Numerous other graphics and arts installations also are being placed throughout Indianapolis International Airport to welcome visitors, participants and media to Indianapolis for All-Star events.
Most of the 125,000-plus fans who are expected downtown for the NBA All-Star Weekend Feb. 15-18 won’t be at the big game. But local residents and others without game tickets will still have plenty of opportunities to get in on the action.
All-Star Weekend has become synonymous with parties that attract celebrities and people who gravitate to celebrity. And demand is high for venues downtown, an area long celebrated for its compact layout and track record of hosting large events.
Billed as “Curling on the Canal,” two synthetic ice rinks for curling—the sport in which players slide “stones” toward a target—are available for free play at Vermont Street Plaza.
Some call it “ bleisure travel,” “laptop lugging,” “workations” or simply “blended travel.” Whatever it’s called, it could upend the traditional divide between leisure and business travel.
Communities and groups are planning events large and small for the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse, with a path of totality that will briefly plunge the Indianapolis area and much of the rest of the state into darkness.
Broadway shows, a music festival and surrealism at the Lume are new attractions planned for Indianapolis in the new year.
Canary Creek, which opened in 1999, will screen its last movies this weekend. The theater has historic ties to Franklin’s century-old Artcraft movie theater in downtown Franklin, which continues to operate.
Visit Indy said the city is tracking to have more than 550 conventions, meetings and events in 2024, with many expected to be booked closer to their respective dates.
Before Santa Claus, Indiana, became a well-known destination for amusement park lovers, two entrepreneurs engaged in a long legal battle that was eventually decided by the state’s highest court.
The mall redevelopment is not the largest downtown project in terms of cost. But it will elevate a vast and critical piece of real estate as more than $9 billion in other downtown projects are slated to come to completion over the next decade.
Alcoholics Anonymous holds its event every five years. Local tourism leaders pitched the sobriety group on Indianapolis in late 2022, with representatives visiting this August.
The Freight plans to begin home games at the new Fishers Event Center in March 2025 and will be joined in the 8,500-seat venue by the Indy Fuel hockey team by the end of 2024.
“Blue Skies” occupies a 40-feet-by-100-feet space above escalators and stairs at Indianapolis International Airport.
About 20 chimpanzees are expected to be on site when the $25 million exhibit opens to the public, with the facility able to accommodate up to 30 adult apes.
The Terre Haute Casino Resort will feature a 400,000-square-foot casino building with 56,000 square feet of gaming space that includes 1,000 slots and 50 table games, as well as a 125-room hotel.
More than 600,000 tickets were sold for $31.8 million to concert attendees at Noblesville’s Ruoff Music Center in 2023, according to Pollstar magazine.
The Pacers, who haven’t reached the playoffs since 2020 or won a series since 2014, will have a chance to become the first in-season tournament champions Saturday.
Lawrence Central High School alum Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian also made a short film that’s eligible for 2025 Academy Award consideration.
Sean Huddleston, president of Martin University, resigned from the Newfields board of trustees on Nov. 20.
