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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.
Downtown Blog Posts
Privatize parking meters?
July 20, 2009
Comments(0)City officials are considering several proposals to modernize and even privatize the city's roughly 4,000 parking
meters to squeeze out more revenue.
MoreWeigh in on the new Wishard
July 17, 2009
Comments(44)Check out this early rendering of a proposed replacement for Wishard Hospital. The $754-million project calls
for 11 stories and about 1.2 million square feet of space. It would be built just west of the current
hospital, next to the...
MorePrivatize parking meters?
July 13, 2009
Comments(37)City officials are considering several proposals to modernize and even privatize the city's roughly 4,000
parking meters to squeeze out more revenue.
MoreWine bar planned for Conrad
July 10, 2009
Comments(28)Plans are in the works for a wine bar called Tastings that would take the first-floor corner space at the
Conrad Indianapolis and...
MoreMadison Avenue retail planned
July 7, 2009
Comments(25)A local developer is planning a retail strip center for a run-down parcel along Madison Avenue south of
downtown. The plans by Keystone Construction Corp. call for...
MorePreview of $30M project
July 6, 2009
Comments(70)Check out these fresh renderings of a $30-million student housing project planned for Indiana Avenue near
IUPUI. The plans by Trinitas Ventures of West Lafayette call for 250 apartment units at 1201 Indiana Ave,
between Montcalm and Milburn streets south...
MorePanera plans outdoor dining
July 1, 2009
Comments(23)Panera hopes to include sidewalk and atrium seating for its new restaurant under construction at Claypool
Court. The bakery cafe, which is taking second-floor space next door to Weber Grill, has asked...
MoreSo long, SoDo
June 30, 2009
Comments(18)The owners of a 1.3-acre parking lot southeast of Meridian and South streets have put the property up for
sale, apparently putting an end to the dream...
MoreMagazine touts Woodruff Place
June 24, 2009
Comments(13)The magazine This Old House has named Indy's Woodruff Place as one of the country's 51 best places to buy
an old home. The neighborhood...
MoreMasonic landmark turns 100
June 12, 2009
Comments(19)Masonic groups this weekend will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Indiana Freemasons' Hall, formerly
the Indianapolis Masonic Temple, at 525 N. Illinois St. The...
MoreArts vision for Virginia Avenue
June 8, 2009
Comments(10)A proposed $9 million project called Fletcher Place Arts calls for 56 mostly one-bedroom apartments, 8,700
square feet of first-floor retail or office space, and...
MoreT-Mobile taking prime corner
May 26, 2009
Comments(28)T-Mobile has inked a five-year lease for a 2,200-square-foot space at the northwest corner of Washington and
Meridian streets. The store will be a corporate-owned "playground" store, a new...
MoreDeveloper plans apartments at 707
May 23, 2009
Comments(19)A local developer hopes to convert the unfinished eight-story 707 E. North St. condo project into a mostly
affordable apartment building...
MoreTouring the JW Marriott complex
May 12, 2009
Comments(26)The developers of the new JW Marriott hotel complex gave photographer Robin Jerstad and me a tour of the
$425 million project earlier this month....
MoreParcel near LOS lingers on market
April 29, 2009
Comments(31)Have property values around Lucas Oil Stadium risen as fast as the profit expectations of the owners? Perhaps
not, at least if you consider the Cambridge Transmission...
MoreConservancy work begins & more
April 17, 2009
Comments(49)The Nature Conservancy broke ground Thursday for its new Indiana headquarters. The organization still needs
to raise most of the $4.4 million cost of the building, but...
MoreMore progress on blighted block
April 9, 2009
Comments(34)Another rundown building at the northwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania streets is getting some attention
after years of neglect. Workers are putting...
MoreNew project at 22nd and Meridian
April 3, 2009
Comments(31)A developer is planning a 3,200-square-foot, two-tenant retail building at 2181 N. Meridian St. in another
small sign of progress for the uptown...
MoreNia's Deli and 97th Landing
March 31, 2009
Comments(13)A new lunch spot called Nia's Deli is on track to open next week in a building at 38 E. Washington St.
(shown here) that burned in 2007. The space...
MoreBrokers revise plan for key lots
March 23, 2009
Comments(18)The owners of two vacant buildings and a fenced lot along Washington Street downtown aren’t giving up on
redevelopment even after their plans for a...
MoreApartment conversion for Maxwell
March 18, 2009
Comments(29)Sluggish condo sales have led developer Kosene & Kosene to consider turning its latest downtown project, The
Maxwell, into apartments. The local company has moved its corporate...
MoreSad news: Cosmopolitan burns
March 12, 2009
Comments(28)A $33-million apartment and retail project along the canal downtown caught fire early this morning. The Cosmopolitan
on the Canal project, by Flaherty & Collins Properties, had been nearing completion on a site bordered by
the canal, Senate Avenue, Michigan...
MoreJW Marriott taking shape
March 5, 2009
Comments(33)The new 1,000-room JW Marriott convention hotel is rising fast at West and Washington streets in anticipation
of a grand opening in March 2010. The $425-million complex also calls for a Courtyard by Marriott, SpringHill
Suites and a Fairfield Inn...
