With all the talk of the financial boom Lucas Oil Stadium and the Super Bowl brought to downtown Indianapolis this month, this is a story that should bring discomfort to other downtown hotels as the city pours tens of millions more in public dollars in... »
A Pricewaterhouse Coopers analysis projects this year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis will generate $150 million in spending by the NFL, businesses and visitors on lodging, transportation, meals, entertainment, business services, and other hospitality and... »
Recent news stories discussed how NFL officials had opted against adding nearly 7,000 temporary seats at Lucas Oil Stadium for this year's Super Bowl game as had been proposed by the Indianapolis host committee in its winning bid. Instead, the NFL chos... »
Planners for hosting the Super Bowl in Indianapolis this year had originally planned to add temporary seating at Lucas Oil Stadium that would have added another 7,000 seats to the stadium's 63,000 permanent seats to allow 70,000 tickets to be sold to t... »
This should come as no surprise. All the giveaways the City of Indianapolis provided to the NFL so it could having bragging rights for hosting a Super Bowl is going to wind up costing the Capital Improvement Board more than $800,000. The IBJ's Scott Ol... »
Your tax dollars may have been used to build it, but as we've come to expect in Indianapolis, any revenues derived from the sports facilities built with our tax dollars go directly into the pockets of the billionaire sports team owners. Billionaire Her... »
The American Thinker's Ralph Alter has an interesting take on the NFL's decision to hire Madonna for the half-time Super Bowl act when Indianapolis hosts the big event at Lucas Oil Stadium in February. Alter notes the many foibles of Madonna overlooked... »
Indianapolis Super Bowl organizers are continually touting the economic windfall Indianapolis will receive from hosting the 2012 Super Bowl. The tab to Indianapolis taxpayers for improvements and additional public safety expenditures to host the event,... »
