December 8, 2009
Cory SchoutenSimon Property Group Inc. is doubling down on outlet malls with an agreement to buy Baltimore-based Prime Outlets, a
privately held firm that owns 22 of the giant properties.
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December 5, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
Visions for the empty historic building
range from offices to a museum. Two developers propose a boutique hotel on an adjacent parking
lot. Video bonus: Tour the landmark's interior.
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December 4, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe Indianapolis-based shopping mall owner is facing competition for General Growth from Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management
Inc., which also has been buying up General Growth's debt.
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December 3, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressGeneral Growth Properties Inc., the nation's second-largest shopping mall operator, said lenders have agreed
to restructure about $9.7 billion in debt. The agreements could put a damper on the acquisition aspirations of rival Simon
Property Group Inc.
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November 30, 2009
Cory SchoutenSimon Property Group Inc. may sell several of its properties in Europe to help raise funds for a possible bid for bankrupt
rival General Growth Properties.
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November 24, 2009
Cory SchoutenPaul Kite Co. has applied for a rezoning of the 16.5-acre site to allow for
non-airport uses.
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November 21, 2009
Cory SchoutenCB Richard Ellis recently began marketing the most prominent of Premier Properties’ local properties, Metropolis. The
Venu site
at the southwest corner of East 86th Street and Keystone Avenue also is up for grabs.
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November 18, 2009
General Growth is the second-largest U.S. mall owner, trailing only Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group, with more than
200 regional malls in 44 states.
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November 14, 2009
Cory SchoutenThe Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund is negotiating to buy a 12-story office building across from the
Statehouse in what could be the year’s largest downtown office transaction.
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November 11, 2009
Cory SchoutenLocally based Duke Realty Corp. netted more than $1 million during a Tuesday auction of surplus development parcels in Indianapolis,
Fishers, Plainfield and Lebanon.
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November 10, 2009
Tom HartonVan Rooy Properties plans to spend $5.5 million renovating a 277-unit west side apartment complex that it acquired a month
ago in an unusual deal.
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October 24, 2009
Cory SchoutenJust about every player in the real estate business—whether individual investor, private-equity fund or publicly
traded company—is trying to raise capital to take advantage of what they see as an inevitable shakeout in commercial
property.
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October 21, 2009
Cory SchoutenA California water bottler has purchased a Plainfield distribution building for its first Midwestern outpost.
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October 20, 2009
Scott OlsonThe developer of the proposed $80 million project is facing foreclosure on the property at the same time adjoining land critical
to the project's development has been scheduled for liquidation by a lender.
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September 28, 2009
Indianapolis-based Hat World Inc. said Monday that its Impact Sports division has acquired Great Plains Sports in St. Paul,
Minn.
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September 15, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressTwo Anderson siblings are buying the city's Mounds Mall from the Florida-based company that has owned it for the past six
years.
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August 20, 2009
IBJ StaffLocally based information technology consultant Apparatus has agreed to buy the former WFYI building at 1401 N. Meridian St.
for a new headquarters.
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June 22, 2009
Cory SchoutenThe largest outside investor in embattled developer Lauth Group Inc. is asking a federal judge to dismiss the company's bankruptcy
cases.
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June 22, 2009
The city has unveiled a dramatic plan for new housing and retail development to revitalize the old Market Square Arena site.
Despite some shortcomings, the project deserves a chance to give the stagnant area a boost.
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June 15, 2009
Cory SchoutenA $65 million public-private plan for the redevelopment of a vacant downtown office building is raising eyebrows for its unusual
approach and potential risk to taxpayers. The plan calls for a private developer to acquire the former Bank One operations
center, surface parking lots and an adjacent
parking garage from a private owner for $18.5 million, then sell the 1,680-space garage to the city for $18.5 million.
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June 15, 2009
Cory SchoutenDeveloper Brown Investments has reached terms with the owners of 43 of 49 homes in the North Meridian Heights neighborhood
in Carmel. Browning plans to demolish the homes to make way for a $100 million commercial development over 17 acres.
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June 8, 2009
Cory SchoutenA 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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September 22, 2008
Cory SchoutenA local real estate developer has emerged as a top contender to buy the 28-story M&I Plaza--potentially at half the
$50 million price the building fetched a decade ago. Paul Kite Co. confirmed it is in talks with Maryland-based
CapitalSource Inc., which took over the struggling office tower in June after foreclosing on a $5 million
mezzanine loan.
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July 28, 2008
Cory SchoutenTwo giants of local business are preparing to slug it out in court over a soured sublease deal. Marsh Supermarkets filed
suit in Hamilton County this month to enforce a deal with Swiss pharmaceutical and medical-equipment powerhouse
Roche to sublease the grocer's entire 148,000-square-foot headquarters in Fishers. The deal, worth more
than $47 million over 18 years, is one of the largest of its kind in central Indiana in years.
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July 7, 2008
Cory SchoutenA trendy bar and an upscale hotel have agreed to anchor the 11-story Ralston Square project slated for South Street between
Meridian and Pennsylvania streets. The developers of the $60 million mixed-use project are moving forward after landing the
tenants necessary to secure a loan commitment, said Brian Epstein, president of locally based Urban Space Commercial Properties
and a partner on the project.
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It's also across the street from Fogo de Chao and Morton's....
Yep, the haters are trying to make good news bad. I guess it is hard to get people to believe the series is dying when they are gaining new sponsors.
David Copperfield! I remember watching his specials on TV when I was little.
Don't forget this is next to an MMA gym, a pawn shop, and some abandoned spaces.
Good project for Zionsville - A group who has owned the property for many years has waited and worked patiently to bring highest and best use development to a major corridor, and mix that in with the great downtown you have. Win Win. All the Best to Pittman Partners and Zionsville.