Is it a wish list, or are some of the nation's top retailers eyeing the Saxony project in Hamilton County? Some big
names, including Lacoste, North Face and Polo, appear on a map shared with retailers and brokers at a shopping center convention
in Chicago Thursday. Other names include Aldo, Jared, JCrew, Tommy Hilfiger, Polo, Coach, Forever 21 and bebe. Restaurant
spaces show a McCormick and Schmick's and California Pizza Kitchen. Locally based Situs Realty Corp. is leasing the new center,
which would sit on the Fishers side of the 725-acre Saxony development. The developer is Republic Development. Situs President
Keith Stark called the names "tentative" since the company is in the "very early stages of leasing." He said the 800,000-square-foot
shopping center would open in 2009.
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Welcome to Property Lines, Indy's source for neighborhood real estate news. Your host is Scott Olson, IBJ's real estate beat
reporter. Edited by Cory Schouten.
Is it a wish list, or are some of the nation's top retailers eyeing the Saxony project in Hamilton County? Some big
names, including Lacoste, North Face and Polo, appear on a map shared with retailers and brokers at a shopping center convention
in Chicago Thursday. Other names include Aldo, Jared, JCrew, Tommy Hilfiger, Polo, Coach, Forever 21 and bebe. Restaurant
spaces show a McCormick and Schmick's and California Pizza Kitchen. Locally based Situs Realty Corp. is leasing the new center,
which would sit on the Fishers side of the 725-acre Saxony development. The developer is Republic Development. Situs President
Keith Stark called the names "tentative" since the company is in the "very early stages of leasing." He said the 800,000-square-foot
shopping center would open in 2009.
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These quaint,obsessed musings by the stalkers are certainly entertaining, but I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, all the yelping below has to do with Zak Brown.
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It's evident that Moffett was pushing the right buttons and corporate America is now trying to squash him. He just wanted to withdraw the free pilot services provided to the company by the pilots to try and put some pressure on a company that has not been interested in negotiating a contract in over 5 years. The company does not provide a contract because not having one has saved them a bundle of money. Shame on any Republic pilots not standing behind their union leader just because things are getting tough, can you not see such strategic moves by the company as putting the last union president in a corporate position and into THEIR pocket. Do you really believe the last union president is so appalled at the attempts by Moffett, do you not remember his oppositions to the company? We stood behind him. It has been proven over and over again for thousands of years without fail, a man cannot serve two masters. Anyone that believes people vote contrary to their paycheck and livelihood deserve to be taken advantage of, the recent statements by the former union president are laughable as he denounces the current union president from his new corporate position. Have you ever seen a drafted sports player score points for his previous team, it cannot be done, he is not on the pilots side anymore, he gets his money a different way now than you and I do, and he should not be allowed to remain on the seniority list. A drafted player brings strength, credibility, tactical knowledge, and a strategic advantage to his NEW team, he would not be drafted or paid were it otherwise. We are all forced to choose only one side to play for and support, not doing so has many references in life such as insider trading and shaving points, all illegal for good reason. This basic fact is why corporate moguls, scientist, and engineers all sign non-discloser agreements and non-compete clauses, as protection in case they are lured into switching sides as our former union president has done. No NFL coach ever drafted a player so that both teams could benefit and better understand each other, they are recruited to win the game against that former team, period. Likewise the company does not recruit the former union president by accident or mutual understanding, its strategy. Don't confuse playing the game with good sportsman-like conduct in support of common business and prosperity goals, with the requirement to only play for one side. Good men we all love and favor fall subject to this manipulation, often without their knowledge, and it is not a betrayal of their friendship to oppose them when they switch sides. If we did not love and trust them, they would not have been chosen and lured to the other side in the first place. The deception by the drafted player is not made at a conscious level, it's just human nature and it's all about money and power which corrupts our ability to be objective and loyal to two masters. This is why our court system created the defense attorney, and why our military created counter intelligence. Its strategy and its propaganda, and it works, and that's why the "powers to be" manipulate the chess pieces by sometimes changing their colors. Some players know they are being manipulated when their color is changed, but it brings them more money and power so they do not care. The rest have good intentions but do not even realize they are being manipulated. This tactic is also known by another name, Divide and Conquer. In battle sending an imperfect message with an imperfect team is obviously not ideal, but it's still being sent by YOUR team, your union leader, a leader that has common goals and common rewards with you, they are the best, because we have elected them to do a job for us. If you are not backing Moffett but believing the spin by those that have recently switched sides, you are taking food out of your own mouth. Showing unity and backing an imperfect situation still results in taking just as much ground, it's about unity and bargaining power. It's not necessary to wait around for that perfect attack because it will never come, the company will spin and attempt to destroy anyone that gets in their way. Ultimately it's not about any specific attack anyway, ASAP or whatever it makes no difference, it is and always has been only about power. If this company cared about safety it would not build pairings with 8 hour overnights, come on, are you that naive? Besides, do you really think Hoffa cares, no, he got a call from corporate America and was squeezed into denouncing Moffett. If he didn't they would spin the safety card against him and the Teamsters National with implication for truckers, future contracts, insurance rates etc...saying something like the Teamsters use safety as a bargaining chip, blah blah blah... Do you really think any pilot is going to do something unsafe for the contract, absolutely not, the only ones threatening safety here is the company with reduced rest, fatigue, and poverty. Do you not find it odd that Hoffa and the Teamsters are opposing a Teamster president publicly? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and work with one of their own? Why did they not sit down and help him strategize, correct any mistakes, and charge ahead? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and leverage a contract for all those pilots that have been paying Teamster dues, isn't that why we have all been paying Teamster dues in the first place? I sure haven't been paying dues so that the Teamsters National could come along and write this kind of an article undercutting our union leader and our unity. Whose side is the Teamsters National really on, it's obviously not the Republic pilots side.
