Visit Indy CEO Leonard Hoops told Capital Improvement Board members that standing pat is not an option when it comes to hospitality infrastructure, but a major expansion wouldn't be needed in the ...

Visit Indy commissioned a $75,000 study into the need for more hotel rooms and more space at the convention center downtown. Indianapolis hosts around 550 such events each year. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

Visit Indy, the city's tourism arm, has commissioned a feasibility study on whether to expand the Indiana Convention Center for the second time since 2011, tourism officials confirmed this week.

GIF: Courtesy of Visit Indy. Construction crews are ahead of schedule on downtown's Indiana Convention Center expansion, the state's first Signia by Hilton hotel and another Georgia Street remix.

Visit Indy's quest for a new downtown mega-hotel isn't driven just by its need to satisfy conventioneers’ growing demand for hotel space. The tourism-and-convention organization has another ...

Plans for the convention center expansion and new hotels were first announced in 2018. At the time, Visit Indy Chief Executive Officer Leonard Hoops said the promise of a larger convention center ...

Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, who was Indianapolis' mayor from 1968-1976, opened the original Indiana Convention-Exposition Center in 1972. He set the groundwork for a plan to connect hotels ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A project that will change downtown Indianapolis' skyline just hit another milestone. You’ve probably seen construction crews near Illinois and Georgia streets working in a giant hole.

INDIANAPOLIS – Local tourism officials are applauding the Indianapolis City-County Council’s unanimous approval for up to $155 million in bonds to expand the Indiana Convention Center in the ...

Indiana state Sen. Johnny Nugent, a Republican from Lawrenceburg and the only Indiana resident on the NRA's 75-member board of directors, said the convention is "just about the best convention ...

William K. “Bill” McGowan, a major contributor to the convention and sports tourism strategy that helped shape Indianapolis’ identity in the 1980s and 1990s, died Wednesday at 89.