Hotel Broad Ripple developer planning ‘green’ features
A local company is finalizing plans for a 22-room hotel between Westfield Boulevard and the Monon Trail in Broad Ripple.
A local company is finalizing plans for a 22-room hotel between Westfield Boulevard and the Monon Trail in Broad Ripple.
A desk clerk at the Plainfield Budget Inn said an armed man tried to rob the hotel Friday morning at about 4 a.m. The clerk told the man there was no cash in the drawer because the hotel only accepts credit cards during overnight hours. Instead, the man grabbed the clerk’s purse from behind the counter and fled the scene in a red vehicle, possibly a Pontiac Grand Am or Oldsmobile Alero.
Police say they arrested a woman after she admitted to crashing a sport-utility vehicle through the side wall of a hotel on Indianapolis’ west side at about 3:45 a.m. Thursday and then leaving the scene. Police searched the area and found the SUV and the woman at a nearby apartment. She was arrested for hit-and-run. No one was hurt.
Unite Here has high hopes, but the industry fears its cost advantage would erode.
The city put up $25 million for the hotel, restaurant and condo development at the corner of Washington and Illinois streets, including $3.75 million in exchange for the economic equivalent of an 8-percent stake.
Minneapolis-based hotel chain AmericInn has purchased a Holiday Inn along Interstate 69 in Fishers, giving the company its first Indiana location.
As revenue per room falls, some hotels outside the center city are going on the auction block.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lawsuit against the owners of a Hampton Inn on the east side charges that the hotel treated black housekeepers unfairly.
A pizza-delivery driver was pepper-sprayed and robbed in a west-side motel parking lot early Wednesday morning, Indianapolis police say. The incident, which involved a Papa John’s driver, occurred in the Dollar Inn parking lot along Crawfordsville Road near Speedway just after 1 a.m. The perpetrator got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The city plans to issue bonds and use tax-increment financing to fund the $150M project, which also will include 320 high-end apartments and 40,000 square feet of retail space. Construction should begin this year.
Conrad General Manager Greg Tinsley says the hotel plans to reopen the high-end spa by Oct. 1, after receiving
notification Friday that it had closed.
Indianapolis-based Browning Investments plans to turn the former Executive Inn back over to the city after being unable to
arrange financing for the project.
Convention center is sparking optimism, Schahet says, but overall market is still soft.
Indianapolis developer Buckingham Cos. is in discussions to build a mixed-use development that could include apartments, shops,
office space, and a hotel and conference center.
Dora operates more than 20 hotels, including five in downtown Indianapolis and two adjacent to Indianapolis International
Airport.
Unite Here, a Chicago-based hotel workers union, has been trying to organize employees at the Westin Indianapolis, Hyatt Regency
Indianapolis and Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites.
General Hotels Corp. will manage five more hotels in Indiana and Ohio.
Hotel occupancy rates in the last two years have plunged nationally and locally to levels not seen in decades, putting a number
of hotels at or near the financial breaking point. But relief finally appears to be on the way.
A hotel employee has filed a civil lawsuit against Indianapolis Colts defensive tackle Eric Foster. The 22-year-old claims
she was working at the University Place Hotel on the IUPUI campus when Foster sexually attacked her the morning of the NFL’s
American Football Conference championship game in January. She said she reported the incident to hotel security, then called
the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, which referred her to IUPUI Police. Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi
decided not to pursue criminal charges against Foster. The alleged victim’s attorney said the criminal investigation
was botched.