Last remaining buildings on east-side RCA site set to come down
The structures should be demolished by summer, clearing the way for redevelopment of the massive site now known as Sherman Park.
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Sprawling east-side RCA site finally could be ripe for redevelopment
The city is seeking bids to demolish the remaining building at the northeast corner of Michigan and LaSalle streets, potentially clearing the 49-acre property for reuse.
Carrier plant closing shows vagaries of modern manufacturing
The Indianapolis HVAC plant had taken numerous steps to improve efficiency, but they weren't enough to overcome the labor savings that go with shifting the work to Mexico.
Unintentional entrepreneur parlayed consumer-electronics savvy into PR firm
Arland Communications, run by former Thomson Consumer Electronics spokesman Dave Arland, is the only area firm focused entirely on the $200 billion-plus annual consumer electronics market.
RCA brand lives on, sans Nipper and Chipper
In a plot right out of Jurassic Park, Thomson Consumer Electronics’ old brands such as RCA and Proscan have been revived from old DNA. They’ve been licensed to companies around the world including Indianapolis-based company that operates as RCA Commercial Electronics.
Former Thomson site may be ripe for development
The vacant 49-acre Sherman Park business complex might finally be redeveloped now that the owner has exited bankruptcy and demolition has started on its main building.
Former Thomson site may finally be ripe for redevelopment
The vacant Sherman Park business complex on the east side has been taken from a private developer in a bankruptcy reorganization, and several parcels of the 49-acre property are listed in the county's annual tax sale.
WFMS property fetches $625,000 bid in county tax sale
Suburban New Orleans investment firm National Tax Asset Fund LLC placed the bid during the Marion County tax sale that ended Friday. WFMS parent Cumulus Media Inc. owns the property and owes more than $80,000 in back taxes.
Former RCA industrial site to get $20M rehab
A Bloomington company that revived a former Thomson Consumer Electronics/RCA plant in that city is taking a shot at redeveloping
one of the largest industrial eyesores in Indianapolis, also a former RCA complex. Pinnacle Properties plans to spend $20
million redeveloping the 13-building property northwest of Sherman Drive and East Michigan Street.
Lilly rescues tennis tournament
A major sponsorship upgrade by local drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. and a quartet of new corporate partners has helped the Indianapolis
Tennis Championships stem its losses after the departure of its title sponsor.
St. Vincent taking over Thomson HQ
A shrunken Thomson, the former manufacturer of RCA
televisions, is vacating a landmark office building at its Carmel headquarters to make way for St. Vincent Health, the parent
company of a growing chain of Indiana hospitals.
RCA ends 15-year run as sponsor of tennis tournament
After a 15-year run–the longest on the ATP Tour’s North American Circuit–Thomson Consumer Electronics’ RCA brand is ending its title sponsorship of Indianapolis’ professional men’s tennis tournament.