INDIANA LODGING The state of the hotel industry
The last decade has been a period of unprecedented growth in the lodging industry worldwide. Indiana has emerged with a reasonably healthy and varied stock of hotels statewide. Indiana presents an interesting case study, not only in hotel development through this last decade but of real-estate development and civic planning as well.
While downtowns from Peoria to Pittsburgh dried up and blew away, the city of Indianapolis quietly planned and orchestrated its eventual resurrection. In an extraordinary example of foresight, the Unigov legislation that was drafted in the '60s extended the city limits to contain the bulk of ...