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First-class parking: Airport freebie list includes former politicians, other VIPs

May 1, 2006

Scott Jones could probably afford to buy the 1,800-space parking garage at Indianapolis International Airport, as one who’s earned millions of dollars in patent income from voice mail technology he invented. But why buy the garage? The Indianapolis multimillionaire shows up on a list of nearly 400 politicians and other VIPs entitled to free parking at the airport, a review of airport records shows. Begun as a courtesy to a handful of elected officials decades ago, the free parking list…

Medical office boom to hit intersection on south side: Developers race to scoop up acreage in area, enticed by proximity to hospitals, Interstate 65

May 1, 2006

A south-side intersection that didn’t even have a connection to nearby Interstate 65 a few years ago soon will become saturated with medical offices and a long-term, acute-care hospital. Greenwood developer Allen Commercial Group has plans to build four medical office buildings near the intersection of Emerson Avenue and County Line Road, less than a mile south of St. Francis Hospital-Indianapolis. Some of that work has begun. In addition, Indianapolis-based Lauth Property Group Inc. is planning two more office buildings…

Area construction employment surging: Workers stay busy as industry experiences 15 consecutive months of job growth

May 22, 2006

Building tradesmen in central Indiana don’t need a mind-numbing jobs report to tell them construction workers are in high demand. They need not look any further than their apprentice programs and union halls to gauge the industry’s health. The way the barometer works is simple: Full apprentice classes mean contractors are hiring and empty union halls mean they’re working. “When the benches are empty, that’s a good thing,” said Mike Kerr, a principal at locally based contractor F.A. Wilhelm Construction…

Companies confront truck driver shortage: Demand is high despite better pay, more time off

June 12, 2006

Amid the steady rumble of diesel engines, Ricky Smith parks his 18-wheeler among a raft of big rigs at the TA Travel Center in Boone County to relax and grab a bite to eat. It’s after 6 p.m., and the Tennessee resident is delivering grocery products on his weekly route that extends from Michigan to Georgia. Drawn by the opportunity to make more money, Smith ditched his job three years ago as a diesel mechanic to drive a truck. “I…

Kroger shops for land: Grocer gathering property for full-size downtown store

June 12, 2006

Downtown residents might finally get their second full-service grocery store. Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. has purchased an acre of land immediately west of its store near the intersection of 16th Street and Central Avenue in hopes of razing the existing store and replacing it with a new, and much larger, grocery. “We would like to build a brand new store that incorporates all of the amenities that [we] have at our newer stores,” said Jeff Golc, a Kroger spokesman. Neighbors are…

SPORTS: City’s full-court press pays off with tourney victory

June 12, 2006

Before the press conference announcing the Big Ten’s decision about the future of its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, I pleaded-to no avail-with Conseco Fieldhouse Executive Director Rick Fuson to post a score on the fieldhouse board. Indy 5, Windy 0. He was right in refusing to play along. It’s always good to take the high road. No sense rubbing Chicago’s nose in the news that the Big Ten had awarded the tournaments to our burg for five successive years…

Local firm snags major deal from Wall Street: City Securities leads $390 million airport bond issue

June 12, 2006

Indianapolis-based City Securities Corp. is leading a $390 million bond issue for the Indianapolis International Airport expansion. To snag the deal, it overcame a host of far larger competitors on Wall Street. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of local investment banking are greatly exaggerated. It’s the second-largest bond deal in City Securities’ 82-year history, surpassed only by the city’s 2002 purchase of Indianapolis Water Co. for $580 million. City Securities also led the water deal. “We’ve done…

Quality Roofing Services: Success helps roofers sleep through the night After surviving a rough first year, company shows signs of progress

June 19, 2006

After surviving a rough first year, company shows signs of progress Sleepless nights, upset stomachs and paranoia were common woes for the owners of Quality Roofing Services throughout their first year in business. “We worried about finances and thunderstorms,” said co-owner Paul Crafton, 50, recalling the professional and personal strain. “We wondered if we would make our payroll or go under and lose our investment.” But they persevered, starting their days early-often at 5:30 a.m.-and working late. Eventually, their efforts…

Williams Creek Consulting Inc.: Consultants engineer ‘green’ solutions After years of taking any work it could find, company specializes in stormwater issues

July 3, 2006

In development circles, the color green is often associated with money. But it has a different connotation for Indianapolis-based Williams Creek Consulting-an environmental one. Launched in 2002, the firm aims to help developers minimize disruptions to the natural features of a construction site, co-founder Neil Myers said. It specializes in strategies to manage stormwater runoff. “We improve a project by integrating the building into the natural environment,” Myers said. That means doing more than digging a series of retention ponds…

Mass transit’s catch? Paying for it

July 17, 2006

The idea of rapid transit is popular locally, but there’s no consensus on how to finance it. For construction alone, it would cost at least $546 million for suburban express bus service up to $1.4 billion for an "automated guideway" system similar to a monorail. And that's for only one corridor.

