Venu

May 26, 2007
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Venu calls for a mall roughly the size of The Fashion Mall at Keystone, a 575-room hotel that would be the city’s third largest after a new JW Marriott and the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, and an office building with nearly as many square feet as One Indiana Square. The project, at the corner of 86th Street and Keystone Avenue, would add up to 3 million square feet of retail, office and residential space to a thriving corridor in one of the most aggressive and expensive projects city planners ever have seen.


Previous blog coverage:
Plan calls for mixed-use giant
Premier project gets a name - Venu
Venu taking 'green' to a new level


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Woodfield Crossing


Woodfield Crossing Site Plan

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  • MartyMay 29, 2007 8:44 AM
    Glad to see a mixed use redevelopment project of a strip shopping center in the city limits of Indy. That area is ready for more density. Looks like a great project. Now if we could only get mass transit into this area.
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  • IvoMay 29, 2007 8:59 AM
    Best site plan (and a real gem for the city) I've ever seen in Indy! This is exactly the kind of redevelopment needed. This plan will set a new (much higher) bar for redevelopment in our city!!
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  • Watch4NIMBYsMay 29, 2007 1:06 PM
    Ditto the first two comments; this is a great plan for an area that can and should handle this kind of density. But watch out for the NIMBYs; they're very active around there. Remember all the grief they raised over the Whole Foods development on the northwest corner of this same intersection? They don't have a zoning leg to stand on, but watch for the complaints to start rolling in about traffic, etc.
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  • ryanMay 29, 2007 4:08 PM
    awesome project! it has some vision which is refreshing...unfortunately, like the above post states, beware of the driftwood hills area. ruth hayes is a force to be reckoned with. how sad it would be if this is derailed due to a few hundred residents when this could be a benefit for over a million living in the met area - great project!
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  • AnonymousMay 29, 2007 9:18 PM
    Yeah, I can just see Ruth Hayes' little wrinkled face when she sees this. She'll be up for weeks straight finding ways to reduce this to nothing more than another bland strip mall. Some of these neighborhood reps scare me in their complete and utter phobia of density.
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  • S. L. MooreMay 30, 2007 3:38 PM
    Glad to see something done with this site. That corner has been slowly deteriorating. Perhaps the construction will rid the area of some of the coyotes running around here before they attack a child playing in their back yard! None of the movers and shakers seem to be too concerned about that but they can't wait to put up a cry against progress and expansion.
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  • If Only You Knew...May 30, 2007 3:42 PM
    This developer is smart. He started working WITH neighbors months ago. He's made alterations to the site plan and worked hard to win their support.

    The CORRECT way to treat a neighborhood when you want a redevelopment.

    Listening, Mr. Kite?
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  • SammiJune 3, 2007 1:57 AM
    Since this is such a great, striking project and looks like something you would find in a major city (like Houston's Galleria area) it probably won't ever break ground.
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  • JimJune 20, 2007 12:27 AM
    You better believe that by the time Ruth Hayes and the rest of the crazies are done with this project it will be nothing more than a panera bread, a starbucks and a gas station.
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  • RachelJune 20, 2007 9:50 AM
    This will be such a nightmare. There is too much traffic on 86th Street & Keystone Ave that both roads back up several times a week. If there is any kind of bad weather, rain or snow, or an accident or even a concert at Verizon all roads in this area come to a complete stop. If they want to add this much development, then the roads around the entire area need to be upgraded to handle the add'l traffic flow. 86th Street can't handle non-rush hour traffic most days. Premier needs to put some money to help with this traffic upgrade since we know the city can't afford it.
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  • MarkJune 21, 2007 10:01 PM
    I work at Woodfield at the Crossing and the traffic isnt bad at all.
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  • BrianSeptember 3, 2007 5:37 PM
    Does anyone know whats going on with the Woodfield proposal? Is it a go yet? Any timeline for it?
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