Indianapolis Conrad hotel nabs top honor
Conrad Indianapolis and West Baden Springs Hotel have been named to Condé Nast Traveler’s
Gold List 2010.
Conrad Indianapolis and West Baden Springs Hotel have been named to Condé Nast Traveler’s
Gold List 2010.
Despite my American bias, there’s no doubt that soccer is the world’s game.
Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl run giving downtown hotels, restaurants and retailers a multi-million-dollar boost.
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association said Thursday that it has received a $5.4 million gift to help market the
city’s tourism and convention industries. The grant comes from a foundation headed by the developer of the Marriott Place
hotel complex under construction downtown.
Locally based The Precedent Cos. in recent months has landed build-to-suit deals for locally based Mays Chemical Co. and Elona
Biotechnologies Inc.
A vacant former Country Inn & Suites along Interstate 69 just north of I-465 is getting a new owner with plans to reopen
the 85-room property in the Spring.
The Fairfield Inn & Suites on West Washington Street downtown will open Wednesday. The hotel is the first of four comprising
the 1,600-room Marriott Place project to welcome guests.
Security measures for Sunday’s Super Bowl will be extreme, and somewhat akin to those at airports, according to officials.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano gave her seal of approval during a tour of Sun Life Stadium in Miami on
Monday. The security team features federal, state, and local officers, as well as bomb-sniffing dogs at stadium checkpoints.
The Colts have plenty of eyes watching over them, including a team of deputies to patrol the team’s hotel and a motorcade
for traveling around the city.
The big question for many politicians isn’t about ethics. Rather, it’s whether to shell out $800 per ticket, plus hotel costs
and airfare.
We can promise, at game time, a perfect environment: 70 degrees and dry.
A Ball State architect thinks Indianapolis residents will like what they see in the new J.W. Marriott hotel downtown and beat
drums for more interesting buildings.
A side-by-side look at infrastructure and visitor numbers.
Once considered a destination only eight months of the year, Indianapolis—with its compact downtown and indoor walkways—is
emerging as a convention powerhouse even during cold weather.
The 1,000-room J.W. Marriott isn’t even finished and support already is emerging for a second downtown hotel that
would rival it in size.
Multimedia products maker World Media Group Inc. will invest more than $2 million to expand its manufacturing operations on
the east side of Indianapolis, increasing its workforce by 20 percent.
Thieves broke into dozens of cars parked at two hotels on Indianapolis’ west side early Thursday morning. Police say they
hit at least 30 cars at Crowne Plaza Hotel near Indianapolis International Airport, and about 20 other vehicles at a nearby
hotel. The break-ins happened between midnight Wednesday and 4 a.m. Thursday.
The essential issue is to get out of the cycle where governments plan to spend money they don’t know they
will receive.
Hoosier businesses have
stepped up for the citizens of Haiti, the island nation that was literally shaken to pieces by a massive earthquake Jan. 12.