The Nature Conservancy has agreed to buy an old industrial property on the eastern
edge of downtown to develop a new Indiana headquarters. The $4.5 million project will revitalize or replace the former home
of Nemec Heating & Supply Co. at 614 E. Ohio St. The property takes up about half the block between Easley Winery and the
former home of Harmon Auto Glass, where construction is under way on the six-story, 105-unit Maxwell. The rest of the block is occupied by funeral services firm Buchanan Group, which just finished renovating
its new headquarters, an old warehouse building. The Conservancy is working with locally based Axis Architects to design an
energy-efficient headquarters with a “green� roof and extensive landscaping. The organization is aiming for the highest
level of LEED certification. Check out the full story 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.
The Nature Conservancy has agreed to buy an old industrial property on the eastern
edge of downtown to develop a new Indiana headquarters. The $4.5 million project will revitalize or replace the former home
of Nemec Heating & Supply Co. at 614 E. Ohio St. The property takes up about half the block between Easley Winery and the
former home of Harmon Auto Glass, where construction is under way on the six-story, 105-unit Maxwell. The rest of the block is occupied by funeral services firm Buchanan Group, which just finished renovating
its new headquarters, an old warehouse building. The Conservancy is working with locally based Axis Architects to design an
energy-efficient headquarters with a “green� roof and extensive landscaping. The organization is aiming for the highest
level of LEED certification. Check out the full story here.
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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
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The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
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As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
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The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
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I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.
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Is this structure historic? If so I'd hope it would be salvaged.
I drive past this building often. It has potential to look sweet. Good Bones, as they say.
I think it would be great if they could restore the closed up doorways to functional doorways. The structure is not really that significant compared to many center township structures as it is in the older part of town its architecture is dwarfed by victorian structures with fine detail and more interesting histories. I also agree that this is preserving a part of our culture. If only reuse was thought of more often through 1950-1980. We lost many gems and saw the extinction of second empire(which was once very common) in downtown Indianapolis. This is why I hate seeing so much of Old Indy still boarded up, and not just houses but fine masonry shops and apartment buildings! Heck, I think IPS could learn to reuse some old schools.
Not only that, but the front of the building has several bricked-over areas that appear to be windows. This building seems like it could easily go from a brick box to a historic stunner if the owners are willing to go down that path.
I agree, structures that are older tend to last much longer and usually require less energy!
The new office space in downtown Indy recently has been in Capitol View (re-used warehouse), Gibson, Faris, several downtown schools, the new home of DMD Permitting and Compliance and DPW Engineering (re-used factory/warehouse), Farm Bureau. Buckingham is re-using the Stokely Building. Shiel Sexton has re-developed the historic Lexington. WFYI re-purposed the old Indiana Energy building, which is a wonderful (in quotes because I don't like the style, but it's very representative of the era) example of 80's Corporate architecture, itself an expansion/re-use of an historic building. A block away, the Herron School site is being adaptively re-used, and a developer is planning a re-do of the Penn Arts building.
On the other hand, no one has built a new office or apartment tower in years while the market re-absorbs all the underutilized re-usable spaces. The NEMEC building is just one more example of where the action is in the downtown market. Like you, I hope to see it adaptively re-used. Thanks for the link to the Rypkema piece. I'll use it. :-)