Thursday, September 24, 2026 Hotel Tribune News and analysis for the trade

Construction & Development

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Opinion: The Case for an Authority Owning Its Airport Hotel

The Indianapolis Airport Authority owns the 253-room Westin on its own terminal campus and funded it through airport general revenue bonds, Marriott key money and an equity investment with no tax dollars. The cost record is documented in full. The published demand test behind the 253 rooms is not.

Sep 23, 2026

A Rate Premium for the Odd Fellows Kimpton

The 167-room Kimpton in the Odd Fellows building carries 4,500 square feet of meeting space and a rooftop bar for 300 guests, and a buyer holds both against a downtown market that adds 2,300 rooms.

Sep 23, 2026

Gold Building Loan: $37 Million of Public Money, Terms Unwritten

Indianapolis committed about $37 million of public money to the Gold Building conversion at 151 Delaware Street: $18.8 million in tax-increment-financing bond authority approved in early 2023, and an $18 million bridge loan the Metropolitan Development Commission approved on 17 September 2025. The conversion carries more than 350 apartments and nearly 8,000 square feet of ground-floor retail at a cost the city put at about $200 million in May 2024.

Sep 23, 2026

Public Money and the Greenlawn Bridge: What Would Settle It

Indianapolis pays for the Greenlawn Memorial Bridge, its approaches and the archaeology inside the right of way, and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation funds the district's other roadway work. The trail's own study records $3 billion in added assessed value along its route, and no publisher carries a room-night or rate effect for the corridor.

Sep 22, 2026

The Elanco Campus Account: What a Hotel Should Sign, and What to Hold Back

Elanco Animal Health's $200-million-plus headquarters opened on the White River on 1 October 2025 with more than 700 weekday employees. The district around it holds one named university partner, no second tenant and no published visitor count, so the room-night case rests on the account terms a hotel writes.

Sep 21, 2026

The IU Medical Tower and the Room-Night Ceiling in a Deal

The IU School of Medicine education and research building opened in June 2025 at 350 W. 14th St. Its weekday traffic is real and its overnight volume is thin, and the hospital phase that carries the room nights opens in 2027. Here is what an owner or a campus buyer should settle in writing.

Sep 21, 2026

Will a $4.3 Billion Hospital Campus Fill Indianapolis Hotel Rooms?

Indiana University Health is building a $4.3 billion hospital campus on 44 acres in downtown Indianapolis with 864 inpatient rooms, 50 operating rooms and a medical education building HVS sizes at 326,000 square feet. HVS reads the campus as steady weekday demand for extended-stay and midscale hotels. IBJ reports the opening moved from December 2026 to the fourth quarter of 2027.

Sep 21, 2026