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Cafe Patachou owner Martha Hoover will open her seventh local restaurant tomorrow at the upscale Clay Terrace shopping center in Carmel. The eatery is Hoover’s second French-themed Petite Chou. The other is on Westfield Boulevard in Broad Ripple. The Clay Terrace location initially will serve breakfast and lunch. Dinner will be available starting April 8, […]
The Indianapolis Airport Authority has tapped the head of Jacksonville, Fla.’s airport authority as its new executive director and CEO. John D. Clark III also serves as chairman of the Airports Council International North America, the primary trade group for airports. Clark will replace John Kish, who will head the redevelopment of a municipal stadium […]
Indianapolis finds itself smack in the middle of a big national trend, thanks to President Obama’s stimulus package.
The stimulus allocates $31 billion to help doctors wire their offices to send information digitally, with the goal of improving health care and…
Slowly but surely, Indiana Pacers officials are releasing more information about their financial distress. Last month, Pacers brass told me they had lost money in nine of 10 years at Conseco Fieldhouse, including the…
Billions of stimulus dollars meant to spur doctors to switch to electronic record-keeping may not be enough to do the job, a private consulting firm said yesterday. The stimulus bill that President Barack Obama signed last month contained $19 billion for health information technology, including $17 billion for incentives and penalties to encourage doctors and […]
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 […]
Help wanted: pharmacists, engineers and nurses. Believe it or not, even some banks are hiring, at least for their technology teams. While the recession has claimed 4.4 million jobs, the economy has created others, many of them for highly trained and specialized professionals. More than 2 million jobs openings now exist across a range of […]
Eli Lilly and Co. has temporarily blocked Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from selling a cheaper generic copy of Lilly’s osteoporosis drug Evista. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker issued a restraining order yesterday in Lilly’s hometown of Indianapolis, keeping raloxifene HCl tablets off the market for at least 10 days. The ruling kicked off the […]
Indiana was praised yesterday as a national leader in new methods of teaching and learning in high schools. The Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks Foundation joined Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels in announcing that it is giving $10 million to the New Technology Foundation (New Tech), based in Napa, Calif. Both organizations promote so-called high-tech high schools. Lecture time […]
The city’s Capital Improvement Board approved cutting an additional $1.5 million from its annual budget today and may have moved a step closer toward funding its annual operating budget with an increase in hospitality taxes. Local sports teams have been reluctant or noncommittal about shouldering a bigger financial load, CIB officials said. As a result, […]
The West Coast fast-food stalwart Jack in the Box is looking to expand to Indianapolis this year. The San Diego-based burger chain plans…
Eli Lilly and Co. asked a judge today to block Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from selling a cheaper generic copy of Lilly’s osteoporosis drug Evista, Bloomberg News reported. Indianapolis-based Lilly made the request before U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker, who didn’t make a ruling today, the first day of a patent-infringement trial between the […]
A new French Lick Airport terminal designed to serve a growing number of travelers to southern Indiana’s Springs Valley will be nearly five times the size of the current facility built more than 40 years ago. “It kind of had fallen on bad times and is not the image we like to project as we […]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has selected Sodexo Inc. to replace Wolfgang Puck as its restaurant operator and to share museum catering responsibilities with Kahn’s Catering in Carmel. The IMA’s announcement this morning culminates a six-month search following the museum’s decision in September to restructure its food-service operations. Based in Maryland, Sodexo employs 120,000 […]
Indianapolis-based Allison Transmission Inc. has completed the first production-quality transmission that could be used in a new amphibious fighting vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps – a development that could mean substantial work for the local manufacturer. “We’re getting closer to gaining a very, very large contract,” Allison spokesman Eric Dickerson said. Allison was scheduled […]
Emmis Communications Corp. says in a new regulatory filing that it hopes the job cuts and pay reductions announced last week will save it about $10 million a year. Emmis, which owns radio stations and publishes city magazines, eliminated 91 full-time employees and 14 part-timers. The cuts represented 7.5 percent of its work force. In […]
