The Indianapolis Civic Theatre could take as long as 20 years to pay the $10 million fee it agreed to as part of a deal to
relocate to the state-of-the-art Regional Performing Arts Center in Carmel.
Conner Prairie is ending 2009 in relatively better health than last year, as attendance and revenues are up at the same time
donations are lagging, executives of the living history museum said Wednesday.
The 95-year-old Indianapolis staple will uproot for new performing arts center.
Indianapolis Civic Theatre will move from the campus of Marian University to the Regional Performing Arts Center under construction
in Carmel. The theater and Carmel Redevelopment Commission released a joint statement Tuesday announcing a long-term deal
that calls for the Civic to pay $10 million to be the center’s primary occupant.
Win tickets to a sneak preview of the new Wes Anderson film.
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra CEO Simon Crookall said he’s expecting a smaller but still significant gap of $1.3 million
in the 2010 budget year.
The Indianapolis Art Center laid off its full-time curator and cut one other position this month in an effort to pay down
short-term credit and deal with reduced income from its classes.
Hat-maker Emily Clark faces challenges with her nearly lost art.
I’ve driven by countless strip-mall eateries without giving them a second glance, but there always has been something
about Carmel’s Mangia! that has drawn my attention. Maybe it’s the exclamation
point.
This week, thoughts on exhibitions at Evan Lurie Gallery in Carmel and a new revue at the Cabaret at the Connoisseur Room.
The cash-strapped, half-vacant City Market is playing legal hardball with five current or former tenants that are behind
on rent, a move that’s led to the imminent eviction of Constantino’s Market Place.
It seems like just yesterday that Matt Painter was playing for Purdue University basketball. Now he’s the Boilers’ coach, and he has emerged from
the long shadow of his mentor and predecessor, Gene Keady.
A summer advertising campaign launched by the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association helped produce more visitors
and dollars for central Indiana, even though the organization spent less this year marketing the region.
Work to repair and renovate the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis is taking longer than expected.
The company that owns two casinos along Indiana’s Lake Michigan shore has been declared in default on nearly $80 million in
debt by its lenders.
Consumers are using technology to look for the greatest value, not necessarily the lowest price.
Indianapolis Zoo attendance is down in 2009, but poor weather may be to blame as much as the weak economy.
Hoosiers are shrugging off hard times and heading out on vacation, so much so that some of the state’s top attractions actually
are seeing attendance boomlets. But the travelers are sticking close to home, and they’re clenching their dollars tightly.
Behind every convention that rolls into Indianapolis is a tedious sales effort as intense and invisible as a riptide. Sometimes
the sale cycle lasts as long as six years.
