April 2, 2013
Scott OlsonThe Retreat on Washington would be the developer's second project at the former psychiatric hospital campus on Indianapolis'
west side.
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June 18, 2012
Scott OlsonThe Friday blaze engulfed a four-story, 28-unit apartment building due to open this fall as part of the $34 million 16 Park
project. The Indianapolis Housing Agency says construction will resume as soon as possible.
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June 16, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe fire destroyed part of 16 Park, a $34 million affordable housing development that's intended to help spur a revival
of the 16th Street corridor.
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December 7, 2011
Scott OlsonThe first phase of the $22.5 million project, dubbed The Point on Fall Creek, would involve the construction of 58 apartments.
Another 80 units would follow, complemented by a retail component.
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November 15, 2011
Tom HartonThe local arm of a California-based developer of affordable housing is planning to invest up to $10 million in a 60-unit complex
at 20th Street and the Monon Trail.
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November 5, 2011
Francesca JaroszA Bartholomew County not-for-profit affordable housing development group is preparing to fight in Indiana Tax Court a denial
of its property-tax exemption. The denial has put the organization
$200,000 in debt and its rental homes in danger of tax foreclosure.
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October 6, 2011
Scott OlsonThe Whitsett Group LLC's plans call for a $22 million project that would include nearly 140 apartments and a retail component
on the property where Keystone Towers stood. The company submitted the lone bid to the city to redevelop the site.
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September 20, 2011
Scott OlsonKing Park Area Development Corp. is partnering with an Indianapolis developer on an $8.7 million residential project to improve
a blighted parcel along the trail.
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August 2, 2011
IBJ StaffSycamore Services Inc., which serves people with disabilities, has closed on $8 million in financing to build a 72-unit apartment
community in Brownsburg.
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July 29, 2011
Cory SchoutenA run-down former retail plaza along Lafayette Road south of 30th Street will be torn down to make way for a senior housing
development.
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June 29, 2011
The project includes renovations to the 15-story apartment building in downtown Indianapolis, as well as the construction
of two mixed-income buildings containing a total of 74 units at its base.
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June 25, 2011
Scott OlsonThe first building of a new complex on near-north side is set to be completed in August
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May 28, 2011
Francesca JaroszA dormant plan to redevelop the 150-acre former Central State Hospital campus is starting to get momentum. Developers anticipate
spending $100 million to $150 million to revamp the site.
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February 15, 2011
Tom HartonThe $7.2 million project, to be financed with affordable-housing tax credits, involves retrofitting the three-story former
Central Restaurant Products building to accommodate one- and two-bedroom apartments.
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January 11, 2011
Tom HartonFinancing for construction of a $10 million, mixed-use building at 875 Massachusetts Ave. closed Dec. 22, allowing developers
to proceed with the project after a funding snag nearly killed it.
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July 17, 2010
Peter SchnitzlerIf Mayor Greg Ballard successfully closes the $1.9 billion sale of the city's water and sewer utilities to Citizens Energy,
some of the proceeds will be used to bulldoze or rehabilitate 2,000 to 4,500 abandoned, unsafe homes during the next two years.
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May 4, 2010
Tom HartonThe addition of an underground parking garage is likely to get Trail Side off the drawing board and under construction.
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March 26, 2010
Scott OlsonRenovation of apartment building owned by the Indianapolis Housing Agency will have to wait, after it failed to receive the
necessary federal backing to fund it. Three other IHA projects, including Caravelle Commons, will move forward, however.
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March 13, 2010
Tom HartonCity agency plans renovations, expansions at eight apartment properties.
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March 2, 2010
Tom HartonTrail Side on Mass Ave would include 69 one-bedroom apartments and about 23,000 square feet of ground-level retail space.
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January 23, 2010
Cory SchoutenPartners in Housing Development seized on a weak real estate market to acquire three urban apartment communities in the last
18 months.
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October 10, 2009
Cory SchoutenA troubled low-income housing project has a new owner with plans to redevelop the complex to better
connect with the Herron Morton Place neighborhood. Next door, Kroger has revived efforts to acquire
land and plan a new supermarket to replace a cramped, old-format location.
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June 1, 2009
Chris O'MalleyLocal leaders and, soon, a national team of experts, are quietly developing a strategy to revitalize Marion County's biggest
concentration of brownfield sites and impoverished urban neighborhoods, centered at East 22nd Street and the Monon Trail.
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May 25, 2009
Cory SchoutenA local developer is hoping to convert an unfinished eight-story luxury condo project downtown into a mostly affordable apartment
building with its headquarters on the top floor.
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March 30, 2009
Cory SchoutenA new generation of company leadership is revving the Gene B. Glick Co. and building and buying apartment complexes again.
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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.