Indy Fringe executive director Pauline Moffat and Gary Reiter, a board member of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival
Inc., want to build an affordable live-work complex near Massachusetts Avenue.
Last month, Purdue University launched the Center for Energy Systems and Policy to make sure its researchers
are working early in the process with business and public-policy experts at the university.
The Pacers opening victory, new game innovations at Conseco Fieldhouse and retaining Danny Granger are bright spots in the
city’s vast sports scene.
A commission that has drawn $12.5 million in grants and public money to promote Indianapolis’ artistic side is awaiting word
on its future.
The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the Indianapolis-Marion
County Public Library and the Indianapolis Opera have come together to produce "Hansel & Gretel: Lost in the
Arts."
It’s been a disappointing season for soon-to-be ex-Purdue football coach Joe Tiller, but he helped make football important
at Purdue University.
P.E. MacAllister has helped turn Indianapolis into a culturally vibrant city.
Budget cuts could eliminate programs that gather and analyze local and state economic data. This would hurt businesses and
economic development officials, since they would not have the data that helps them see how their market differs from the state
and the nation.
Don Welsh is quickly making a name for himself as a change agent. Though few knew what to think when Welsh announced he was
leaving Seattle to become Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association CEO, he’s shown he didn’t come here to simply
wind
down his career.
Indianapolis Star sports columnist Bob Kravitz is making good on his promise to walk to Kokomo if Indiana Pacers guard Jamal Tinsley was still on the roster come the opening of the NBA…
Car and motorcycle dealerships owned by Russell J. Dellen before his death will continue under family ownership, according to one of his sons, Nick Dellen. Russ Dellen, who died of a heart attack on Nov. 8 at age 56, owned two car dealerships in Greenfield – one handling Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Pontiac brands, and […]
Hendricks Regional Health and YMCA of Greater Indianapolis announced a partnership today to build an integrated fitness center and medical office building – something they say will be unique in Indiana. The 100,000-square-foot center, named Hendricks Regional Health YMCA, will sit on nearly 29 acres along U.S. 36 in Avon. It will provide medical, wellness, […]
IU is breaking ground today on a $10 million life-sciences and Internet-technology incubator in Bloomington. The new facility will be 40,000 square feet and is scheduled for…
Indiana University has launched a technology center to help scientists attract research funding and drive discoveries that could be turned into life sciences and information technology businesses. The Pervasive Technology Institute will be funded by a $15 million commitment from Lilly Endowment, and be located in the new business incubator IU is building at 10th […]
Indianapolis will host the 2015 men’s Final Four basketball tournament, the NCAA announced today. A men’s Final Four is considered a financial coup, bringing in $50 million for the host city, the NCAA estimates. Other winners announced today are New Orleans, 2012; Atlanta, 2013; Dallas/Fort Worth, 2014; and Houston, 2016. The sites were selected from […]
For its next major public exhibition, the Arts Council of Indianapolis plans to bring the moving, geometric sculpture of the late George Rickey. Rickey’s time in Indiana played a key role in developing the tall, sweeping sculptures that won him acclaim in the 1960s. He was born in 1907 in South Bend, but his father, […]
Target, the primary sponsor of 2008 Indy Racing League champion Scott Dixon and his teammate Dan Wheldon, secured $16 million of exposure value during race broadcasts this past season, more than twice the…
Rather than further test Indianapolis’ tolerance for edginess, public art guru Mindy Taylor Ross is taking a different tack in 2009 by bringing in the widely known kinetic sculpture of the late George Rickey. Installation of an untold number of Rickey sculptures will begin on April 4, said Ross, public art director for the Arts […]
Jim Rosenstihl, an Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame coch, and Jim Limp, a retired Eli Lilly employee, together exemplified
an undying, unyielding, unrelenting friendship.
Charlie & Barney’s is quietly expanding into unorthodox niches, placing its product in unusual places — like convenience
stores.
