DeHaan’s Christel House plots high school, foreign growth
Christel House Academy, a K-8 charter school, launched a campaign this year to raise money for a $5 million high school, with classes starting in the 2010-2011 school year.
Christel House Academy, a K-8 charter school, launched a campaign this year to raise money for a $5 million high school, with classes starting in the 2010-2011 school year.
If the Capital Improvement Board comes, hat in hand, looking for help, we trust the investing companies will carefully weigh the benefits they’ve derived from the city and its thriving downtown before delivering an answer.
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association says it needs more sales and marketing firepower to fill an expanded convention center and adjacent hotels. That means asking the city’s Capital Improvement Board-one of ICVA’s primary sources of funds-for a budget increase of up to 50 percent at the worst possible time. ICVA says it needs an […]
Growing up in Broad Ripple, Ted Miller was one of the “kids on the bridge,” who hung out where Guilford Avenue passes over the Central Canal. Miller was a Broad Ripple bartender during college, then left for a decade spent working in brewpubs in Seattle, Hong Kong, the Caribbean and Taiwan. But when he decided […]
When Stacie Floyd enrolled her daughter Kyli in kindergarten at Christel House Academy, she hoped Kyli would be able to earn a high school diploma there. Now, six years later, Floyd will get her wish. The academy, a K-8 charter school, launched a campaign this year to raise money for a $5 million high school, […]
Media pundits regularly call the current economic crisis the worst since the Great Depression. One of the few Indianapolis financial experts who’s actually qualified to make such a comparison is Donald C. “Danny” Danielson, the 89-year-old vice chairman of City Securities Corp. For Danielson, who still comes to work every business day, the Great Depression […]
Of this, that and the other while wondering if NBA Commissioner David Stern had just taken a hit off Michael Phelps’ bong when he proclaimed this to be “the golden age of basketball” during his all-star weekend news conference in Phoenix. OK, perhaps the marijuana reference is a little harsh, but the golden age of […]
The Capital Improvement Board, short of cash and doing whatever it can to remain solvent, is considering asking a group of original investors in Circle Centre mall to forgive $34 million they loaned the city toward the construction of Conseco Fieldhouse back in 1997. Fair enough. The companies that invested demonstrated they were civic-minded when […]
By most accounts, attendance is up at this year’s NFL Combine, and not because it’s being held for the first time in Lucas Oil Stadium.
Veteran NFL scout Chris Landry, who serves as a…
I have bad news for Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis Colts and Indianapolis Indians ticket buyers. By the time you buy tickets for next season’s games, you’ll likely be hit with a higher ticket tax….
Two large health insurers, including a unit of WellPoint Inc., are being investigated for charging more than California-mandated rates for last-resort health coverage affecting some 19,000 people. Blue Shield of California charged premiums as much as 55 percent above the California cap, while policies of Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of Indianapolis-based WellPoint, have been […]
The Salvation Army is rethinking a request to demolish an historic home it owns next to its headquarters at Michigan and Alabama streets. The not-for-profit…
Central Indiana home sales plunged nearly 16 percent last month, compared with a year earlier, according to a report released yesterday by Landrigan & Co., an Indianapolis residential real estate firm. Landrigan said January sales in 13 area counties, including Marion, totaled 1,177, down from 1,395 in the same month last year. The average sales […]
Central Indiana home sales plunged nearly 16 percent last month, compared with a year earlier, according to a report released yesterday by Landrigan & Co., an Indianapolis residential real estate firm. Landrigan said January sales in 13 area counties, including Marion, totaled 1,177, down from 1,395 in the same month last year. The average sales […]
Political fighting in the Indiana House has delayed at least temporarily a vote on a bill to help fix the state’s depleted unemployment insurance fund. The bill would raise taxes on employers to help balance the fund, which currently pays out millions of dollars more than it collects while relying on federal loans to issue […]
This week, emptying the notebook on recent work at the ISO, the Phoenix and the IRT.
Some local officials wrestling with the Capital Improvement Board’s $37 million deficit think part of the profit made by the Indianapolis Indians could be used to narrow that deficit, but Indian officials balk at that idea because they say they’ve already paid more than their share.
A recent spate of lawsuits, filed by a who’s who of Indianapolis businessmen, exposes cracks in Tim Durham’s veneer of opulence.
The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership—the parent of the BioCrossroads, TechPoint and Conexus industry cluster initiatives—let it be known last month that there would be a fourth leg to its economic development stool: clean technology.
The Jefferson Plaza renovation, which has been renamed Allen Plaza after its developer, will include restaurants, office space, condos, and is also working to achieve LEED environmental certification.