get degree, pursue higher education

January 15, 2007

Ivy Tech Community College this month launched a pilot program that allows high school dropouts to earn their diplomas while simultaneously working toward a certificate or associate’s degree in college. Intended to improve the state’s labor pool, and as a lifeline to dropouts facing a dismal life in the earnings underclass, it will first be rolled out in Bloomington, Lafayette and Terre Haute. The Indianapolis campus also will offer the program aimed at those 19 or older, although a date…

Collector betting comic-book heroes draw crowds to downtown museum

January 15, 2007

A museum in the
works for downtown would feature one of the world’s largest collections of super hero memorabilia, including a Batmobile and
costumes worn by every actor who has played Superman on TV or in the movies.

Fortville firm’s helmet pads protect U.S. troops

January 8, 2007

Fortville-based Genesis Manufacturing makes helmet pads for U.S. troops through Colorado-based Skydex Technologies, which
won a contract this fall with the U.S. Air Force for 120,000 helmet pad kits. Most of the helmets have wound up in Iraq, where
the military has discovered soldiers need something more than Kevlar-lined helmets to survive roadside mines and exploding
Toyotas.

Shoopman ready to build again

December 11, 2006

Paul Shoopman put 33 years into Dura Builders Inc. before selling his residential construction firm to national player KB
Home Inc. as the local housing market boomed. Two years later, he’s getting back into the business even as KB and others retrench.

SPORTS: Keady takes on a job much harder than coaching

December 11, 2006

“Nursing’s a lot harder than coaching, I can tell you that,” Keady, 70, said from his Tippecanoe County home, not far from Purdue University where the basketball court in Mackey Arena bears his name. After 25 years on the Purdue sidelines in a storied career that had almost everything except the storybook ending, Keady signed on last year as an assistant coach with the NBA’s Toronto Raptors. This year, Raptors management changed and his contract was not renewed. Just as…

Coming attraction: Imax theater in Noblesville: Technology lets theaters show Hollywood blockbusters

November 27, 2006

Once upon a time not so long ago, Imax films were nearly synonymous with museums. In Indianapolis and elsewhere, the largeformat movie screens-some as big as the side of an eight-story building-featured 40-minute films that took viewers to exotic places like outer space or the top of Mount Everest, and were usually attached to educational and cultural institutions. But technology that debuted in 2002 is bringing Imax screens to suburbia-including to Noblesville in 2008. Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Goodrich Quality Theaters…

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PROFILE: LB&A Sign Management: Signs matter Artist helps firms promote their brands

A&E: Elvis has left the production

Landlord handling of water, sewer bills under scrutiny: Utility commission examining charges to see whether owners operate as utilities

Other builders unlikely to follow KB out of Indy, experts say

Thoughts on KB’s exit?

BREAKING: KB Home to exit Indianapolis market

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Want young employees? Get young technology

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Is techno-speak making your mind spin?

BEHIND THE NEWS: Housing slowdown roils state’s mortgage industry

St. Elmo spinoff, Harry & Izzy’s, could go national

Harry & Izzy wins liquor permit

Getrag plant site narrowed to Kokomo, Tipton, report says

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Battle brewing between big business and the Web

Mega-dairy developer favors Indiana over Ohio

College targets dropouts with new program: Ivy Tech offers high school failures chance to get degree, pursue higher education

Collector betting comic-book heroes draw crowds to downtown museum

Fortville firm’s helmet pads protect U.S. troops

Shoopman ready to build again

SPORTS: Keady takes on a job much harder than coaching

Coming attraction: Imax theater in Noblesville: Technology lets theaters show Hollywood blockbusters