June 22, 2009
Cory SchoutenThe Capital Improvement Board could be forced to give up one of its most profitable assets so the city can pull off a $65-million
public-private downtown development deal. The city has agreed to help a developer revitalize the vacant former Bank One operations
center in part by acquiring an adjacent
parking garage for $18.5 million.
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June 22, 2009
Greg AndrewsWithin weeks, EnerDel expects to receive notification that it's getting as much as $480 million in financing under a U.S.
Department of Energy program aimed at fostering advanced vehicle manufacturing.
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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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April 27, 2009
Cory SchoutenWestfield Mayor Andy Cook is proposing a $60 million youth sports complex with a 4,000-seat multipurpose outdoor
stadium, indoor sports facilities and sports fields with the goal of establishing the Hamilton County community as the "Family
Sports Capital
of America."
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January 26, 2009
Cory SchoutenThe Indianapolis Housing Agency is asking developers to pitch plans to build new residential
or commercial space on land surrounding the 21-story John J. Barton Apartments at 555 Massachusetts Ave. and the 15-story
Lugar Tower at 901 Fort Wayne Ave.
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September 10, 2007
Cory SchoutenJaron Garrett hasn't developed anything like the 25-story tower he's proposing. And he doesn't come close to having the financial
muscle to pull off the $30 million project on his own. But Garrett is determined to sell his vision of transforming a downtown
eyesore at Washington and Pennsylvania streets into a twisting glass-and-steel apartment tower.
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August 27, 2007
Cory SchoutenFallout from the subprime mortgage fiasco has scuttled a developer's plans to acquire Pan Am Plaza and could complicate a
host of other development deals under way in Indianapolis.
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July 23, 2007
Cory SchoutenAfter years of designing banks, churches and condo conversions, Prince/Alexander Architects Inc. is working
with unnamed partners on a plan to replace its headquarters with a $47 million, 24-story hotel and condo development called
West Merrill Tower.
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July 2, 2007
Jennifer WhitsonSouth-side developer J. Greg Allen is pitching a massive project along Pennsylvania Street downtown that includes hotel towers--one
28 stories, the other 17--to be built on property now used mainly for surface parking.
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May 28, 2007
Cory SchoutenA local firm plans to redevelop a quiet corner near the Fashion Mall into a mixed-use behemoth with a full-service hotel,
5,000-seat theater, hundreds of condos, and more than a million square feet of office and retail space.
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May 14, 2007
Cory SchoutenA high-profile local firm that quietly negotiated last fall to salvage the stalled redevelopment of the Market Square Arena
site abandoned its plans when the city decided instead to solicit new proposals early this year.
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April 23, 2007
Cory SchoutenTwo new proposals for the parking lot formerly known as Market Square Arena are shorter and less dramatic than plans for a
31-story tower that fell through last year. But each of the new sets of plans has its flourishes.
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April 23, 2007
Cory SchoutenSome local developers were left scratching their heads last month when the federal government chose an out-of-state company
to develop an FBI field office in Castleton. The U.S. General Services Administration awarded the $38 million project to Lake
Winnebago Mo.-based BC Development Co.
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April 2, 2007
Cory SchoutenIn the eyes of many at a rezoning hearing late last month, the developers from locally based Mann Properties were bad guys.
They wanted to build homes and a retail center
on 71 mostly wooded acres north of Crown Hill Cemetery. So when the Metropolitan Development Commission denied Mann's request,
the crowd erupted in applause.
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March 26, 2007
Cory SchoutenA who's-who of local firms is planning bids to redevelop the Market Square Arena site with mixed-use projects that would depart
sharply from previous efforts focused on residential. New plans are expected to include retail , offices, apartment units
and condos backed by high-profile local developers that didn't bid before.
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January 15, 2007
Jennifer WhitsonJ. Greg Allen & Associates has made a name for itself building suburban subdivisions, office buildings and retail complexes.
Now, the developer is poised to tackle a pair of projects downtown.
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July 31, 2006
Jennifer WhitsonNow that Mann Properties LLC has won the bidding war for 70 acres of land on the northern end of Crown Hill Cemetery, the
rezoning debate begins.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
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
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
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.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.