Light reading + who is closing
Let’s start with some real estate news from this week’s IBJ in print:
Charter Homes owner Jerry Jaquess fancies himself a white knight for King Park, a neighborhood once known…
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Justices: Interest forbidden on workers’ comp
Indiana law doesn’t allow collecting interest on Worker’s Compensation benefits, including past-due medical bills, the Indiana Supreme Court said today. The ruling upheld a 2006 decision by the Indiana Workers’ Compensation Board. The board denied a request by a dentist who wanted to charge interest on past-due medical bills incurred by treating a patient who […]
Grant to support Athenaeum fundraiser
A $100,000 grant from Lilly Endowment is intended to help the Athenaeum raise funds to continue restoration of the downtown landmark. The Athenaeum Foundation said yesterday that the grant will support a development director for two years as the foundation looks to projects that range from tuck-pointing bricks, at a potential cost of $250,000, to […]
IRL revs effort to get in fans’ ears
Indy Racing League officials are unveiling a new communications system using Bluetooth technology that will beam audio messages straight into the wireless telephone earpieces of fans attending their races.
Fans at the track will…
Flood swamps Columbus furniture firm
Record flooding on June 7 has claimed a downtown Columbus furniture and interior business. Montage Furniture & Design will close after 16 years in business, The Republic newspaper of Columbus reported. More than $100,000 of merchandise was lost when flood waters hit a Montage warehouse. Montage, owned by Trent and Cinde Wirth, will close in […]
Noblesville Daily Times to stop presses
Five years after its launch, the Noblesville Daily Times will stop publishing at the end of the week, the newspaper said today on its Web site. “It’s a tough economy, it’s a competitive market, and it’s a tough time for newspapers in general,” Publisher Michael Corbett said in an online story. “All newspapers are wrestling […]
Hammond Kennedy finances company buyout
The Indianapolis private-equity firm Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Co. Inc. has financed the recapitalization of Crane Rental Corp. of Orlando, Fla. Hammond Kennedy partner Jim Snyder said the value of the deal was more than $60 million, and involved the existing president of the family-owned company remaining in the post and holding a minority equity […]
Favre hot on Manning’s heels
Believe it or not, there are a few people who actually don’t know anything about Peyton Manning. They wouldn’t know him if they saw him drinking Gatorade, and they wouldn’t know him with or without a fake mustache. They wouldn’t…
Habitat builds through tough times
The down economy hasnâ??t exactly been a gift to not-for-profits, but at least one is actually doing better.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis plans to build 22 houses this year, a couple of units more
than last year.
With dollar donations…
Celadon strikes agreement with trucking firm
Indianapolis-based Celadon Trucking said it will help Farmington, N.Y.-based Priority America wind down its over-the-road trucking operations, but did not disclose the value of the agreement. Celadon will handle some of Priority America’s customer loads and assist a lender retrieve tractors and trailers and collect accounts receivable. However, Celadon will not buy assets of the […]
Steelworkers vote today on strike authorization
Fourteen thousand members of the United Steelworkers union are being asked to vote today to permit a strike against domestic plants operated by ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based steel giant. In Indiana, ArcelorMittal has plants in Burns Harbor, East Chicago and New Carlisle. About half of the company’s 14,000 U.S. union employees are in the Indiana plants, […]
Bright House close to deal with Big Ten Network
Officials for local cable television provider Bright House Networks said they expect to finalize a deal later this week to carry Big Ten Network programming. A deal would make Big Ten sports programs available to 120,000 households in central Indiana that don’t have access to the network. Comcast, the other major cable provider in the […]
Indy Star guild claims layoffs violated contract
Layoffs announced last week by The Indianapolis Star violated a contract with the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, the guild alleged in a grievance filed yesterday Five of the seven newsroom staff who were laid off lost their jobs without consideration of their seniority, the guild claimed. The other two were managers, thus were not covered by […]
SAT scores stuck below average
This yearâ??s SAT scores are out, and there isnâ??t much to cheer about. Indiana saw math scores improve slightly,
but reading and writing scores dropped a few points. All three remain below national averages.
Educators say the tests are…
Colts cuts not made on emotion
First and foremost Indianapolis Colts President Bill Polian is a businessman. And he’s one of the best in the National Football League. Don’t expect Polian to get too giddy over the extra bucks…
Bankrupt firm might close Elkhart operations
Atlantis Plastics Inc., an Atlanta-based plastics manufacturer that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Aug. 10, has notified the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that it might close three plants in the Elkhart area. Two of the plants are extruding operations and one specializes in injection molding. They employ a total of 170. The […]
International theater launching here
You heard it hear first–unless you’ve been hanging out in the halls of Butler University.
BU theater head John Green and prof/actress/director Diane Timmerman will be launching a new theater company next summer. Dedicated to bringing the best of world theatre artists…
NBC wins, Oprah seeks Olympians
This year’s Summer Olympics turned out to be a winner for NBC. Through Saturday night, NBC was averaging a 16.2 rating—meaning about 27.7 million viewers tuned in for its prime time coverage. Nationally, 28 percent of households on average tuned…
Paramount Tower plan shrinks
Developers are taking a new approach to a student housing project proposed for a 2.3-acre parking lot a few blocks east of the Central Canal….
Math bee might come to Indianapolis area
The mathematical version of the Scripps National Spelling Bee could be coming to Indianapolis, according to a spokesman for the organization that hosts the event. The not-for-profit National Math Bee is based in Birmingham, Ala. It was founded by S. David Vaillancourt, who moved to the Indianapolis area recently. A Carmel office address is listed […]