CVS has filed plans to build a new store where an IHOP now stands at the corner of 16th and Meridian streets.
The new pharmacy would replace the iconic pancake house and a probation office that was an Osco pharmacy several years ago.
The site is across the street from a Walgreens that opened last year. Plans show the building would sit up against the intersection,
with parking behind it and along Meridian. The parking area appears to also include a lot previously used by the Payton Wells
car dealership. CVS already has a store nearby, at Illinois and 18th streets, that it likely would close.
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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.
CVS has filed plans to build a new store where an IHOP now stands at the corner of 16th and Meridian streets.
The new pharmacy would replace the iconic pancake house and a probation office that was an Osco pharmacy several years ago.
The site is across the street from a Walgreens that opened last year. Plans show the building would sit up against the intersection,
with parking behind it and along Meridian. The parking area appears to also include a lot previously used by the Payton Wells
car dealership. CVS already has a store nearby, at Illinois and 18th streets, that it likely would close.
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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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Seems a little close together.
I agree with one person though, too bad all of these lots could not be combined and one great street line development onm both sides could develop. Where is the vision of our local entreprenuers and developers!
Anyway, the IHOP is death trap, and I agree that it needs to be knocked down for something else. It just doesn't need to be another drug store.
It is normal for the entrance to be located at the corner of the building. Of course, I'm speaking from experience with their suburban stores where the street corner is a parking lot. With the parking lot in the back, who knows what they may do.
Oh and to Adam, I doubt it has anything to do with Clarian. They have too many plans in the works for suburban expansion and other downtown projects.
CVS stores does one town need? Get ready to report on the sale
of that old store.
It is not hard to find NUMEROUS CVS, Walgreens, RiteAid, or Osco stores located in other large cities downtowns, I don't see why it's a problem here. There is already a CVS store located just a few blocks north of this proposed location, yes. But that store is rundown and NEEDS to be replaced. I'm glad CVS recognizes this.
Don’t get me that story about “All the old people have to park at the doorâ€, hogwash. Well if they can walk up and down 21 isles in a Kroger store. They sure as H_ell can walk around the corner. I have never seen a REAL handicapped person park in the handicapped space that couldn’t walk two or three blocks. And seem to have NO problems pushing a 70 or 80 lb. cart of stuff around.
Yes. It’s time to dump the Ihop for some newer buildings. BUT if you think CVS has anything but THERE BEST INTEREST IN MIND. And building as cheap as possible. You are kidding yourself. THEY ARE BIG TIME LIAR ….
The 'Regional Center/North Meridian Corridor whoever’s’ will B_end O_ver and LET the developer have what ever they want. They have slacked off on every thing built in this area for years. So they have NO back bone to stand on. Or any integrity to Demand anything. They caved before, they will cave now…
The TOTAL lack of rentable space is stopping any REAL north Meridian '16th street' development. There are NO store fronts for a restaurant/book shop/Play it again Sam’s or a coffee house to rent. This area should look like Boys Town in Chicago. Or even Mass Ave. The people are there. But it well NEVER happen when CVS, Walgreens or things like RiteAid. Throwing up suburban style type stores in a downtown inner city neighborhood.
Believe all you want. Santa Clause is not coming to 16th and Meridian in the form of a neighborhood friendly CVS.
Oh, and maybe some windows along Meridian and 16th, and the loading dock oriented to the alley. And maybe, just maybe, unlike Walgreen's, they could be asked to install the landscaping between the sidewalk and the curb instead of between the sidewalk and the building, thus, eliminating a barrier between pedestrians and the store, and creating a safety barrier between pedestrians and quickly moving vehicles.
That wouldn't be so bad, would it?
I helped successfully stop a CVS development in my hometown. Again Walgreens was across the street and they wanted to buy an old city block that still had business, historical storefronts, and an old 1916 theatre, that was in it's first stages of renovations. We argued they didn't need the block and they couldn't tear down the theatre, they re-located!
Lets stop them! lol
For those people REALLY upset by the closing of IHOP, an artical in the Star this morning says that it will be reopening about a block to the south.
Until the downtown core gets more full-time residents, it probably doesn't make good business sense for that kind of store to remain open any later than it does.
I'm sorry someone's friends got hurt there, but I have had many, many positive experiences there.
That IHOP is a greaser, much like The Peppy Grill in Fountain Square. You go there to get breakfast food late at night, or a hamburger. You joke around with the waitress and have a leisurely meal while they take way too many smoke breaks. You don't go in with an attitude and expect to be treated like god's gift to Indianapolis.
Just a thought then, they would be able to capitalize on the tourist and especially business person dollars, there always forgetting things, and this would be a way to differentiate themselves from Walgreens as there is not a walgreens in the real downtown.
Because we're an aging, obese population and drugstores sell drugs! No one ever seems to care when there are two gas stations located across from each other. Why should it surprise us that the same marketing strategy works for drugstores? adn for the record, IHOP is the pits!