Cultural Districts

DINING: Sandwich shop Fresco no mere supermarket sidebar

May 18, 2013
Lou Harry
Third in a month-long series of Cultural Trail restaurant reviews.
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Defining the Indianapolis Cultural TrailRestricted Content

May 4, 2013
Lou Harry
After more than a decade of planning, The Indianapolis Cultural Trail will have its official ribbon cutting May 10 with a coming-out party on May 11. And that’s when boosters and skeptics alike will be watching to see what exactly Indianapolis is going to do with its difficult-to-grasp landmark.
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DINING: Second City-inspired pizzeria wants to be second to none

May 4, 2013
Lou Harry
First in a month-long series of Indianapolis Cultural Trail restaurant reviews.
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LOU'S VIEWS: To learn about the Cultural Trail, walk it

May 4, 2013
Lou Harry
While I’ve been bullish on the Cultural Trail, I realized recently that I haven’t actually walked it—at least, not all of it. Time to change that.
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Mass Ave business owners split over proposed district tax

April 24, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlin
Opponents of a proposed tax to pay for improvements throughout the cultural district have accused tax advocates of rigging the proposal to ensure its passage.
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Focal point for Mass Ave project: Huge electronic screen

October 25, 2012
Cory Schouten
The most striking feature of a proposed $43-million development along Mass Ave is a Times Square-style electronic screen that would wrap around the building's corner and rise more than three stories.
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Plan seeks to turn towpath into arts corridorRestricted Content

May 19, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlin
The city of Indianapolis and private-sector players are lining up behind an effort to rebrand the Central Canal Towpath as an art-themed destination dubbed Art 2 Art by adding artwork and improving the trail.
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Canal Walk popular, but full of opportunities missedRestricted Content

April 28, 2012
Cory Schouten
City leaders once envisioned the Canal Walk as a bustling pathway lined with restaurants and shops, but residential and office buildings have sprouted instead on most of the parcels along the meandering 1-1/2-mile stretch--making it more of a local amenity than a visitor attraction.
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Broad Ripple Art Fair's new ticket strategy to reward those who buy earlyRestricted Content

January 21, 2012
 IBJ Staff
Discounts are seen as a way to make the annual fair a better promotional tool for the Indianapolis Art Center.
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Ten Hoosiers chosen for Georgia Street memorials

December 14, 2011
J.K. Wall
The honorees include business leaders, former U.S. presidents, famous novelists, a Shawnee chief and a feminist pioneer.
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New restaurant to anchor Fountain Square Theatre buildingRestricted Content

November 26, 2011
 IBJ Staff
The End of the Line Public House will replace the Shelbi Street Cafe.
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Decision nears on fate of freed-slave sculpture

October 7, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlin
Controversy has swirled around a piece of art commissioned for the Cultural Trail’s $2 million public art program. What ultimately happens to Fred Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum” sculpture of a freed slave could alienate local African-Americans who oppose it or draw the scorn of national art critics.
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Cultural Trail unveils garage's million-dollar art installment

April 28, 2011
Anthony Schoettle
The latest piece of art to be installed along downtown Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail will cost almost as much as the first eight displays combined.
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Cultural Trail to hire first executive directorRestricted Content

October 2, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlin
A new not-for-profit organization will try to raise more than $700,000 a year for the trail’s ongoing maintenance, and it will market the trail as a tourism and economic-development engine.
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MOUNAYAR: Indianapolis should rediscover public spaces

May 8, 2010
Michel Mounayar
Too few of the city's revitalization projects are connected by attractive sidewalks, streets, gardens and plazas.
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Carmel City Center gaining momentum

April 24, 2010
Cory Schouten
Thirteen years after Mayor Jim Brainard first described his vision for a new downtown along Range Line Road, Carmel City Center is starting to look like a city.
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Indianapolis lawyer to open bar and lounge in 3Mass building on Mass Ave

November 21, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The bar, which isn't yet named, will be Baker & Daniels lawyer Trevor Belden's first bar.
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Mass Ave fine art gallery G.C. Lucas set to close

November 10, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlin
Greg Lucas will be the second fine art gallery owner in Indianapolis to close shop this year. Lucas announced Tuesday that he will close his gallery at 884 Massachusetts Ave. by year's end.
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DINING: (Piz)'Za made for the middle of the night

July 13, 2009
Lou Harry
If you’re in Broad Ripple and hungry for pizza, you’ve got lots of options. But what do you do if it’s the middle of the night on a Thursday and you and your entourage have the munchies? Well, for that very specific demographic group of pizza eaters, there’s now ’Za, which is open until 4 a.m. Wednesday to Saturday.
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DINING: Backward-named eatery, forward-thinking fusion

July 6, 2009
Lou Harry
Search the Web for Naisa and you may come up with the North American International Auto Show or the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Neither has anything to do with the new Naisa Pan-Asian Cafe (1025 Virginia Ave., 602-3708), where the name comes from simply reversing the letters in the word Asian.
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Cultural Trail spurs development plan along Virginia AvenueRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Cory Schouten
A local architecture firm hopes to challenge hip Mass Ave with an arts-themed development in Fletcher Place. The $9 million project would include apartments, retail and office space.
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LOU'S VIEWS: Rickey's sculptures, Phoenix's 'Zoomerville' advance Indy's art reputation

May 18, 2009
Lou Harry
This week, art in the wind and an original musical.
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Indy Gen-X group to tout city to out-of-town recruitsRestricted Content

April 20, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlin
IndyHub, the city's young professionals network, will launch a new Web site, circlingthecity.com, to pique the interest of out-of-towners who are being recruited by local companies.
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IndyFringe leads effort to build artists' apartmentsRestricted Content

November 10, 2008
Kathleen McLaughlin
Indy Fringe executive director Pauline Moffat and Gary Reiter, a board member of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival Inc., want to build an affordable live-work complex near Massachusetts Avenue.
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Indianapolis shows up peer cities in attracting the young and educated

September 8, 2008
J.K. Wall
Cities must woo people while they’re young—in their 20s or early 30s—because after that age, people tend to hunker down. The Indianapolis area apparently appeals to at least two key groups of young people—particularly those already married, according to a new study by researchers at IUPUI.
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