Halakar Properties reemerges after national partner ends affiliation
The local Halakar real estate firm no longer is affiliated with Newmark Knight Frank, which has poached a former Halakar co-owner to start an Indianapolis office.
The local Halakar real estate firm no longer is affiliated with Newmark Knight Frank, which has poached a former Halakar co-owner to start an Indianapolis office.
The 92-year-old building at Washington and Pennsylvania streets was not on the market when the hotel chain approached its owners late last year.
The 36-story Regions Tower is selling in a negotiated transaction, and the 30-story Market Tower is getting a new owner via a loan default. They are among downtown’s largest office complexes.
Office brokers say the 662,000-square-foot-building, downtown’s third largest, could fetch more than $60 million, or about $100 a square foot.
The landlord of the downtown building that houses Jillian’s, which filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this week, wants the restaurant and entertainment complex out of its building, alleging the tenant owes nearly $700,000.
New apartment projects carrying premium rents are popping up all over downtown, but the strong demand for urban living isn't providing much of a boost for the condo market.
Top commercial real estate firms have been playing a name game of late, picking up or dropping national affiliations in a broad realignment of the city’s brokerage business.
The owners of a downtown skyscraper badly damaged in a 2006 storm are suing their insurance company after it halted payments
on a facade-replacement project. The suit, filed April 1, accuses the insurance company of a “bad faith” attempt to avoid
paying for repairs to the 36-story One Indiana Square building at the northeast corner of Pennsylvania and Ohio streets.
The city’s oldest skyscraper will get a sleek new look starting this summer, when workers are scheduled to begin installing
a glass-covered curtain wall to replace a storm-scarred facade. Renovation of One Indiana Square should begin in June and
continue for two years.