Driving Tour: North Keystone

April 23, 2007
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Even if you haven't driven North Keystone lately, you know the big story here is Glendale. Fences are up and demolition has begun. Still OpenLocally based Kite Realty Group is transforming the enclosed mall into an open air shopping center, Glendale Town Center, complete with a Target store. Meanwhile, the developer is trying to support the stores that are "STILL OPEN."
A few other observations from the area: The Arby's with the old-school sign just north of Fall Creek Parkway has closed, and the sign is gone. A stretch of Keystone north of the old Arby's is fast becoming Self-Storage City, as several new facilities have opened. Finally, across from Glendale, the first of several LA Fitness locations around Indy has opened. They weren't kidding about these things being big. What else is going on in this area?
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  • Sullivan's expanded too recently. There has been lots of activity in the Walmart area, which includes the best Italian place in town, Capri. The outlots have been developed nicely.

    What's the status of the Keystone Towers? That should be made into affordable housing by the feds/locals, I don't think market rent is going to work there.
  • Kite remodeled Glendale into the most beautiful mall in the city... and then drove it in to the ground, slowly and painfully. Maybe they should stick to remodeling and get out of the management biz. Neighbors await the newest transformation with great concern and anxiety. We don't really want a SuperTarget. We want Glendale Mall, full of shops and services, well-run.
  • Speaking of North Keystone, what happened to the apartments known, I believe, as The Landing, just north of Wal-Mart. I don't drive by there very often, but did recently and noticed they were torn down. What gives?
  • They're building condos.

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  1. Doug Henning!

  2. These guy were thugs — they grew up in freaking Haughville! Smh, sigh. If the mayor needs/wants "quality" Black Hoosiers who are NOT corrupt, give me a call — I know plenty. Land bank info here - http://www.kubepharm.com/indylandbank/IndyLandBank.html

  3. Magician and illusionist!

  4. The basic idea of nice apartments with parking and retail is a good one, but this design seems overwhelmingly big/tall for Broad Ripple. The size could be disguised a bit with lots of big trees/landscaping, but the complex is too massive to blend in easily. That section of canal between College and Westfield will also need to be upgraded on both sides. Nice apartments facing onto a nice promenade with shade trees/plantings could bring together the canal towpath/Monon recreation, the outdoor seating at existing restaurants, and this project into something that upgrades the whole area. A plan for the whole stretch makes more sense than facing nice new housing onto what looks like a ditch. Is there a plan? Does the public have input? Who pays? The apartment idea seems to be reasonable, but Whole Foods is not a good idea for appropriate retail. Besides the store being physically too big, there are already Fresh Market at 54xCollege and Whole Foods in Nora for fancy groceries. Good Earth and Kroger are within walking distance of the Shell site. There are at least 7 grocery stores within a safe bike ride. Whole Foods would add nothing but traffic congestion. This design is on the right track, but there needs to be more work done to ensure that it blends in with and enhances the existing community. A project that large will set a tone for that whole part of town. It could be a real asset, but only if done right.

  5. I did not move to Zionsville to live in Carmel. This and the subsequent developments to follow will ensure a vanilla uniformity of strip malls and apartment buildings as we seek to bring our town down to the least common denominator. We were warned before recent elections that pro-development council members would make sure their friends (landowners and developers) would be able to make their millions off of the exploitation of Zionsville. Why in God's name would we sell out the best preserved small town in the State of Indiana?

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