Interestingly, while sports have been very, very good to the company, management didn’t set out to make arenas and fieldhouses one of their specialties. It just sort of happened.
Indianapolis will host the WNBA All-Star Game for the first time, marking an upswing in fortunes for the hometown Indiana Fever since the additions of top draft picks Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark.
Indianapolis leaders and event organizers are in a race against the clock to quell a recent spate of downtown violence before next weekend when the city hosts the WNBA All-Star Game and Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration, two of the biggest events on this year’s calendar.
Constantine, 34, oversees a staff of 11 full-time employees and three part-timers at 900 North Studios, which occupies 12,000 square feet in a building near the intersection of East Washington Street and South Keystone Avenue.
Tourism promoters hope a Georgia Street revamp—along with the adjacent Signia by Hilton scheduled to open late next year and other green-space plans—will draw more convention and event business.
The unemployment rate for degree holders ages 22 to 27 has reached its highest level in a dozen years, excluding the pandemic. Joblessness among that group is higher than the overall unemployment rate, and the gap is larger than it’s been in more than three decades.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp.-approved funding exceeds initial requests for the project, which would include a Shinola Hotel and a venue to be managed by Live Nation.
Nearby residents at Chatham Hills have started a petition opposing the development. They argue the project would be incompatible with neighborhood character, overburden infrastructure on 199th Street and harm the Monon Trail and surrounding green space.
Michelle Bowman, who was appointed to the Fed’s board of governors by Donald Trump in 2018, is the second high-profile official to express support for a potential July cut in as many days.
In addition to helping people who are homeless, the $8.1 million initiative could have an enormous impact on the economy downtown, where homelessness contributes to a feeling among many workers that the area isn’t safe.
