The Indianapolis-based company is the nation's largest mall developer, with more than 200 shopping malls, including the huge Mall of America near Minneapolis.

Indianapolis-based companies formed the Circle Centre Development Corporation and put up the money needed to secure the private bank loans for the development.

Lilly, the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company, said its sales and earnings set records in the quarter, but some investors said they were disappointed.

But A. & S. Plaza at Greeley Square, as the project is tentatively named, will be that test, and Melvin Simon, chairman of the Indianapolis-based company that bears his name, is ready for it.

The Indianapolis-based company represents more than 500 brands and employs over 600 Hoosiers.

The Indianapolis-based company gave no reason for its decision in making the announcement last week, citing only "a number of practical and policy considerations."

Mr. Honig showed a letter from Outstanding High School Students of America, a branch of an Indianapolis-based company, Outstanding Students of America.

The Quayle family will continue to control most of the stock in the Indianapolis-based company.

"It's becoming more and more difficult to make contact," said Stephen Plopper, an attorney who is a spokesman for Servass Inc., an Indianapolis-based company that had been building a brass refinery in Iraq.

Vaughn D. Bryson, an executive vice president and longtime employee of the big Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company, will succeed Mr. Wood in the three posts on Nov. 1.