Hotel developer plans $356M project at busy Indiana interchange
White Lodging announced Tuesday that 40 acres would be redeveloped to include an event center, hotels, restaurants, an office building and housing.
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Bank, restaurant vacating downtown tower as work gears up for new hotel
The street-level retail tenants in One North Penn are preparing to either relocate or close for good as the office building’s transformation gets under way.
IBJ Podcast: Can Indy support its downtown hotel boom?
Host Mason King talks with Mark Eble, the managing director of CBRE Hotels Advisory and an expert on the hotel industry in the Midwest, to find out.
Downtown sees blitz of hotel projects
The Indianapolis hotel market is booming, with about 2,800 new rooms slated to come online downtown alone in the next five years.
French Lick Resort plans $17 million expansion project
The six-story addition will add 56 guestrooms and a sports bar to the southern Indiana tourist destination.
Council panel OKs $16.7M in financing for $141M in Keystone Realty projects
Keystone Realty Group’s plan to spend $141 million on two high-profile downtown redevelopment projects passed a hurdle Monday night as an Indianapolis City-County council committee unanimously approved $16.7 million in financing to help fund the project.
Drury plans to demolish Caribbean Cove hotel/water park, build new inn
The mammoth hotel and conference center abruptly closed last year, leaving a huge hole in the Michigan Road corridor south of I-465. Drury Hotels wants a tax break from the city for its plans to fill it.
Historic downtown office building to receive $15M renovation as hotel
Located less than two blocks from Monument Circle, the 120-year-old building could reopen as early as 2019 as a millennial-friendly Aloft property.
Two more hotels planned for burgeoning Whitestown development off I-65
Once populated largely by cornfields, the landscape at the intersection of I-65 and Whitestown Parkway has exploded in recent years with retail and restaurant projects. A smattering of hotels has followed, and two more projects now are in the works.
Four developers vying to build hotel at Indianapolis International Airport
The hospitality market is booming—so is it finally time for Indianapolis International Airport to add an on-site hotel? Airport leaders are examining pitches from four developers that think it is.
Dora, Lauth propose hotel, office building on North Meridian corridor
Dora Hospitality Group and Lauth Group hope to bring a new Hilton brand to the market as part of mixed-use development north of the Ritz Charles hospitality venue.
2018 Indiana 100: High-growth markets grab White Lodging’s attention
Since founding White Lodging in 1985, the privately held company has gained a reputation for delivering new hotels on time, and for managing them without a surfeit of drama.
Dual-branded Hyatt hotel planned for The Yard at Fishers
Plans for the six-story hotel in the expansive, $110 million Yard project will be reviewed Tuesday by city officials.
Study done for Visit Indy casts light on aspirations, challenges for convention sector
A study commissioned by Visit Indy says officials are counting on a new downtown mega-hotel to generate nearly half its own business without relying on conventions.
Indianapolis International Airport seeks to add ‘first class’ terminal hotel
The Indianapolis Airport Authority board has asked developers interested in building the project to submit responses by the end of June. Plans a decade ago to build a $50 million Westin at the airport were scuttled by the Great Recession.
Updated downtown Marriott features more rooms, meeting space
The renovation added 28 rooms to the 17-year-old hotel at 350 W. Maryland St., bringing the total to 650 rooms.
Hospitality hotbed serving airport picking up two more hotel properties
The impending arrival of the full-service Embassy Suites with convention and banquet facilities may have attracted yet another hotelier to the critical mass of operators just west of Indianapolis International Airport.
Carmel thumbs nose at Indiana’s new short-term rentals law
Indiana is the fourth state, following Florida, Idaho and Arizona, to approve statewide standards for short-term rentals.
Few sites leap out for possible downtown mega-hotel
Only the Pan Am Plaza and a city-owned parking garage on Illinois Street jump out as prime locations for the mega-hotel Visit Indy wants downtown, hospitality industry observers say.
Three developers respond to call for downtown hotel plans
City and tourism officials had requested proposals for a hotel that would rival the 1,004-room JW Marriott and include ballroom space integral to attracting more conventions to the city.