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Precedent plans spec office: Building signals improvement in north-suburban market

June 20, 2005

The Precedent Cos. is preparing to build a 100,000-square-foot office building in its namesake office park near 96th Street and Keystone Avenue, several local real estate experts said, further evidence of the north-suburban market’s recovery. The building would mark the first new speculative office construction in the park since the mid-1990s, just before Indianapolis-based Precedent sold the park’s 19 buildings with 1.1 million square feet of office space to Philadelphia-based Berwind Property Group Inc. in 1998. That sale didn’t include…

VIEWPOINT: Creativity is key to competitive advantage

June 20, 2005

Central Indiana is flat as a result of the Laurentide ice sheet that surged toward Indianapolis 17,000 years ago. Today, the whole world is flat as a result of the technological and social seismic shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-door neighbors,” says Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. Richard Florida, researcher on regional economic development, challenges Friedman’s metaphor. Florida says, “The world is even more concentrated,…

TAWN PARENT Commentary: This is no time for Hoosier hysteria

June 20, 2005

Some big decisions this spring have not made me particularly proud to be a Hoosier or a resident of Indianapolis. Sure, we got funding for a new stadium and a convention center expansion. That will bring more visitors to our community, and it says we care about sports and tourism. And glory hallelujah! We finally got daylight-saving time, the economic benefits of which are unproven. That says we care about being like everyone else, whether it makes any sense or…

Shrinkage a growing problem: Manufacturers seek ways to stem product losses

June 13, 2005

The U.S. manufacturing industry has begun rebounding from its economic swoon, but some industry experts think more manufacturers must become more efficient and eliminate waste if they are to compete in the current global climate. While the Manufacturers Alliance, an Arlington, Va.-based business and public policy research group, projected manufacturing growth of 3.4 percent this year and 3 percent in 2006, big challenges remain. One growing problem is the so-called shrinkage factor, defined in manufacturing as the percentage by which…

SPORTS: ‘Our’ future extends beyond Marion County line

June 13, 2005

NOBLESVILLE-That Gov. Mitch Daniels, aboard his RV-1, was caught in the daily late-afternoon I-69, State Road 37 traffic snarl and was a half-hour late for his Hamilton County town meeting here last week represented a theme of his presentation. We are no longer a city, but a region. With that in mind, Our Man Mitch has been venturing to the counties contiguous to Marion, pitching the pending 1-percent food and beverage tax that will supply a small-emphasis on small, an…

Cable operator to battle Ma Bell for downtown customers: Bright House to roll out telephone biz late this year

June 13, 2005

Bright House Networks plans a fourthquarter launch of residential phone service via its cable television system, bringing new competition to entrenched SBC Communications and to local exchange resellers in the heart of the city. That area includes the downtown business district, where Bright House already provides cable TV and high-speed Internet. Phone service tailored for commercial use “is probably a year out,” said Doug Murray, general manager of voice services in Indianapolis for the St. Petersburg-based company. Such a product…

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: If you’ve got the culture, you can share knowledge online

June 13, 2005

There’s a new buzzword just aching to make its way into your vocabulary. It’s “distributed cognition.” It means two or more heads are better than one. Nobody knows everything, so it’s a good idea to hook everybody together in big webs of knowledge. For many knowledge-management vendors, it’s a recycling of their sales pitches for knowledge bases and the like. The theory is that if you can get everybody busily contributing knowledge to an online location where others can use…

VIEWPOINT: Arts are a good investment for business

June 6, 2005

This summer, there are two red-letter days for the arts and cultural scene as well as our city and state: the official opening of the new home of the Herron School of Art on the IUPUI campus, which was set for June 3, and the dedication of the Indianapolis Art Center’s ARTSPARK Aug. 21. These events are only two of the many activities in 2005 that will help position Indianapolis as an arts and cultural destination, a goal set by…

Interns follow unique paths: Some internships offer more freedom, creativity

June 6, 2005

Internships can offer valuable learning experiences for college students looking to land the ideal job following graduation. But few provide an opportunity quite like the one extended by the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission in its quest to market the city as a cultural destination. By summer’s end, three undergrads will have traipsed the Hoosier state visiting fairs and festivals in a van decorated with the large, red arrow becoming synonymous with the promotional campaign. Whether their itinerary includes stops at…

New providers fill up the market for air-rescue services: Indiana sees growth spurt in helicopter transport firms

June 6, 2005

Medical helicopters are filling the skies over Indiana in an unprecedented growth spurt that has sparked a heated debate about overuse and quality of care. A market once dominated by not-forprofit Clarian Health Partners’ LifeLine program has seen three out-of-state companies plant seven new helicopter bases in central and southern Indiana over the past few years. PHI Air Medical Group Indiana, a subsidiary of Phoenix-based PHI Air Medical Services, opened bases in West Lafayette, Anderson and Columbus last year. They…

Schools face prevalence of online plagiarism: Educators try to thwart growing cheating problem as Web sites make it easy for students to purchase papers

