Skating Academy wins extension
The Indiana Worlds Skating Academy has agreed to a 9-month lease extension for its space at Pan Am Plaza. The organization will remain downtown at least until April 2008, said Academy Executive Director…
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Hicks to oversee Ball State’s Bureau of Business Research
Ball State University announced today that veteran economist Michael Hicks has been hired to direct its Bureau of Business Research. Hicks most recently was associate professor of economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. He replaces Patrick Barkey, now director […]
SafetyComm to be bought by Wichita company
Noblesville-based SafetyComm Solutions has agreed to be bought Paradigm Liaison Services LLC of Wichita, Kan., for an undisclosed price, according to Wichita Business Journal. SafetyComm offers safety awareness training programs for the oil and gas industries. Paradigm is a direct mail, public awareness campaign that targets households affected by pipelines or transmissions lines.
Steak n Shake Chili included in expanded recall
Ten-ounce cans of Steak n Shake chili have been included in an expanded recall of canned meat products blamed for botulism. Steak n Shake’s chili is made by Castleberry’s Food Co. of Augusta, Ga. The Food and Drug Administration last week recalled three hot dog chili sauces and seven other canned products made Castleberry’s after […]
Ethanol boom could expand Louisiana Dead Zone
Voracious demand for corn from ethanol plants springing up across Indiana and elsewhere in the Midwest is expected to swell this year the so-called Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico to a record 8,543 square miles-about the size of New Jersey. The zone at the end of the Mississippi River has little fish or […]
Regulator’s cheerleading chided as ‘inappropriate’: August event will promote health savings accounts
Not yet a believer in health savings accounts? Not to worry. The Indiana Department of Insurance is here to convert you. The insurance regulatory arm of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ administration is staging a symposium Aug. 3 to educate employers on the benefits of health savings accounts. Employers are increasingly pairing the tax-favored accounts, stuffed with a couple thousand dollars for each employee, with high-deductible health insurance as a lower-cost alternative to health plans with co-pays. Most employers also pay for…
Strides taken in life sciences, experts say: Industry panel: Thanks to ongoing efforts, Indiana has experienced serious progress as biomedical hotbed during last 5 years
Five leaders of Indiana’s life sciences industry offered their perspectives at the Indiana Convention Center June 26 as part of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Power Breakfast Series. The panelists: Mike Arpey, managing director of global investment bank Credit Suisse’s Asset Management Division and manager of the $73 million Indiana Future Fund for BioCrossroads, the state’s life sciences economicdevelopment initiative. Ron Ellis, co-founder, president and CEO of Lafayettebased Endocyte Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the treatment of cancer through receptor-targeted…
SPORTS: A race with half the wheels could be twice as fun
On July 16, I followed a caravan of about 200 motorcyclists from downtown to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As I climbed out of my car in the IMS parking lot, I heard AC-DC’s “Hell’s Bells” blasting through the loudspeakers. Just another reminder it’s not your father’s Speedway anymore. More to the point, it’s not Tony George’s grandfather’s Speedway anymore. Think about it. No sooner than George and his IMS team bid adieu to Formula One, they said hello to MotoGP,…
INVESTING: Caffeine-crazed investors may want to lay off Starbucks
You people must drink coffee. And a lot of it. That’s the only reason I can find that Starbucks would open another store within a few hundred yards of two existing locations. And I am not talking about Manhattan, where 12 million people walk around on any given business day. This is happening in downtown Indianapolis, where midweek foot traffic might reach a few hundred thousand. Here is what I wrote about Starbucks in mid-February: “The near-term risk in Starbucks…
Butler class to invest university endowment money
When a Butler University finance class starts investing in the stock market this fall, it won’t be Monopoly money that’s on
the line. In a three-year pilot program that is unique for a school of Butler’s size, a group of senior finance students will
use $1 million from the university’s endowment fund to invest.
