April 8, 2013
Mason KingFast-growing Mainstreet Property Group will invest $800,000 to lease and equip offices at 14390 Clay Terrace Blvd.
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April 1, 2013
Scott OlsonOne of the city's most prolific developers of affordable housing hopes to buy the Indianapolis Star headquarters
to redevelop the property into apartments or condominiums.
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March 27, 2013
Scott OlsonIndiana real estate investment trusts are hitting new highs while outpacing the bull market and their peers in the usually
hardy and suddenly hot sector.
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February 1, 2013
Cory SchoutenThe legal team representing real estate broker John M. Bales and partner William E. Spencer haven't called their first
witness and already they're putting up a spirited fight as federal prosecutors seek to prove 13 charges including bank,
mail and wire fraud.
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January 10, 2013
Cory SchoutenThe city's largest real estate brokerage expects the industrial and housing markets to boom in 2013, but offers a more
cautious view on the office and retail sectors, predicting that uncertainty caused by political gridlock could hamper an already
sluggish recovery.
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January 4, 2013
Cory SchoutenIndianapolis attorney and developer Paul J. Page has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in an investigation that
targets former Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi.
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October 16, 2012
Tom HartonExpiring leases have prompted at least five major users of downtown office space to assess whether to renew or relocate.
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August 28, 2012
Tom HartonPhiladelphia-based BPG Properties Ltd., which owns the building at 8888 Keystone Crossing that Bell is vacating, has purchased
Bell’s new headquarters at 4400 W. 96th St.
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July 31, 2012
Cory SchoutenWorkers have ripped out the old fountain and crumbling bricks of Pan Am Plaza, making way for a waterproof membrane and new
stone pavers in a Kite Realty Group Trust project to stabilize the plaza until it can pull off a redevelopment.
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July 30, 2012
Scott OlsonA division of Simon Property Group Inc. is suing Brisbane, Calif.-based Bebe Stores Inc., claiming the women's clothing retailer
owes it $64,000 in unpaid rent.
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July 24, 2012
Tom HartonFigures from Cassidy Turley showed the suburban market growing by 247,000 square feet while downtown contracted by 68,000
square feet in the first half of the year.
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June 30, 2012
Cory SchoutenWithout a rapid-fire lease deal and renovation, the former Nordstrom anchor space at Circle Centre will sit idle for a second
holiday season. The more general-audience-oriented department store chain Macy’s remains the odds-on favorite to replace
Nordstrom, though it would take only a portion of the available space.
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June 26, 2012
Tom HartonThe northeast-side school district has sold one building, has three offers for another and is seeking tenants for 100,000
square feet in a third building.
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June 16, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinMayor Greg Ballard is giving the private sector its first shot at managing the City-County Building since the downtown structure
opened 50 years ago. The city and county lease it from the Indianapolis-Marion County Building Authority, but Ballard's office
has posted a request for information from real estate firms interested in a 30-year operating agreement.
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June 12, 2012
Tom HartonThe local developer moved its offices into the building and plans more than $2 million in upgrades to reposition a property
that fell on hard times at the dawn of the national real estate crisis.
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June 6, 2012
Cory SchoutenMainSource Bank plans to open its first Indianapolis branch in part of the former home of Borders at the southeast corner
of Meridian and Washington streets downtown.
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April 17, 2012
Tom HartonNet absorption was the highest in five years, chipping away at what has been a chronically high vacancy rate.
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February 14, 2012
Scott OlsonMusic wholesaler Anderson Merchandisers LP is expected to occupy a 703,000-square-foot warehouse formerly used by Best Buy.
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January 28, 2012
Cory SchoutenAn apartment building spree downtown is getting fresh fuel with an $85 million mixed-use development that will be anchored
by a Marsh grocery.
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January 10, 2012
Tom HartonOwners of Broad Ripple’s Brugge Brasserie want to bring a new restaurant concept to the Massachusetts Avenue district
downtown, where they also plan to relocate the craft brewery that supplies beer to Brugge.
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December 17, 2011
Cory SchoutenSeveral state employees openly questioned how John Bales' real estate brokerage did business long before the FBI launched
an investigation that led to his indictment.
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December 13, 2011
Tom HartonMerchants Pointe, a two-building office/retail development at 116th Street and Keystone Parkway, is getting a fresh start
after major road construction drove away tenants and caused a previous owner to default.
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November 8, 2011
Tom HartonKyle Robinson and Drew Loftus are in the process of buying and rezoning a trio of vacant, connected buildings at 6334 Westfield
Blvd., where the Monon Trail crosses the canal.
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November 5, 2011
Cory SchoutenMost buyers are bottom-fishers, investors looking for better returns or companies wanting their own building.
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October 25, 2011
Scott OlsonTwo veterans of vintage retail are teaming up to open a store on a near-east-side corridor that’s getting renewed attention
from the 2012 Super Bowl Legacy Project.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.