June 6, 2005

Cheaters beware. High schools and universities are turning up the heat on students who pilfer information for research papers or book reports. The term plagiarism originated from the Latin word plagiarius, which meant kidnapper, and has existed for centuries. But the creation of the Internet has made it much easier to lift published material without crediting the source. With a few clicks of the mouse, students simply can “cut and paste” the information they need. Or, for a fee, they…

Up to the challenge: Stadium project leader has been here before

May 30, 2005

John Klipsch didn’t necessarily set out to take control of one of the largest public-works projects in Indianapolis history, but he prepared for it nonetheless. “My degree is in counseling,” he said with a wry smile. “This is how my career has evolved over the years.” So here he is, two months before work is scheduled to begin on a $900 million stadium construction and convention center expansion project, relying on his professional experience and personal dedication to get the…

HSAs picking up steam: Enrollment tops 1 million; biz tax breaks proposed

May 30, 2005

Earlier this year, employees of Indianapolis-based N.K. Hurst Co. became part of the growing fraternity of workers in the United States who are eligible for health savings accounts as part of their benefits package. As of March, the membership in HSAs numbered more than 1 million people, twice as many as the estimated 438,000 in September, according to a study by America’s Health Insurance Plans. The Washington, D.C.-based trade association for insurers said enrollment numbers are growing because more companies…

EYE ON THE PIE: How fast are housing prices rising?

May 30, 2005

Dear Jane Bryant Quinn: I apologize for writing so long after your March 28 column was published in Newsweek. You may have already addressed the issues that concern me. I don’t get to read that magazine until it has been around our house for a while. However, several other tardy readers have asked why housing prices in Indianapolis are falling. They all have the same source: your column. You wrote: “Prices dropped 4.2 percent in Charleston, W.Va., where the median…

Local tourney to test new blue tennis courts: RCA Championships hopes to enhance fan experience

May 30, 2005

The RCA Championships is preparing for its biggest on-court change since the local tennis tournament replaced clay with hard courts in 1988. As part of a branding campaign led by the U.S. Tennis Association and U.S. Open, courts at the Indianapolis Tennis Center are being repainted from the traditional green to an eye-catching blue. The courts will be resurfaced and repainted-at a cost of $25,000-the week of July 4, just in time for the RCA Championships July 16-24. The RCA…

BEHIND THE NEWS: Guidant defibrillator flap spawns disclosure debate

May 30, 2005

Early this year, when Minnesotabased Medtronic Inc. was deciding how to respond to a battery defect in its defibrillators, it contacted prominent Indianapolis cardiologist Douglas Zipes. “You absolutely go public with this,” Zipes, a longtime consultant for the Minnesota company, recalled saying. “You take your hit, you let the physicians know what is happening, and let them decide what to do with their individual patients.” Remaining silent, he said, carried worse risks, even though reported failures were rare. “The last…

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,…

After 5 years, USTA ready to serve up 96th Street HQ: Raymond James, First Merchants sign on as tenants

May 23, 2005

The locally based Midwest division of the U.S. Tennis Association is preparing to break ground on a 25,000-square-foot headquarters and hall of fame building on East 96th Street after five years of planning and courting tenants. The two-story office building was first conceived in 2000, but has been held up more than four years by a search for other tenants during a soft office market. The organization recently scored two tenants, Florida-based Raymond James & Associates Inc. and Muncie-based First…

June conference to highlight historic local landscapes: Oldfields, Garfield Park, Riverdale among sites on tour

May 23, 2005

Marian College will act as host for Hidden Treasures of Indianapolis, a conference scheduled for June 9-11 at the northside college and sites around the city. The first-ever conference of its kind locally will offer lectures and tours of some of the city’s historic landscapes, which were designed by some of the pre eminent landscape architects of the early 20th century. Tours available to attendees include a driving tour of George Kessler’s Parks and Boulevard System, which is at 3,474…

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Precedent plans spec office: Building signals improvement in north-suburban market

VIEWPOINT: Creativity is key to competitive advantage

TAWN PARENT Commentary: This is no time for Hoosier hysteria

Shrinkage a growing problem: Manufacturers seek ways to stem product losses

SPORTS: ‘Our’ future extends beyond Marion County line

Cable operator to battle Ma Bell for downtown customers: Bright House to roll out telephone biz late this year

RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: If you’ve got the culture, you can share knowledge online

VIEWPOINT: Arts are a good investment for business

Interns follow unique paths: Some internships offer more freedom, creativity

New providers fill up the market for air-rescue services: Indiana sees growth spurt in helicopter transport firms

Schools face prevalence of online plagiarism: Educators try to thwart growing cheating problem as Web sites make it easy for students to purchase papers

Up to the challenge: Stadium project leader has been here before

HSAs picking up steam: Enrollment tops 1 million; biz tax breaks proposed

EYE ON THE PIE: How fast are housing prices rising?

Local tourney to test new blue tennis courts: RCA Championships hopes to enhance fan experience

BEHIND THE NEWS: Guidant defibrillator flap spawns disclosure debate

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

After 5 years, USTA ready to serve up 96th Street HQ: Raymond James, First Merchants sign on as tenants

June conference to highlight historic local landscapes: Oldfields, Garfield Park, Riverdale among sites on tour