Real Estate & Retail

City leads Midwest in speculative industrial development

November 27, 2012
Tom Harton
Indianapolis has more speculative industrial space under construction than any other market in the Midwest as developers try to capitalize on about four million square feet of tenant interest in the market.
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Experts predict 20-percent growth in Cyber Monday shopping

November 26, 2012
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
This year's Cyber Monday could be the biggest online shopping day of the year for the third year in a row. Indianapolis-based retailers The Finish Line and HHGregg are among those offering Cyber Monday specials.
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Items in '12 Days of Christmas' increase to $107,000

November 26, 2012
Associated Press
If you get buy all 364 items repeated throughout "The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol, you'll pay 6.1 percent more this year, according to the so-called Christmas Price Index that PNC Wealth Management updates annually.
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Design stars land contract for transit hubRestricted Content

November 24, 2012
Cory Schouten
Architect Daniel Libeskind is part of an international team chosen to design a proposed IndyGo transit hub.
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South-side shopping center fills up on shoes, furnitureRestricted Content

November 24, 2012
Shoe Carnival, Rooms Express will bring Southport Plaza to full occupancy for the first time in four years.
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Lawmaker seeks funding to tackle abandoned housingRestricted Content

November 24, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlin
State Rep. Ed Clere plans to introduce a bill that would give municipalities explicit powers to create land banks, which can sell surplus property for redevelopment. He also wants to include a revenue source to support land-bank operations and eliminate tax-foreclosure sales as a form of investor speculation.
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$22M foreclosure suit targets local apartment complexes

November 21, 2012
Scott Olson
The three complexes are Dogwood Glen Apartments on the city's northwest side, Elmtree Park Apartments on the far-east side and Heathmoore Apartments on the southeast side.
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Airport could land second solar-energy farm

November 21, 2012
Chris O'Malley
The Indianapolis Airport Authority is in talks that could lead to a second solar farm at Indianapolis International Airport. Discussions are taking place even as the initial solar farm has yet to get off the ground.
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Airport Authority continues to fight off-site parking lot

November 20, 2012
Chris O'Malley
The Indianapolis Airport Authority has taken its fight against an off-airport parking operator to the Indiana Court of Appeals after exhausting its options in Marion County Superior Court.
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Indianapolis receives $39M loan guarantee from HUD

November 20, 2012
The city will use the funding to establish a Community and Economic Loan Pool to provide financing for economic development and housing rehabilitation initiatives to benefit people of low and moderate incomes.
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Developer unveils 16-home project just east of downtown

November 20, 2012
Tom Harton
The Re-Development Group Inc. bought a1.6-acre site at New York Street and Highland Avenue last May and will raze three 1960s-era office/warehouse buildings to make way for home construction in 2013.
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Yats founders prepare to franchise chain across MidwestRestricted Content

November 17, 2012
Anthony Schoettle
Yats founders Joe and Regina Vuskovich decided earlier this year to grow their restaurant through franchising. Broad Ripple resident John Sutton and his sister Brittany Franken jumped at the opportunity.
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Carmel project dogged by conflict questionsRestricted Content

November 17, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlin
An executive ousted from the firm developing The Barrington in Carmel alleges that the $142 million retirement-community project was driven by conflicts of interest.
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Circle Centre to build entry through empty NordstromRestricted Content

November 17, 2012
Cory Schouten
Construction could begin soon in the former home of Nordstrom at Circle Centre mall, but the project does not signal an end to the mall’s limbo following the 2011 departure of its marquee anchor.
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Green BEAN Delivery expands with second farmRestricted Content

November 17, 2012
The locally based purveyor of organic produce is leasing 50 acres in Ohio to serve its customers in that state, Indiana and Kentucky.
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Local chain takes vacant Clearwater restaurant spotRestricted Content

November 17, 2012
Zionsville-based Oobatz! will open in building formerly occupied by Uno Chicago Grill.
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Marsh Supermarkets names new CEO from ranks of A&P

November 15, 2012
Cory Schouten
The parent company of Marsh Supermarkets has picked a new CEO to lead the locally based grocery chain.
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Area home-sale contracts rise 20 percent

November 14, 2012
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area rose 20.6 percent in October, the 18th straight month of year-over-year improvement in sales contracts.
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Downtown Crowne Plaza undergoing $8M renovation

November 14, 2012
Guest rooms will receive new furniture and bathrooms new floor tile and granite countertops. Improvements also will be made to public and meeting spaces, in addition to food and beverage areas.
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Zionsville, school district make $5.7M land deal with Dow

November 14, 2012
Scott Olson
Zionsville Community Schools and the town of Zionsville are teaming up to purchase and develop a prime piece of real estate owned by Dow Chemical Co.
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Gift lets land trust preserve 109 acres in Johnson County

November 13, 2012
Dan Human
A $200,000 gift from the Dr. Laura Hare Charitable Trust will help the Central Indiana Land Trust acquire 109 forested acres in southwest Johnson County.
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One Mass Ave project starts; another one is in limbo

November 13, 2012
Tom Harton
Insight Development has begun building an $11.5 million, 61-unit apartment project at Massachusetts Avenue and East and North streets. But  the fate of the second phase is up in the air because its financing had been tied to a project Insight and Flaherty & Collins Properties had hoped to develop across Mass Ave at the site of the Indianapolis Fire Department headquarters.
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$33 million mixed-use project to remake FishersRestricted Content

November 10, 2012
Cory Schouten
Fishers officials are finalizing a deal with a local developer for a mixed-use project that would launch a long-awaited transformation of the town’s suburban core.
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Simon spared no expense with Manhattan residenceRestricted Content

November 10, 2012
Greg Andrews
The $25 million purchase ranked as the 12th-largest residential sale in New York City last year, according to the real estate website Curbed NY.
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Battered Broadbent climbs back from brinkRestricted Content

November 10, 2012
Cory Schouten
One of the city’s best-known retail developers is alive and kicking again after a harrowing real estate downturn and protracted legal battle with two lenders.
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