Members of an exclusive Noblesville golf club are worried the operation might fold under financial pressure, but the facility’s operators say a predicted cash infusion will keep golf balls flying this spring. Obtaining the cash needed to keep The Sagamore Club operating could be a tall order in this rough economy, which has seen courses […]
A local group headlined by the creator of the movies “Hoosiers” and “Rudy” is spearheading an effort to bring the story of
the very first Indianapolis 500 to the silver screen.
In May, Indianapolis narrowly won the right to host the 2012 Super Bowl, beating out Phoenix and Houston at the National Football
League owners’ meeting in Atlanta.
Though few knew what to think when Don Welsh announced in June he was leaving Seattle to become Indianapolis Convention &
Visitors Association CEO, he’s shown he didn’t come here to simply wind down his career.
The woman chosen as CEO of the city’s Super Bowl host committee isn’t exactly a household name, but those who hired her think
she’ll make Indianapolis the best host city ever.
The $720 million Lucas Oil Stadium opened in August, just in time for the Indianapolis Colts’ season. Indianapolis International Airport’s $1.1 billion midfield
terminal, meanwhile, took off in November.
Long-range plans for IUPUI unveiled this month call for the demolition of the Michael A. Carroll Track & Field Stadium and
Indianapolis Tennis Center, raising questions about the future of sporting events held at those venues that have generated
tens of millions of dollars in economic activity for the city.
The Indianapolis AdClub is getting another face-lift, and this time some heavy hitters are coming in to make the changes.
Indy Racing League and Indianapolis Motor Speedway are planning staff cuts, likely before year end, to become more efficient during a difficult economic environment, according to sources within both organizations who are familiar with the decisions. The number of layoffs was not immediately available. The IMS also has instituted a hiring freeze. The sources referred […]
Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials are looking at a plan to build a new hotel, possibly with a new IMS Hall of Fame Museum, sources close to the Speedway say. IMS officials announced yesterday that the Brickyard Crossing Inn, which is adjacent to the fabled race track, has closed because it would be too costly to […]
What started as a dispute over a pair of digital billboards in Lawrence has evolved into a battle with broad implications
for Marion County.
Fueled by a $740,000 regional advertising campaign, local tourism spending went sky high even as the economy was in a free
fall.
A central Indiana consortium of 128 hotels offering 14,000 rooms at prices below market rates was key in securing a deal to bring the FFA National Convention to Indianapolis in six of 12 years from 2016 to 2024. FFA officials announced at Conseco Fieldhouse this morning that Indianapolis and Louisville will hold the convention in […]
Indianapolis has been given the right to host six lucrative national conventions for the National FFA Organization between 2013 and 2024, according to a source familiar with an announcement scheduled to be made later this morning. After finishing its current seven-year run in Indianapolis in 2012, Louisville will host the convention in 2013, 2014 and 2015. […]
Marian College wants to take over operation of the Major Taylor Velodrome from Indy Parks and make the facility a hub for
alternative transportation and Midwestern cycling.
While many central Indiana manufacturers are feeling the pinch of the downturned economy, locally based Sign Craft Industries
Inc. is posting record growth this year and projecting another robust year in 2009.
Indianapolis Star Publisher Michael Kane told staffers yesterday the equivalent of 52 full-time staffers are being laid off to shore up the company’s bottom line. Twenty full-time positions in the newspaper’s editorial department were terminated, including Susan Guyett, who pens the Talk of our Town column; cultural writers Whitney Smith and Chris Lloyd; and Abe […]
The Indy Racing League suddenly finds itself at odds with Midwestern farmers over a decision to make a Brazilian consortium
its ethanol supplier starting next year.
Young & Laramore is making what it says are “significant” staff cuts in the wake of losing the Steak n Shake account. Though Y&L CEO Paul Knapp declined to say how many of the firm’s 66 employees have been or would be terminated, industry sources pegged the number at about 20. After 18 years with […]
Chip Ganassi’s NASCAR team is teaming with Dale Earnhardt Inc. where Max Siegel has served as president of global operations
since early 2007, and the former Baker & Daniels attorney may be among many laid off in the merger.
