Local marketing firm Three-Sixty Group created an unprecedented ad campaign for USA Gymnastics, aimed at capitalizing on this month’s Olympics. The campaign debuts today with an eight-page insert in USA Today. USA Gymnastics…
Here’s the overall vision for the new Zing restaurant at 543 Indiana Ave. By the way, I’m told the galvanized steel has to cure for one year before they paint it black. The restaurant should open in a couple weeks….
Joe Theismann has been inside every single National Football League stadium. The former quarterback and TV announcer said yesterday that the new Lucas Oil Stadium is a one-of-a-kind.
“I’m not saying it’s one of the best…
Indianapolis Motor Speedway CEO Tony George has been named 2008 “Motorcyclist of the Year” by Motorcyclist, one of the most widely circulated motorcycle magazines in the U.S., for his efforts to bring the…
Indy is becoming a hotbed for chain stir-fry restaurants. A popular player, Flat Top Grill, has signed a letter of intent with developer Kite Realty Group Trust to open a new…
A local construction company specializing in apartment renovations is paying $80 million to acquire a huge local portfolio from the nation’s largest owner of apartment communities. Ardizzone Enterprises Inc. has agreed to buy 1,885 units from Denver-based Apartment Investment & Management Co., or AIMCO. The sale includes Bent Tree near 86th Street and Michigan Road, […]
Local developer Axia Urban is planning a three-building project that would give the corner of 22nd and Talbott streets a whole new look. The plans, submitted by…
Alternative-energy giant Horizon Wind Energy is opening an Indianapolis office focused on developing up to four new wind
farms in Indiana at a cost of more than $2 billion. The Houston-based company is renovating space on the
top floor of the 12-story J.F. Wild Building at 129 E. Market St., where it plans to manage development
of new wind farms in Indiana and Ohio.
A couple of restaurant updates today:
Workers are adding a wraparound balcony to Zing, a new small-plate restaurant in the old Payton’s Place at 543 Indiana Ave. Restaurateurs…
Developers White Lodging and REI Investments have made some changes to their plans for a Courtyard by Marriott and a SpringHill Suites next door to the JW Marriott convention hotel, at the request of city planners. Among the changes: signs…
The Steak n Shake Co. yesterday abruptly withdrew a request for a tax abatement worth more than $100,000 just before a final hearing. The unusual move suggests new management of the struggling chain already may have found an opportunity to cut costs – and the moves could affect the local headquarters. The package of incentives, […]
Indianapolis has won the dubious distinction of third place on a Forbes magazine list of the nation’s “Most In-Debt Households”. The magazine uses numbers from Moody’s Economy.com to establish which of…
Kite Realty Group Trust remains mum on its plans for the Rivers Edge shopping center just east of Clearwater Crossing, even in an application for rezoning filed this month. Kite…
The company city officials hired to handle general concession sales and premium dining at Lucas Oil Stadium could be sold before serving its first hot dog at the 63,000-seat venue set to open…
Brett Favre is returning to Green Bay today to play for the Packers. This after Packers brass offered to pay him $20 million to stay away.
This got me thinking. Which of the Indianapolis Colts that has retired or otherwise left …
A local developer known for its strip centers has stopped building new projects, scaled back its staff, and is trying to
unload several of its properties in an apparent bid to survive. Williams Realty Group earlier this year
shuttered its custom-home-building operation, DayMarc Homes, and now observers are wondering if owners Dave
Crockett and Marc Freije can keep the rest of Williams afloat.
Wireless-device distributor Brightpoint Inc. is moving its headquarters from Plainfield to northwest Indianapolis, near
where it was founded almost 20 years ago. The company, which has about 65 headquarters employees and about
1,000 workers in Indiana, plans to share a new building with software developer Interactive Intelligence
Inc. and engineering firm Woolpert Inc. along Interstate 465 north of West 71st Street.
Indiana University President Michael McRobbie announced this afternoon that the school has formed a 13-person search committee to find a replacement for athletic director Rick Greenspan. The search committee will include faculty members, administrators and alumni. The search committee will be…
Open-wheel race driver Paul Tracy may not be done this year on the Indy Racing League circuit. This morning, Walker Racing officials told IBJ they continue to work with Subway Restaurants and other…
Wireless-device distributor Brightpoint Inc. is moving its headquarters from Plainfield to northwest Indianapolis, near where it was founded almost 20 years ago. The company, which has about 65 headquarters employees and about 1,000 workers in Indiana, plans to share a new building with software developer Interactive Intelligence Inc. and engineering firm Woolpert Inc. along Interstate […]