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No matter what Moffatt does the company is going to spin it like he is the terrorist and brainwash people like you into believing it, wake up, back your players that are trying to change things for you and your livelihood. Where has Hoffa been for the last 6 years, except collecting our dues. Seriously, do you really think an FO going for upgrade, signed off by a checkairman ready for the upgrade, who then fails, is not even capable of returning as a First Officer.
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tentative tenants the Container Store & Kenneth Cole were listed.
They didn't show & I doubt these will either.
roundabout. Our government needs to wise up and step in over this
over development issue. How many shopping venues do we possibly need!
I can remember as a kid going up the west side of 465. You could see the fire from the refinery and the sun off the Pyramids from all the way over there. Now I can't even look around me because I'm afraid I'll get barreled over by a semi going 85!!!
I also, saw that Indiana ranked near dead last for environmental grades in the most recent issue of Forbes Magazine! I find this utterly appaling. Given that most businessess locate on how well a place performs in this. So we REALLY need to clean up!
On a brighter note a number of projects announced or underway in Indy are i think greening the way (cause paving the way isnt so environmentaly sound) yet the projects are i believe our under construction & under appreciated new midfield terminal, 3 Mass Ave, The Venu (which very well may be the BIGGEST green project built in the country as well as the proposed Ralston Square... Hopefully, this is only the beginning & projects like the JW Hotel Complex get the green light to go green too!
I don't know how the women's wear selection stacks up, but the menswear collection at Saks Fashion Mall is shockingly poor. There is very little there I would actually consider buying were I in the market for upscale clothing. Until Saks can demonstrate its ability to sell a higher end merchandise mix, I'm skeptical on luxury stores setting up standalone shops. Although clearly the retail mix at places like Keystone Crossing is trending upwards significantly.
Cummins, Cat, and International all make diesel engines here, GM and Toyota build trucks, and Subaru and Honda have car factories. There's a huge plastics plant in Mount Vernon on the Ohio River. Petrochemicals and heavy-metal manufacturing are energy-intensive (smokestack emissions) and produce lots of waste byproducts. And the state's electric utilities largely rely on coal-fired electric plants that provide the juice for all our computers.
I'd wager that Texas ranked similarly low for their concentrations of petrochemical facilities, but Texas continues to boom.
I'd also wager that smart business decision-makers try to understand the reasons for rankings like these instead of just reading and reacting as you've done.
Saxony has been under development for SEVERAL years. The project is not new, only the news that there are tenants for it. Quit griping.
Our bad grades on both environmental and sprawl report cards reflect that massive capital investment as well. It doesn't mean we aren't sensitive to the need for change, it only means that we have what we have.
The thing that will change the perceived need for all these sprawling new developments further and further from the urban core is unsold new houses and empty new storefronts. I don't think that will happen by preaching about corporations, developers, and their impact on the environment. I think it will happen when people connect their own individual choices with environmental protection and begin making choices that decrease their footprints.
High-end tenants would be nice there and at the new mall across 69. I cannot wait for both of those to reach completion. Why are people so anti when it comes to projects like these. People just can't stand to see Fishers do well. I hope every major area can lure and attract high end clients/tenants and don't try to diminish an area that happens to do so. Fishers is a great area to live. Carmel, Westfield, Noblesville all have a sister-city way of things with Fishers in my opinion and I hope each town continues to make progress and secure progressive developments like Saxony, West Clay, Clay Terrace, Westfields new project, Hamilton Town Center, etc... Looking forward to it, but don't understand people's criticisms.
Elsewhere on this blog is a post about the $600million I-69/I-465 fix. Folks, they're related: Suburban/exurban growth = congestion.
Why? Because your road grids out in the boondocks were built on one-mile squares. When the 640 acres in each square mile get divided up into 1500, 2000 or more homesites, the 4000 or 5000 cars that live inside that mile square all have to use the four intersections at the corners of their mile square to go everywhere...behind the school busses.
Mile after mile on those roads...116th, 126th, Gray, Hazel Dell, Cumberland, Olio, Cyntheanne etc....the effect is cumulative. You are building your way INTO congestion that you can never build out of. Roundabouts will only work for a while. You don't have the pressure relief inherent in an urban street grid with five or ten cross streets per mile; everyone must pass through choke points to go everywhere.