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An Indianapolis-based developer has submitted plans to build a 262-unit apartment complex less than a mile south of downtown Whitestown.
Brendan Majev, vice president of development with Brown Capital Group LLC, told members of the Whitestown Plan Commission last week that the development group hopes to break ground later this year on Mills on Main, which would be built on about 15.6 acres at 3689 S. Main St.
Mills on Main would include 10 three-story apartment buildings, six one-story garages, one 3,250-square-foot amenity building and outdoor pickleball courts. There would be a total of 402 parking spaces at the apartment complex.
One of the apartment buildings would include about 2,700 square feet of retail space on the first floor, while the other nine buildings would be strictly residential. Majev said a coffee shop could be housed in the retail space.
Indigo Blue Boulevard, which currently winds through the neighboring Bridle Oaks subdivision and ends at Main Street/County Road 650 East, would be extended through the Mills on Main complex.
The Carmel office of Raleigh, North Carolina-based Kimley-Horn is the engineering consultant working on Mills on Main.
Members of the Whitestown Plan Commission unanimously approved a concept plan, primary plat and an amendment to the Bridle Oaks Planned Unit Development to allow retail at Mills on Main. The project will next move to the Whitestown Town Council.
Jarod Brown launched Brown Capital Group in 2022 after he worked for five years as chief development officer for Indianapolis-based Birge & Held Asset Management.
Brown Capital Group has also developed Greenview Apartments, a 216-unit development at 5875 Perry Worth Road, northwest of Interstate 65’s Exit 130. The firm is also working to develop another apartment community adjacent to Greenview Apartments called The Grove.
Mills on Main is the latest housing development to be planned in fast-growing Whitestown.
The community west of Zionsville, along Interstate 65, has grown from fewer than 500 residents in 2000 to more than 14,500, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Most of that growth has come in the last decade, and town officials believe the population will reach 25,000 in the next decade.
Residential, retail and industrial growth is most evident near I-65’s Exit 130, in the $1 billion, 1,700-acre Anson mixed-use development that includes the $250 million, 2.7-million-square-foot industrial 65 Commerce Park. On the southern edge of Anson, two big-box retailers—Meijer and Lowe’s—have spurred more retail.
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The local coffee shop on Main Street does not need any additional competition. I hope they include some other type of retail store or just create all residential space.
If you get crime reports from the region like I do you would understand that most of them are calls to apartment complexes. Apartments do not pay for themselves either. Why Whitestown feels it needs to rubberstamp every development that comes along is a mystery to me. Ask anyone from Carmel and they will tell you traffic, crime, and inconvenience are major problems these days since they have allowed so many apartments to be built.
And these fancy new apartments that they’re building today in 30 years will be obsolete and will be lower class and rents will be cut in order to fill these units. They need to look at what happened along 38th Street at the meadows. Those used to be upscale apartments when they were built and you see what happened to them.