MorePrivate school moving to Lockerbie
March 2, 2009
Comments(23)The private Todd Academy plans to move into a historic building at the northwest corner of East and New
York streets in Lockerbie Square. The building is...
MoreSomething's cooking on Capitol
February 25, 2009
Comments(31)A local hospitality supply firm has refreshed its 106-year-old building at 640 N. Capitol Ave. with a new
coat of paint, a power wash and a five-foot-tall...
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These quaint,obsessed musings by the stalkers are certainly entertaining, but I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, all the yelping below has to do with Zak Brown.
It's evident that Moffett was pushing the right buttons and corporate America is now trying to squash him. He just wanted to withdraw the free pilot services provided to the company by the pilots to try and put some pressure on a company that has not been interested in negotiating a contract in over 5 years. The company does not provide a contract because not having one has saved them a bundle of money. Shame on any Republic pilots not standing behind their union leader just because things are getting tough, can you not see such strategic moves by the company as putting the last union president in a corporate position and into THEIR pocket. Do you really believe the last union president is so appalled at the attempts by Moffett, do you not remember his oppositions to the company? We stood behind him. It has been proven over and over again for thousands of years without fail, a man cannot serve two masters. Anyone that believes people vote contrary to their paycheck and livelihood deserve to be taken advantage of, the recent statements by the former union president are laughable as he denounces the current union president from his new corporate position. Have you ever seen a drafted sports player score points for his previous team, it cannot be done, he is not on the pilots side anymore, he gets his money a different way now than you and I do, and he should not be allowed to remain on the seniority list. A drafted player brings strength, credibility, tactical knowledge, and a strategic advantage to his NEW team, he would not be drafted or paid were it otherwise. We are all forced to choose only one side to play for and support, not doing so has many references in life such as insider trading and shaving points, all illegal for good reason. This basic fact is why corporate moguls, scientist, and engineers all sign non-discloser agreements and non-compete clauses, as protection in case they are lured into switching sides as our former union president has done. No NFL coach ever drafted a player so that both teams could benefit and better understand each other, they are recruited to win the game against that former team, period. Likewise the company does not recruit the former union president by accident or mutual understanding, its strategy. Don't confuse playing the game with good sportsman-like conduct in support of common business and prosperity goals, with the requirement to only play for one side. Good men we all love and favor fall subject to this manipulation, often without their knowledge, and it is not a betrayal of their friendship to oppose them when they switch sides. If we did not love and trust them, they would not have been chosen and lured to the other side in the first place. The deception by the drafted player is not made at a conscious level, it's just human nature and it's all about money and power which corrupts our ability to be objective and loyal to two masters. This is why our court system created the defense attorney, and why our military created counter intelligence. Its strategy and its propaganda, and it works, and that's why the "powers to be" manipulate the chess pieces by sometimes changing their colors. Some players know they are being manipulated when their color is changed, but it brings them more money and power so they do not care. The rest have good intentions but do not even realize they are being manipulated. This tactic is also known by another name, Divide and Conquer. In battle sending an imperfect message with an imperfect team is obviously not ideal, but it's still being sent by YOUR team, your union leader, a leader that has common goals and common rewards with you, they are the best, because we have elected them to do a job for us. If you are not backing Moffett but believing the spin by those that have recently switched sides, you are taking food out of your own mouth. Showing unity and backing an imperfect situation still results in taking just as much ground, it's about unity and bargaining power. It's not necessary to wait around for that perfect attack because it will never come, the company will spin and attempt to destroy anyone that gets in their way. Ultimately it's not about any specific attack anyway, ASAP or whatever it makes no difference, it is and always has been only about power. If this company cared about safety it would not build pairings with 8 hour overnights, come on, are you that naive? Besides, do you really think Hoffa cares, no, he got a call from corporate America and was squeezed into denouncing Moffett. If he didn't they would spin the safety card against him and the Teamsters National with implication for truckers, future contracts, insurance rates etc...saying something like the Teamsters use safety as a bargaining chip, blah blah blah... Do you really think any pilot is going to do something unsafe for the contract, absolutely not, the only ones threatening safety here is the company with reduced rest, fatigue, and poverty. Do you not find it odd that Hoffa and the Teamsters are opposing a Teamster president publicly? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and work with one of their own? Why did they not sit down and help him strategize, correct any mistakes, and charge ahead? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and leverage a contract for all those pilots that have been paying Teamster dues, isn't that why we have all been paying Teamster dues in the first place? I sure haven't been paying dues so that the Teamsters National could come along and write this kind of an article undercutting our union leader and our unity. Whose side is the Teamsters National really on, it's obviously not the Republic pilots side.
No matter what Moffatt does the company is going to spin it like he is the terrorist and brainwash people like you into believing it, wake up, back your players that are trying to change things for you and your livelihood. Where has Hoffa been for the last 6 years, except collecting our dues. Seriously, do you really think an FO going for upgrade, signed off by a checkairman ready for the upgrade, who then fails, is not even capable of returning as a First Officer.
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