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The owners of a 1.3-acre parking lot southeast of Meridian and South streets have put the property up for sale, apparently putting an end to the dream…
The owners of a 1.3-acre parking lot southeast of Meridian and South streets have put the property up for sale, apparently putting an end to the dream…
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has revised his plan to help the city’s struggling stadium agency out of a projected $47 million deficit for next year. The new proposal to rescue the Capital Improvement Board is similar to others brought to the Indiana Legislature, only this one does not include an additional $13 million in spending […]
Budget hotel chain Red Roof Inn Inc. has defaulted on $361.4 million of mortgage debt, a rating agency that tracks mortgage defaults said yesterday.The hotel chain fell 30 days delinquent on four securitized loans for which the collateral was 131 Red Roof properties, said Frank A. Innaurato, managing director of Realpoint LLC, a debt rating […]
Buildings on Monument Circle and its immediate surroundings would be protected from demolition and inappropriate alteration under plans being drawn to create a new downtown historic district. The Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, a unit of city government, is working on creation of the Monument Circle-Downtown Historic District using $15,000 in funding from the Central Indiana […]
Jobs created by the new manufacturing plant have been offset by losses elsewhere in the community, and related development
remains scarce. But local officials remain optimistic about Honda’s long-term impact.
This small town between Indianapolis and Cincinnati was hardly ailing when it landed the economic development prize of the decade-a new Honda plant. Back in June 2006, Decatur County’s unemployment rate was a healthy 4.2 percent, lower than the state’s as a whole. With Honda’s promise of 2,000 jobs by 2010, a boom seemed just […]
Just Marketing International’s Zak Brown has found himself in the middle of the fight between Formula One teams and organizers. In London the past week and this weekend for the British Grand Prix…
The number of homeless families in the state’s most-populous county grew by 78 percent this year, an official count shows, but the actual number is several times higher, an advocacy group said yesterday. Meanwhile, the total of homeless individuals has declined. The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention said a federally required homeless count on […]
Lucas Oil Stadium has made the cut of stadiums to be considered for a U.S. bid to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup soccer tournaments. The list this week of possible sites to be included in the U.S. bid was trimmed from the original 58 candidates released in April to 45 sites in 37 […]
A proposal to help a struggling Indianapolis sports board hit a legislative speed bump yesterday, while a plan to move a Gary casino seems to have reached a dead end. The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee made several changes to Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ plan to help the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, which runs […]
Lucas Oil Stadium has made the cut of stadiums to be considered for a U.S. bid to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup soccer tournaments. The list this week of possible sites to be included in the U.S. bid was trimmed from the original 58 candidates released in April to 45 sites in 37 […]
A proposal to help a struggling Indianapolis sports board hit a legislative speed bump today, while a plan to move a Gary casino seems to have reached a dead end. The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee made several changes to Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ plan to help the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, which runs […]
Lucas Oil Stadium has made the short list for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. Well, the one-year-old retractable-roof stadium actually made a shortened list.
The list this week of possible…
A powerful Indiana House committee is scheduled to meet today to discuss possible solutions for a cash-strapped Indianapolis sports agency. A Ways and Means meeting this afternoon is expected to focus on a way to fix the Capital Improvement Board, which runs the city’s convention center and professional sports stadiums. The bill as proposed in […]
Indianapolis is more than up to the task of hosting the Super Bowl.
Special session will be longer than all had hoped before because of multiple unresolved issues
2010 Final Four launches Web site Ten months from tipoff of the 2010 men’s NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis, the local organizing committee and NCAA have launched a Web site for the event at www.ncaa.com/finalfour. The 2010 NCAA Men’s Final Four is scheduled for April 3 and 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium. The stadium hosted […]
Developer Brown Investments has reached terms with the owners of 43 of 49 homes in the North Meridian Heights neighborhood
in Carmel. Browning plans to demolish the homes to make way for a $100 million commercial development over 17 acres.
Residents of North Meridian Heights in Carmel watched for years as development inched closer to their neighborhood of 1950s ranch-style homes on spacious lots. St. Vincent Carmel Hospital opened to the north, upscale condos sprouted to the east, and a $100 million office, hotel and retail project called Meridian & Main began taking shape to […]
“I’m biased,” Hizzoner said recently, “but I think Indianapolis winning the Super Bowl bid in 2012 was nothing short of spectacular.” That makes two of us, Mayor Ballard. Both in bias and thought. It was indeed a spectacular victory for our city on that May day in 2008, capstone of a 30-year effort to use […]