An initiative to bring 10 of the biggest travel tour operators in the United Kingdom to this year’s Indianapolis 500 could
be a first step in bolstering business at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, area golf courses and Indianapolis International
Airport, where city boosters hope to establish direct flights to London.
Three Hoosier universities—Notre Dame, Marian and Indiana—are moving to launch programs that seek to apply MBA-style training to the unique demands of schools.
The $16.5 million worship auditorium that Northview Church in Carmel opened last month may be the last major church-related
project completed in central Indiana for years. Although many projects were finished before the recession, churches, which
usually pay for much of construction in cash, struggled to collect pledges.
Speedway businessman Tim Hicks will launch the Indianapolis Drive next fall as part of the ABA’s 11th season.
It’s not too early to think about next season at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and more.
I am a sucker for a good story. During the NCAA men’s basketball
championship last month, when that ball, or as the CBS color commentator Clark Kellogg called it, the “pumpkin,”
arched into the air from the hands of central Indiana’s now second-most-famous “babyface,” I thought, “This
is it!”
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has released personal-income data for each county in the nation. The Indianapolis area
did not fare well.
Unfathomable just a decade ago, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is trimming demands on hospitality packages in a scramble
to fill vacancies and preserve what IMS officials call "a major profit center."
The Indianapolis-based health insurer announced Tuesday afternoon it will be the first company to adopt stricter standards
on canceling
policies, which are contained in the health reform bill passed in March.
Chad Priest, a registered nurse and attorney, has been appointed CEO of Managed Emergency Surge for Healthcare
Inc., which aims to expand the capacity for central Indiana to provide medical and surgical care in the event of a disaster.
Priest has been practicing health law at the Baker & Daniels law firm in Indianapolis. He also is an adjunct instructor
at the Indiana University School of Nursing.
Dr. Eileen Thomason, Dr. Jason Reiser, Dr. Richard Rejer, and Dr. Brian Miles—all
part of Southeast Family Medicine—have joined the St. Francis Medical Group, which has grown to more than 120 doctors.
Marie Swanson, IUPUI’s associate vice chancellor for public health, has been appointed to an advisory
panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focused on toxic substances.
Alliance Home Health Care, a skilled provider of senior home health care, announced that Deborah Rood, a
registered nurse, has joined the company as its clinical director.
Indianapolis-based Harlan Laboratories Inc. has named Hans Thunem its new CEO. Thunem was previously president
of research models and services at Harlan, a contract research organization that focuses on animal testing. Harlan’s
previous CEO was Steve Sullivan, who joined Harlan from Covance Inc. in 2006. Sullivan stepped down in December.
Tim Hicks promises to ask the city for no money while trying to make an ABA professional basketball team flourish in Indianapolis.
The Ben Davis graduate will launch his new team, the Indiana Drive, next fall.
The 25-year-old Prince/Alexander architecture firm is on the path to being acquired by Dallas-based REES Associates, an employee-owned
firm with 120 architects.
A big Emmis Communications Corp. shareholder believes the $90 million deal CEO Jeff Smulyan unveiled Monday morning to
take the company private is unlikely to get derailed—even though it’s worth far less than a takeover offer Smulyan
failed to get through his board four years ago.
JS Acquisition Inc., the company Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan has established to complete the acquisition, would purchase all shares
of publicly traded Emmis for about $90 million, according to Monday morning’s announcement.
The two largest U.S. health insurance companies, UnitedHealth, based in Minnetonka, Minn., and WellPoint Inc., based in Indianapolis,
sell Advantage plans.
The waterworks board’s plan to hire outside consultants to study the proposed sale of Indianapolis Water could delay the deal.
The upstart developer of a device to help doctors choose the right-sized stent to prop open clog-prone arteries has brought
aboard former Guidant Corp. executives, including Bill McConnell. Their regulatory and marketing expertise could help FlowCo Inc. bring its artery-measurement
product to market as soon as 2011.
There may be a solution to the Capital Improvement Board’s financial problems, described in [the April 19] IBJ,
that are further complicated by the Pacers wanting to renegotiate their Conseco agreement.
