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This week, William Conner on stage at the IRT and another chorus of “Tomorrow,” courtesy of Beef & Boards. If you’ve spent any time at Conner Prairie, whether on a school field trip or a family outing, you may have realized that you don’t see the living history museum’s namesake, William Conner, anywhere nearby. That’s because, […]
Of this and that while wondering what happened to the month of May: Rex Early, former Marion County Republican chairman, is the author of one of my all-time-favorite lines. Said Rex, “It’s a mighty thin pancake that doesn’t have two sides.” Early even wrote a book using that as the title. So it was that […]
It’s no secret that Mexican eateries have boomed in Indy over the last 10 years. Whereas Acapulco Joe’s and El Sol De Tala used to be about it when you craved a tortilla stuffed with anything, now there are intersections with multiple Mexican options, from Chipotle to Adobo Grill and dozens of mom-and-pop joints. With […]
Electronics retailer HHGregg Inc. has snapped up at least a dozen former Circuit City and Linens & Things locations in six states and is eyeing more of the empty big boxes in an opportunistic move toward expansion. The locally based chain with 111 stores has made no secret of its plans to reach for the […]
From the outside, Suite 1000 of the Uptown Office Complex looks like any of the strip-center businesses clustered between Castleton and Fishers. But behind the glass door, copper and steel teem with life as Hoosier sweet corn is heated, mixed and filtered on its way from the silo to the saloon. The small space, with […]
A lot of people owe money these days, and some of the agencies hired to pursue them are resorting to old- school tactics to collect. Things like calling at all hours, threatening to have debtors jailed or fired, or employing abusive language. “They’re turning up the pressure,” said Indianapolis attorney Steve Halbert, who defends collection […]
I really like: a) having something all about me, b) doing something on my own time, and c) having some sort of idea what’s going on. There are, of course, a couple of problems: a) most things aren’t about me, b) time is rarely my own, and c) there’s so much going on in the […]
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…
