Here's a preliminary rendering of the Penn Centre development planned along Pennsylvania Street between
Maryland and Georgia streets. The J. Greg Allen project is being designed by locally based Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf.
At bottom right is a parking lot used by Hampton Inn that is not included in the project. Plans call for towers of 28 and
17 stories, including a 240-room Le Meridien hotel, 150-room aloft hotel, 64 condos and up to six restaurants. The developers
face a final hearing in front of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission on Sept. 5, then must get the blessing
of the Metropolitan Development Commission. They hope to break ground in October. Check out the original post here.
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Welcome to Property Lines, Indy's source for neighborhood real estate news. Your host is Scott Olson, IBJ's real estate beat
reporter. Edited by Cory Schouten.
Here's a preliminary rendering of the Penn Centre development planned along Pennsylvania Street between
Maryland and Georgia streets. The J. Greg Allen project is being designed by locally based Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf.
At bottom right is a parking lot used by Hampton Inn that is not included in the project. Plans call for towers of 28 and
17 stories, including a 240-room Le Meridien hotel, 150-room aloft hotel, 64 condos and up to six restaurants. The developers
face a final hearing in front of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission on Sept. 5, then must get the blessing
of the Metropolitan Development Commission. They hope to break ground in October. Check out the original post here.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
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Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
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Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
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a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
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millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.
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Some serious problems exist with this version. The sexy parts are pushed up against the vacant corner lot - this means that when a 100-story tower goes up there, the Le Meridien project will lose any identity it had. The sexy needs to go elswhere or the owner needs to pay what is being asked for the corner lot.
Second, the Sky Exposure Plane needs to be reviewed carefully, because some loopholes are being overlooked with this version.
Last, there's no way they can get their drawings done in time for an October groundbreak. At least not without a lot of help.
I'm glad I left when I did.
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http://www.urbanspaceusa.com/NewProjects/Exterior/tabid/63/Default.aspx
The street levels look great. Can't wait to see the cranes. :-)
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I'd rather see windows and balconies and nice materials closer to street level on Penn, which is the view most of us will get of this building most of the time. This rendering seems to show one face and pattern for the first few floors, then a dramatically different one above that.
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If not, then I don't get how Penn echos JW.... Penn doesn't look ANYTHING like an American flag!
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Don't they understand that for a building to be attractive and marketable in this town that it should look like it was built in the 1890's using ungodly expensive construction materials such as marble and limestone. Or cutting edge shapes b/c their is so much money in this city to spend on the best architects and engineers (or they can use local architects that consistentiy turn out what are the same basic building since the Riley Towers)
Great project, very happy to see it proposed and cheers to an October 2 groundbreaking!!!
Today, the architect's role is largely damage control; how much design can one fit into a bad pro forma? The sad thing is that most architects here will not pass on big projects, no matter how poorly programmed the developers make it. Even the talented local architects seem to bite their tongues and just roll over for the developers.
On that note, I can comfortably say that I don't care if the architect is local or not. The resulting buildings will be around a lot longer than the design firms will be (and longer than it takes the senior partners to sell out to the junior partners and move to Florida). Where the architect works is close to meaningless if the resulting design works for the site, the community and the client.
I am glad the Omega building facade(Holand building 1867)
is being restored and fixed up, that would have been such a waste to demolish it, and Indianapolis has done quite a bit of fixture saves, and facade re-usage in the past.
The Penn centre will change the feel of that area, thats for sure, and the skyline.