Neighbors turn to courts to fight developments
Neighbors in at least four neighborhoods opposed to approved real estate projects are refusing to acquiesce and instead are mounting court challenges in hopes of stopping developments.
Neighbors in at least four neighborhoods opposed to approved real estate projects are refusing to acquiesce and instead are mounting court challenges in hopes of stopping developments.
A developer wants to build a $20 million office and retail building at the northwest corner of East 86th Street and North Keystone Avenue.
A par-3 golf course on the city’s north side could be replaced by a $45 million apartment community with nearly 400 units, much to the chagrin of neighbors opposing the massive project.
The Indiana Board of Tax Review ruled in December that the East 96th Street Meijer store—one of the most successful in the state—should have been assessed in 2012 at the equivalent of $30 per square foot, not the $83 per square foot assigned by Marion County.
The retailer had filed plans to rezone nearly an acre along East 56th Street and Keystone Avenue for a 200,000-square-foot store, which neighbors argued would bring too much traffic to the area.
A Wisconsin developer has beefed up plans for the southwest corner of East 86th Street and Keystone Avenue across from The Fashion Mall at Keystone.