TOM HARTON Commentary: Driving the distance for the basics

July 17, 2006

I recently called my doctor’s office hoping he could squeeze me in to diagnose a minor, but annoying, health problem. His nurse informed me I wouldn’t be able to get an appointment for at least three days. She suggested I go to an immediate-care facility if I needed attention right away. I was surprised the doctor couldn’t see me, but I appreciated the nurse’s candor. She knew better than to cheerfully suggest an appointment days in the future, by which…

Indiana encourages agri-tourism efforts:

July 31, 2006

For Cliff Carley, Sept. 11, 2001, is a date of great personal significance unrelated to tragic events. That’s the day the construction company owner bought a pair of Rocky Mountain elk and began raising the large deer on his northern Hamilton County property near Atlanta. Nearly five years later, Carley Elk Farm hosts Saturday tours for which visitors pay $5 to roam the rural acreage and help feed a herd that numbers about 50. On the way home, they can…

Let’s throw energy into public safety: We ignore crime at our peril

August 7, 2006

When yet another media story appears about jail overcrowding, it’s tempting to look away, to focus instead on rising gas prices, out-of-control health insurance costs or other pressing problems confronting your company. But make no mistake: Crime is a business issue. And it is escalating. Major offenses reported to the Indianapolis Police Department through April were up 22 percent over the first four months of 2005. Probably fueling that increase are the growing numbers of inmates being released early from…

Developers eye extension for opportunities: Four-mile link of 146th Street from S.R. 37 to I-69 in Noblesville will turn road into important thoroughfare

August 14, 2006

A commercial corridor brimming with office buildings, similar to the one along U.S. 31 in Carmel, is what Noblesville city planners envision for the 146th Street extension from State Road 37 to Interstate 69. Ground is expected to be broken this fall on the four-mile extension, which will make the street a major east-west thoroughfare through the south side of Noblesville if finished as planned in October 2007. The street is already a busy route across much of Hamilton County,…

Verus Partners gets busy in 1st year in local market: Chicago newcomer has 3 developments under way

August 14, 2006

In 2003, four men decided to leave careers at Chicago-based development powerhouse Higgins Development Partners LLC to start their own company. The result, Verus Partners LLC, an industrial, office and institutional developer, has grown rapidly, opening two offices in Canada and one in Indianapolis, and is pondering a new office in Charlotte, N.C. And its 1-year-old local office is spearheading an aggressive move focused on developing speculative industrial space. Last year, Verus hired Tom Theobald, a 19-year commercial real estate…

TOM HARTON Commentary: Still trying to get it right

August 14, 2006

We’re about to pave a small neighborhood park so that patrons of a bar in a government building will have a place to stash their cars while they drink. What better time than now to revisit a couple of previous columns about urban design? (More on the playground later.) Back in May, I wrote about local entrepreneur Tom Battista’s work to restore commercial life to the 800 block of Massachusetts Avenue and what’s left of the 900 block. The 900…

Franklin manufacturer benefits from high petroleum costs

August 14, 2006

Increased oil and natural gas prices are hammering many manufacturers, but Franklin-based Grimmer Industries Inc. is flying high. Grimmer specializes in making Hurricane brand air compressors and compressor boosters used in oil and natural gas well drilling and aggregate mining.

Fountain Square district shoring up its Corners: Group turns old buildings into residential/work spaces

August 14, 2006

If State and English avenues in the Fountain Square district were on a Monopoly board, they would probably be the ones available immediately after passing “Go.” But after the Southeast Neighborhood Development Inc. is finished there, the intersection will move several spaces closer to Park Place. The not-for-profit is investing $1 million to renovate three dilapidated buildings it bought to convert them to residential/work spaces as part of its Fountain Square Corners development. A local photographer who will live in…

Putting a spin on 911: Law-enforcement agencies embrace reverse system

August 21, 2006

Langsenkamp, CEO of Sigma Micro Corp. in Indianapolis, began conducting research on the patented Reverse 911 Interactive Community Notification System in 1990. The technology, however, didn’t hit the market en masse until a decade later. Today, roughly 350 law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada, including those in Carmel and Beech Grove, use it to blast warnings to residents. “It was the first system that ever allowed people to dial phone numbers and deliver messages based on the…

St. Vincent makes bigger investment in charity care: Need drives construction of Primary Care Center set to open in mid-2007

August 28, 2006

Here’s a lesson they don’t teach in business school: Take an entity that loses $4 million annually and expand it 50 percent. That’s the plan St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital unveiled earlier this month when it broke ground on a new, larger Primary Care Center serving indigent, underinsured and uninsured patients. That population of poor, mostly Spanish-speaking patients has more than doubled its annual visits since 2000. St. Vincent officials say the new $4 million center is 10 years overdue. Their…

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First-class parking: Airport freebie list includes former politicians, other VIPs

Medical office boom to hit intersection on south side: Developers race to scoop up acreage in area, enticed by proximity to hospitals, Interstate 65

Area construction employment surging: Workers stay busy as industry experiences 15 consecutive months of job growth

Companies confront truck driver shortage: Demand is high despite better pay, more time off

Kroger shops for land: Grocer gathering property for full-size downtown store

SPORTS: City’s full-court press pays off with tourney victory

Local firm snags major deal from Wall Street: City Securities leads $390 million airport bond issue

Quality Roofing Services: Success helps roofers sleep through the night After surviving a rough first year, company shows signs of progress

Williams Creek Consulting Inc.: Consultants engineer ‘green’ solutions After years of taking any work it could find, company specializes in stormwater issues

Mass transit’s catch? Paying for it

TOM HARTON Commentary: Driving the distance for the basics

Indiana encourages agri-tourism efforts:

Let’s throw energy into public safety: We ignore crime at our peril

Developers eye extension for opportunities: Four-mile link of 146th Street from S.R. 37 to I-69 in Noblesville will turn road into important thoroughfare

Verus Partners gets busy in 1st year in local market: Chicago newcomer has 3 developments under way

TOM HARTON Commentary: Still trying to get it right

Franklin manufacturer benefits from high petroleum costs

Fountain Square district shoring up its Corners: Group turns old buildings into residential/work spaces

Putting a spin on 911: Law-enforcement agencies embrace reverse system

St. Vincent makes bigger investment in charity care: Need drives construction of Primary Care Center set to open in mid-2007