A section of roof fabric from the demolished RCA Dome will be used as a tarp to cover the old Herron School of Art’s so-called “main building” until Herron High School can afford to repair the dilapidated structure. Herron High, a charter school that is not affiliated with IUPUI’s Herron School, purchased the building and […]
A prominent Meridian-Kessler building at the corner of 49th and Pennsylvania streets has a new owner nearly a year-and-a-half after it first went up for sale. A group of local investors, led by Bryan Chandler of Eclipse Real Estate and Greg Rankin and John Bales of Venture Cos., purchased the 12,000-square-foot Hamaker Corner building in […]
American Cabaret Theatre’s announcement last week that it would move out of its longtime home at the Athenaeum on Massachusetts Avenue was more than two years in the making. “We just flat ran out of cash,” said Barbara Weaver Smith, the not-for-profit professional company’s board president. “There is no alternative at this moment in time.” […]
American Cabaret Theatre’s announcement last week that it would move out of its longtime home at the Athenaeum on Massachusetts Avenue was more than two years in the making. “We just flat ran out of cash,” said Barbara Weaver Smith, the not-for-profit professional company’s board president. “There is no alternative at this moment in time.” […]
The City of Anderson recently sold one of three former General Motors plants, and officials say they’re optimistic that they’ll soon find buyers for the remaining two sites, despite the sluggish economy. “Anderson hit bottom a long time ago,” said Diana Priser, the city’s deputy director of economic development. “We’re on our way back up.” […]
Developers are working on plans to build new residential or commercial space adjacent to two public-housing towers near Mass Ave downtown. The Indianapolis Housing Agency…
Two concrete public-housing towers near Mass Ave downtown can seem like a world apart from the bustling, pedestrian-friendly urban neighborhoods nearby. The Indianapolis Housing Agency is hoping to change that. The group is asking developers to pitch plans to build new residential or commercial space on land surrounding the 21-story John J. Barton Apartments at […]
Ivy Tech Community College is working with private developers on a plan to turn the old St. Vincent Hospital into a housing complex…
Ivy Tech Community College is working with private developers on a plan to turn the old St. Vincent Hospital on Fall Creek Parkway into a housing complex for Ivy Tech and IUPUI students. The developers, Paramount Realty Group and Alboher Development Co. Inc., would get the building and a 100-year land lease on the property […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels cautioned lawmakers about Indiana’s fiscal challenges during his State of the State speech last night, saying that drafting a new two-year budget this session will be full of hard decisions. But Daniels, sworn in to a second term on Monday, said spending restraints and other actions taken during his first term have […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels cautioned lawmakers about Indiana’s fiscal challenges during his State of the State speech last night, saying that drafting a new two-year budget this session will be full of hard decisions. But Daniels, sworn in to a second term on Monday, said spending restraints and other actions taken during his first term have […]
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has notified the City Market that the financially strapped city is phasing out its subsidies
to the historic downtown fixture, which account for one-quarter of the market’s nearly $1 million budget.
Apartment developer Christopher Piazza has closed on financing for a $1.2 million renovation of a 1914 apartment building
in Irvington.
–Consider a stop at the Indiana Historical Society some time in the next few weeks. Most of it–including the gift shop, “You are There: 1945 Hoosier Home Front” and the History Lab will be closing to the public beginning Jan….
Last Saturday’s Indiana Author Fair at the Indiana Historical Society not only brought to town a lot of Indiana authors. It also brought to town some of the bravest Indiana authors. A few slid there way from “the region,” sharing…
Tony Bennett, Indiana’s new superintendent of public instruction, says his priorities include restoring discipline to the
classroom, recruiting topnotch teachers and adequately compensating
them, increasing the percentage of education dollars spent directly on instruction, and reducing regulations so schools can
focus more on student instruction.
Indianapolis Museum of Art has decided to acquire the landmark home and gardens of late Cummins Inc. Chairman J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia. The Columbus house, designed in 1957 by architect Eero Saarinen and considered one of the best examples of the international Modernist aesthetic, will be donated to the museum by the […]
Blue Real Estate, a California firm that made a bundle selling West Coast office buildings at the market’s peak, has been
buying up local buildings and trying to learn the Indianapolis market.
CORRECTION A story last week on page 10A should have stated that renovation of the IndyFringe building at 719 E. St. Clair St. was paid for with $45,000 from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Foundation and $5,000 from the Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Three university projects, two of which contain green-building elements, dominated the most recent design awards presented
by the American Institute of Architects Indiana chapter. Of the four award winners, three involved college buildings: the
Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering at Purdue University, and
the Straw Bale Eco Center at Ball State University.