Some fear exit opens door for patronage:
One improvement BAA made in Indianapolis never got much attention: It tried to weed out patronage jobs. Former airport board member Gordon St. Angelo thought it was one of the most significant benefits of taking airport management out of municipal hands. “I think a major improvement was the streamlining of what had been a semi-patronage type of program,” St. Angelo said, referring to BAA’s eliminating some nonproductive employees and practices. Municipal agencies such as airports’ becoming dumping grounds for politicians’…
Some Indiana colleges revolt against survey: U.S. News’ peer assessments called too subjective
The influential U.S. News & World Report college rankings come out next month, a rite of summer that causes many college administrators to groan. Some administrators in Indiana and elsewhere, in fact, have grown so disenchanted with the survey-and see it as so flawed-that they have decided they’ll no longer participate in at least part of it after this year. Nearly 100 private schools nationwide-including DePauw University and Earlham College in Indiana-are pulling out of the peer-assessment portion of the…
Government buoys office market: Downtown vacancy rate drops as agencies expand
Downtown’s anemic office market has shown signs of life over the last few months, but that doesn’t mean companies are taking more space and pushing occupancy rates higher. Credit goes to the government. State and local agencies absorbed roughly 175,000 square feet of office space during the second quarter of 2007, pushing the vacancy rate down to 15.9 percent, roughly a point lower than in the first quarter. The deals include 50,000 square feet for the Public Defender’s Office in…
RETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Chew-and-view eateries do not make a happy meal
Who asked for televisions to be installed in every restaurant in central Indiana? I’ve been to a lot of them, standing in lines, overhearing conversations with wait staff, chatting with the bartender, and never once, not a single time in my whole life, did any customer ever say anything like, “You know, what this joint really needs is a TV!” I can understand places where you’d expect to find TVs, and indeed where you go to watch TV on special…
Hotel tower planned by stadium, Lilly campus
After years of designing banks, churches and condo conversions, Prince/Alexander Architects Inc. is working
with unnamed partners on a plan to replace its headquarters with a $47 million, 24-story hotel and condo development called
West Merrill Tower.
A&E: Freshening the familiar at IMA
This week, two contemporary art exhibitions and a lawn full of bluegrass. If you believe art is about teaching us new ways to see the objects in our lives, then Emily Kennerk succeeds in her first museum show, “SuburbanNation.” If you believe art is also about form and design and harmony, it’s still a winner. And if you like to catch artists on the brink of career breakthroughs, this show is a must-see. The title notwithstanding, Kennerk’s big, minimal and…
EYE ON THE PIE: Taxes pay for what Hoosiers want
Good people, me included, have been making dumb statements about the property tax mess in Indiana. The problem is that we don’t know enough to talk or write intelligently on the topic. The result is that we can be led by our noses into an even worse mess. “Abolish the property tax!” some demand. Then what? Abolition of the property tax means raising some other taxes or fees, unless government spending on services decreases. The state has been urging counties…
VOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: Life sciences patents still alive after Supreme decision
In late April, the U.S. Supreme Court decided an important case-KSR International v. Teleflex Inc.-that addressed the test for determining whether a patent is obvious and therefore invalid. As is often the case, the court’s opinion set off considerable speculation about how broadly it should be interpreted: Does it establish a broad, general principle? Is it creating a trend that patents are more likely to be found obvious in the future? Or is its significance limited to the patent in…
Benicorp halts new sales to fix system woes: Complaints, losses mount at local health insurer
Locally based Benicorp Insurance Co. stunned health benefits professionals this month by distributing a simple memo. The small provider of group health insurance and benefits administration services announced a moratorium on new business until the company resolved problems with a new claims-processing system. “It’s highly unusual,” said Sheri Alexander, manager of employee benefits at Gregory & Appel, an Indianapolis insurance brokerage. More than 180 complaints have been filed against Benicorp since Jan. 1, according to records at the Indiana Department…
NOTIONS: A property tax sigh of relief and a reform wish list
The nightstand clock reads 5:17. Too early to wake up. But hey, I’ve been tossing and turning for hours, so why lie here any longer, pretending? The cause for this night’s insomnia is money. Money for two kids starting college. Money to replace the Money to paint the house. Money for employees’ salaries. Money for employees’ parking. Money for employees’ retirement. Money for employees’ health insurance. Money for their families’ health insurance. Money to get the yellow highway paint off…