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Glut of local golf courses puts squeeze on owners: Demand has never quite met expectations

Tiger Woods, the world’s No. 1 golfer, has been great for the sport. But he has not helped attract enough players to the game here and across the country to keep pace with the numbers who are stepping away because of age. That means many local golf course owners are closing the books on another tough season. Some area owners have seen the number of rounds played decline 40 percent since 2000. Golf course values here, meanwhile, have slid about…

Expanded center luring new conventions: City visitor’s association lining up groups, events for new stadium, bigger center

Work on the Indiana Convention Center expansion is at least six months away, but numerous organizations already have reserved their space in anticipation of the larger venue. Construction on the $275 million project is expected to begin next summer and last until 2010. After completion, the center will have 747,370 square feet of tradeshow space, about 253,000 more than it has now, in addition to 183,000 square feet available at the new Lucas Oil Stadium. The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors…

Billboards enter digital era

Remote-controlled digital billboards are revolutionizing the outdoor advertising industry nationwide, but a city prohibition
against the medium is preventing a rollout here.

High-rise in works near canal

A strong demand for student housing downtown is driving a $40 million plan for a high-rise apartment tower a couple of blocks
east of the Central Canal. The developer, a partnership of Fishers-based Paramount Realty Group and Indianapolis-based Alboher
Development Co. Inc., hopes to build the 16-story Paramount Tower on a OneAmerica parking lot.

SPORTS: With the football Hoosiers, it’s one play at a time

I just got an e-mail from a good friend inquiring about where (his speculation was the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.) the Indiana Hoosiers would play their first bowl game since 1993. I responded with the same line I’ve repeated often. When it comes to Indiana football, I never look further ahead than the next play. It’s a lesson I learned 40 years ago, in 1967. I was fresh out of high school. It always was my dream to go…

EXCLUSIVE: $480M downtown project in works

A development team is finalizing plans for a $480 million mixed-use project that calls for condos, as many as three hotels, a theater and 175,000 square feet of retail space just south of downtown. The project, Legends District-SODO, could be one of the largest private developments in the city’s history. It would sprawl over 11 […]

A downtown transformation

A development team is finalizing plans for a $480 million mixed-use project that calls for condos, as many as three hotels, a theater and 175,000 square feet…

Steak n Shake critics buy billboards

A Texas investment group that thinks The Steak n Shake Co. has been mismanaged is taking its discontent to the masses by buying billboard space in the Indianapolis area. The Lion Fund, which owns more than 5 percent of Steak n Shake, plans to say on the billboards that it wants shareholders to elect two […]

New Jersey distributor scouting Indy area

Medco Health Solutions, a pharmaceutical distributor headquartered in Franklin Lakes, N.J., is seeking locations in the Indianapolis area where it can build a distribution center that would employ hundreds. A site put forward by Indianapolis near the downtown canal has been passed over because it wasn’t large enough, according to a source familiar with the […]

Will ATA leave Indy entirely?

IBJ reporter Chris Oâ??Malley reported last weekend that ATA Airlinesâ?? parent company has quietly moved its
headquarters to Peachtree City, Ga. Global Aero Logistics no longer flies out of Indianapolis International
Airport, but it has other operations here that employ…

Wish Fund snagged in subprime crisis

Indianapolis-based Indiana Children’s Wish Fund has been caught in the national subprime mortgage lending crisis. The small not-for-profit, which grants wishes to terminally ill children, filed an arbitration claim after an investment it had in an intermediate-bond fund lost about $50,000 between late June and late September on an initial investment of $222,812. The bond […]

Arcadia sustains loss, sees revenue rise

Arcadia Resources Inc., the Detroit-area company that last month announced it would move its headquarters to Indianapolis, reported a $9.2-million loss in its second quarter ended Sept. 30. The parent of Arcadia HealthCare had a $735,619 loss in the same period last year. Continuing operations accounted for $4.5 million of the most recent loss, while […]

Brightpoint profit, revenue up on acquisitions

Plainfield-based Brightpoint Inc. posted profit of $13 million for the third quarter, a 47-percent increase from a year earlier. Revenue of $1.2 billion in the period ended Sept. 30 was up 86 percent. The wireless device distributor said results were boosted by its first-quarter acquisitions of Denmark-based Dangaard Telecom and Texas-based CellStar, as well as […]

Royalties, fees propel Noble Roman’s profit

Noble Roman’s Inc. yesterday reported third-quarter profit shot up 58.2 percent, to $2.1 million, on a rise in royalties and fees for the Noble Roman’s Pizza and Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs restaurants it franchises. The Indianapolis company has been on a furious expansion spree-having signed a total of 24 territories to area developers, a move […]

Fresh Market rendering

Several people have asked about renderings of the new Fresh Market at 54th and College. The best I can do for now is this color elevation. The top image is the view from 54th Street and shows the entrance for…

Angie’s List cans 38 workers in broad shakeup

A sweeping internal assessment at Angie’s List has resulted in 38 of the company’s 382 employees being shown the door in the past few days. Most of the workers given pink slips were in sales, although others were in operations, marketing and other areas, said spokeswoman Cheryl Reed. Based at 1030 E. Washington St. on […]

Indiana jobs moving to other states

A study by the Indiana Business Research Center indicates the flow of jobs from Indiana to overseas locations has shifted and is now moving to other states, particularly Michigan. From early 2004 to the middle of this year, the state lost 44,808 jobs to mass layoffs, said the center, which operates through the Kelley School […]

New life at 71st and Binford

The once-blighted corner of 71st Street and Binford Boulevard continues to attract redevelopment attention, thanks in large part to the efforts of neighborhood group Binford Redevelopment And Growth, or BRAG. Developers plan to…

L.A. Fitness to locate on 146th Street

Carmel‘s first L.A. Fitness club plans to open in a 45,000-square-foot freestanding building to be built at 2700 E. 146th St. in Carmel, according to the landlord, Terre Haute-based Thompson Thrift. The building, which is leased to L.A. Fitness for 15 years, will be located in Cool Creek Village, a 79,800-square-foot mixed-use development. The Carrollton, […]

Airport casts net for two sculptors

The Indianapolis Airport Authority is looking for a few good sculptors-two, in fact. The authority is asking artists to submit proposals for two sculptures to go in the north garden at the new midfield terminal. Proposals are due Dec. 21, with one sculpture scheduled for installation in late 2008 and another in 2009. The sculptures […]