The city on Wednesday turned in a 900-page bid to host the 2018 Super Bowl that mentions the possibility of two new downtown hotels. Meanwhile, a Colts official said owner Jim Irsay plans to help lobby for the city’s bid at the May 19-21 NFL owners meeting.
A nine-room hotel along the Monon Trail in Broad Ripple has opened, while another downtown-area stalwart has closed.
Trend driven by hyper competition, pent-up demand from the recession, opening of JW Marriott.
The Fishers-based company lost the Comfort Suites City Centre near Lucas Oil Stadium in a bankruptcy reorganization filed by one of its affiliates, which owed a creditor about $12 million.
The 91-year-old Roberts Hotel building has undergone a $17 million renovation that created the 83-unit Lofts at Roberts development. The project was crucial to the city’s ability to attract a new downtown hotel.
Elected officials north of 96th Street advanced a bevy of public-private projects Monday during what I like to call their monthly meetingpalooza. Here’s a rundown on where things stand:
St. Louis-based Drury Hotels is proposing to build a 10-story, 304-room hotel and stand-alone restaurant on undeveloped property at the northeast corner of Meridian and 96th streets in Carmel. Construction could begin this spring.
Once the work is finished in about nine months, the Canterbury, which will be rebranded as a Le Meridien, should be able to better compete with other upscale downtown hotels, a consultant said.
The battle on Saturday between Ohio State and Michigan State, plus ESPN broadcasts and special events downtown, are expected to have a $15 million economic impact on Indy. That’s a vast improvement over the 2012 championship.
A high-profile local developer has bought the Illinois Building and is considering offers to convert the downtown landmark into a boutique hotel that could be the city’s first five-star lodge.
A couple told Indianapolis police that a man wearing a woman’s wig broke into their hotel room just after midnight Thursday and robbed them of $200. The incident took place at Intown Suites in the 2300 block of North Post Road. According to the report, the intruder used pepper spray on the man’s face before forcing his girlfriend to withdraw $200 from a nearby ATM.
The Residence Inn by Marriott in Fishers was robbed about 10:20 p.m. Thursday by an armed man driving a black SUV. A front-desk clerk at the hotel near 96th Street and Interstate 69 said the gunman ordered her to lie on the floor while he took an undisclosed amount of cash.
Reeling from the recession, Bharat Patel hopes to protect the hotels from foreclosure. Their lender is owed as much as $120 million, according to court filings.
The four-star establishment plans to overhaul all 13 floors and 573 guest rooms, beginning in November, as its competitors trigger similar upgrades.
Indianapolis lacks a five-star hotel, a fact some hospitality experts think could hurt the city’s chances of landing the 2018 Super Bowl. But there’s no consensus on whether the city should go more upscale.
Peyton Manning’s return to Indianapolis for Sunday night’s Indianapolis Colts game against the Denver Broncos has been a boon for hoteliers. According to Visit Indy, 99 percent of downtown’s 7,200 hotel rooms are sold out for Sunday night, a typically difficult night for hotels to fill rooms. Only about 1,600 of those can be chalked up to a convention. Sunday’s prime-time game will mark the first time Manning will play at Lucas Oil Stadium since joining the Broncos last season after 14 years with the Colts.
St. Louis-based Drury Hotels Co. is planning a 10-story hotel and stand-alone restaurant for 10 acres of undeveloped land overlooking Interstate 465 on the southern edge of Carmel.
Indianapolis officials hope to include plans for a new downtown luxury hotel in their bid for the 2018 Super Bowl, but they’re not sure all the pieces for a deal—potentially on Pan Am Plaza—can be put together before a bid presentation for 32 NFL owners in May.
A former office and warehouse is being converted into a modestly priced hotel along West 16th Street, about a block east of the Stadium Lofts project.
A shooting just before 10 a.m. Friday at Park Terrace Motel near Pendleton Pike and Post Road in Lawrence left two men in critical condition. Indianapolis Public Schools 98 and 102 were put on lockdown for less than an hour after the incident. Police are talking to a person of interest.
