Police think known criminal could target Colts fans
Man known for smashing car windows, then offering to fix them for tidy sum has resurfaced downtown recently.
Man known for smashing car windows, then offering to fix them for tidy sum has resurfaced downtown recently.
Bryan Bedford, CEO, president and chairman of Indianapolis-based Republic Airways, will appear in an episode of “Undercover Boss” this season, CBS-TV announced.
The Pump & Cleaner Environmental Expo will be held in Indianapolis each year in February from 2012 to 2014. It is expected to attract more than 12,000 visitors annually and generate an estimated $24 million in spending over the three-year stretch.
The current expansion has absorbed the last of the adjoining space, leaving the convention center landlocked.
It doesn’t open until Feb. 4, but downtown’s JW Marriott hotel has already booked 100,000 room nights for 2011—more than any other local hotel—an achievement drawing both praise and concern from others in the hospitality industry.
Local organizers expect the 2012 Super Bowl to be played as scheduled, despite growing concerns that an NFL work stoppage could force postponement or cancellation of the game.
Officials are announcing details of an ambitious downtown development planned for 10 acres Eli Lilly and Co. owns near its Indianapolis headquarters. The project will include a hotel, apartments, restaurants and retail space and a YMCA.
The city plans to issue bonds and use tax-increment financing to fund the $150M project, which also will include 320 high-end apartments and 40,000 square feet of retail space. Construction should begin this year.
The city has accumulated a $12 million surplus of funds from the downtown TIF district, raising questions from critics who wonder how the windfall came about.
A pizza-delivery driver was pepper-sprayed and robbed in a west-side motel parking lot early Wednesday morning, Indianapolis police say. The incident, which involved a Papa John’s driver, occurred in the Dollar Inn parking lot along Crawfordsville Road near Speedway just after 1 a.m. The perpetrator got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Officials for Crowne Plaza Hotel downtown said a $400,000 enclosed connector linking the hotel to the convention center will be done in February.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lawsuit against the owners of a Hampton Inn on the east side charges that the hotel treated black housekeepers unfairly.
In May, only one-quarter of 2010 college graduates who applied for a job actually received one, compared with more than half in 2007. About as many college graduates of all ages also are plagued by underemployment, working jobs below their skill level—including Butler grad Tom Otero.
Local not-for-profit also may temporarily reduce client services to ease its financial struggles. The agency said it needs to raise $200,000 to continue operating through the rest of the year.
The Estridge Cos. said it is reducing Symphony from a planned 1,400 acres to a size that will closer rival the Carmel-based home builder’s 436-acre Centennial development, also in Westfield.
Despite objections, the Metropolitan Development Commission agreed to provide $600,000 in city funds to help build an enclosed pedestrian walkway connecting the downtown PNC Center with the Indianapolis Artsgarden.
Andrew J. Miller, 40, of Carmel, was arrested on a charge of public indecency about 1:30 p.m. at Claypool Court, a retail and hotel center near the Circle Centre mall, authorities said.
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Andrew J. Miller resigned Thursday, the day after he was arrested for allegedly exposing himself in a public restroom in downtown Indianapolis.