It could get expensive. Ohio-based Franklin University’s decision to open a campus in Castleton sets up the potential for significant name confusion with Franklin College, the liberal arts school 30 minutes south of Indianapolis. One marketing expert predicts both schools will be forced to pump up their advertising budgets to make sure their audiences understand […]
Have some theater time on an upcoming business trip to New York? Here are three shows from the current season Broadway season. “Hair,” the self-proclaimed “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” is back on Broadway some 40 years after its take-theater-by-storm original production. And I’m very pleased to report that the musical groundbreaker’s latest incarnation isn’t a […]
Columbus, Ohio-based Franklin University has signed a lease in the Allison Pointe Office Park on the northeast side of Indianapolis and plans to offer classes beginning this fall, the college said today. The 107-year-old school, which has enrollment of 11,000 at its main campus in Columbus and three suburban locations, announced April 21 that it […]
The anchor tenant in the Binford Medical-Professional Office Complex at the corner of 65th Street and Binford Boulevard has closed temporarily, citing a lack of other tenants in the high-profile medical building. The shut-down is the latest in a string of setbacks for what was to have been a five-building, $29 million development. The Binford […]
Indianapolis residents have been passionate about Ritter’s handmade frozen custard ever since it debuted almost two decades
ago. But while the ice cream is sweet, the story of the former mom-and-pop company’s attempts to morph into something grander
is decidedly bitter. Now, New York-based TruFoods, which bought the company in May 2008, is trying to get the formula
right.
This St. Patrick’s Day, Tru-Foods LLC executive Gary Occhiogrosso got an object lesson in why his company’s acquisition of Ritter’s Frozen Custard either could be a great opportunity or a royal pain-or both. He visited the chain’s ill-starred 10450 Allisonville Road location on a blustery March day. The shop, which sits in the middle of […]
Last week, I offered a pair of ticket to see Sandi Patty and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Aug. 11 at the Indiana State Fair. I also asked you tell me your favorite Sandi, Sandy, Patti, or Patty. Here are some of your responses – besides the numerous Patti LuPone, Sandy-from-“Grease” and Peppermint Patty picks: Sandra […]
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American
Plays.
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. There is no logical reason for a man to be accidentally indentured to a pirate king because of a minor error…and stay on board for years. There is no logical […]
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. There is no logical reason for a man to be accidentally indentured to a pirate king because of a minor error…and stay on board for years. There is no logical […]
This week, the IMA celebrates design, the IRT attempts a rewritten French farce, and the Phoenix puts its stamp on “Mauritius.”
This week, the IMA celebrates design, the IRT attempts a rewritten French farce, and the Phoenix puts its stamp on “Mauritius.” Interactivity is a buzzword in museums today. But, for me, the best exhibition interactivity doesn’t come through carefully placed computer kiosks, you-try-it activities or seek-andfind activity pages. It happens when you see a painting, […]
This week, the IMA celebrates design, the IRT attempts a rewritten French farce, and the Phoenix puts its stamp on “Mauritius.” Interactivity is a buzzword in museums today. But, for me, the best exhibition interactivity doesn’t come through carefully placed computer kiosks, you-try-it activities or seek-andfind activity pages. It happens when you see a painting, […]
A Brooklyn-based real estate investment firm is spending $55 million to purchase a local apartment portfolio from one of the country’s largest owners of multi-family housing. Hampshire Properties LLC purchased six apartment communities from Denver-based Apartment Investment & Management Co., known as AIMCO. The sale totals more than 2,100 units, including the Westlake and Wind […]
The federal government is hoping the third time’s the charm for a newFBI field office in Indianapolis. The U.S. General Services Administration said today it has awarded thedeal to Ohio-based Fedcar Company Ltd., which plans to build a$39.8-million campus on 14 acres near Interstate 465 and AllisonvilleRoad in Castleton. The deal has been a bureaucratic […]
The federal government is hoping the third time’s the charm for a new FBI field office in Indianapolis. The U.S. General Services Administration said today it has awarded the deal to Ohio-based Fedcar Company Ltd., which plans to build a $39.8-million campus on 14 acres near Interstate 465 and Allisonville Road in Castleton. The deal […]
The city’s Metropolitan Development Commission voted unanimously, 8 to 0, last week to allow a crematorium to be built near the corner of Allisonville Road and 82nd Street. Harry W. Moore Funeral Care will now go ahead with plans to build the one-story, 1,600-square-foot crematory, said David L. Ring, who owns the funeral home. The […]
Rolls-Royce PLC’s new 10-year, $400 million agreement to produce helicopter engines brings another surge of business to the company’s Indianapolis manufacturing plant. Rolls-Royce said today it will supply Fort Worth, Texas-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. with Model 250 engines for Bell 206 and 407 helicopters for most of the next decade. It was the second […]
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…
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.
