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A proposed passenger rail line between downtown and Noblesville has drawn applause from Hamilton County commuters enduring highway congestion. But local leaders and, soon, a national team of experts, are quietly developing a strategy to revitalize what lies on the other end of the line: Marion County’s biggest concentration of brownfield sites and impoverished urban […]
In the midst of a $1.2 million campaign to upgrade streets, sidewalks and other neighborhood infrastructure, a coalition of Irvington businesses and residents is launching a unique marketing campaign to tout the neighborhood’s recent enhancements and position it as an alternative to places such as Carmel, Zionsville, Geist and Noblesville. Irvington officials have plowed $10,000 […]
Indianapolis has built a tidy book of business in the convention trade. Confabs ranging from the National FFA to Gen Con generated nearly 22 million visitors and $3.5 billion in spending in 2006 alone, according to D.K. Shifflet & Associates and Global Insight. With a new airport terminal and Lucas Oil Stadium up and running, […]
Heard the joke about the three economists who went hunting together? When they saw a deer, the first fired his shotgun and missed a foot to the left, while the second aimed and missed a foot to the right. The third economist didn’t shoot. Instead, he shouted in triumph, “We got it!” With the help […]
The American Institute of Architects is sending some big guns here to consider how transit-oriented development might transform the neighborhood around 22nd Street and the Monon Trail (see story). The AIA’s Sustainable Design Assessment Team initiative will involve volunteers from around the nation, ranging from urban designers to economists to hydrologists. The AIA program last […]
Gordon Garble and I are meeting for breakfast. Gordon orders the Everything Skillet: two eggs, Swiss cheese, hashbrown potatoes, ham, bacon, onions, green pepper and mushrooms, all topped by sausage gravy-with a side of three banana pancakes. I have the same, only to be friendly. “I’m thinking about running,” he says. “Exercise might be helpful,” […]
Cash-strapped theater group Carmel Community Players has nixed its summer musical, canceled its Summer Camp for Kids, and pulled out of Carmelfest 2009 after being denied the public funding it has received for years. Carmel’s City Council decided last month to withdraw its support for the 16-year-old CCP, giving $70,000 to rival Carmel Repertory Theatre, […]
I’ll take a break from my NYC dispatches so that IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin can offer this report.
Philanthropist Jeremy Efroymson has a rather unorthodox plan for leading the contemporary art venue that he co-founded out of financial straits.
Efroymson will become…
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How serious is next week’s NASCAR tire test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
Goodyear, who was largely credited for ruining last year’s Brickyard 400 NASCAR race, has called on one of its biggest critics…
As the city of Indianapolis continues to explore selling sponsorships to help bridge a yawning budget gap,
some interesting ideas are turning up.
As IBJ writer Riya V. Anandwala reports, proposals include sponsoring abandoned lots, underwriting the salting
of city…
So, three decades of decline has come to this for General Motors: a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition expected
to be filed Monday.
Lots of problems contributed to its downfall, but now the carmaker faces an extremely steep climb.
The bankruptcy…
Second in a series of dispatches from New York.
I’ve got mixed feelings about the, for now, temporary move to block traffic on Times Square and Duffy Square in midtown Manhattan. (Look for yourself here)
The experiment, which started this week, certainly gives the…
The federal government will offer guaranteed lines of credit to automobile, boat, recreational vehicle and other dealerships under a pilot program through the Small Business Administration. SBA Administrator Karen Mills said the Dealer Floor Plan financing program will be available July 1 through Sept. 30, 2010, and will offer dealerships a way “to get through […]
A fourth prominent Republican has decided to challenge longtime Indiana Congressman Dan Burton in next year’s GOP primary. State Rep. Mike Murphy of Indianapolis announced his candidacy today in Tipton at the vacant Getrag transmission plant that the company stopped building last year during a dispute with Chrysler. Murphy is a former Marion County Republican […]
About 200 production workers at a Fairfield Manufacturing Co. factory in Lafayette are being laid off. Fairfield vice president Jim Mills said the company has seen its business decline more than 30 percent in recent months and there’s no sign of recovery. The Lafayette Journal & Courier reported that before this week’s layoffs, 147 of […]
