The eatery focusing on ramen, rice bowls and banh mi sandwiches will be operated by the same husband-and-wife team that owns General American Donut Co.
More than a year after vacating its base of operations in Fountain Square, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art has landed on a new long-term location on the city’s near-east side.
The plan for the development, slated just east of the neighborhood’s commercial core, required reaching out to property owners on Prospect Street and collaborating with neighborhood officials.
Bill Taft, leader of the influential Indianapolis office for the Local Initiatives Support Corp. since 2005, has been named senior vice president for economic development for LISC National.
Litz & Eaton Development Co. and its two affiliates have grown from annual revenue of $1 million in 2011, the year residential developer Brad Litz and custom homebuilder John Eaton founded the company, to an expected $40 million this year.
Owners Taki and Jeanette Sawi said the restaurant’s last day of operations will be Saturday, but some of the eatery’s menu items will still be available at another venue.
It will be the third location for Fat Dan’s, a Chicago-style deli that also operates downtown and near Broad Ripple. The owner is taking his time with the transition to get to know the Carmel market.
The goal is to showcase—and hopefully fill—some now-vacant downtown retail spaces. Artists and vendors are being recruited, and the pop-up spaces should be active in May.
Serial restaurateur Mike Cunningham’s stable of eateries has swelled to 24,and he’s taking over the closed Old Point Tavern on Massachusetts Avenue and Cerulean at The Alexander hotel in CityWay.
Under a Central Indiana Community Foundation plan, Theatre on the Square will cease producing shows and will instead find an arts group to manage its venue for other theater organizations.
Chicago-based Mer Car Corp. owns the 95,700-square-foot strip center anchored by a Kroger, where Southeastern and English avenues meet, just west of where the justice center is set to be built.
Cerulean, LongBranch and Barcelona Tapas are among the eateries that closed, but Indy welcomed Burger Study, Crispy Bird, Open Society Public House and more.
Slayings in Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis are becoming concentrated into small areas where people are dying at a pace not seen in years, if ever. Around them, much of the rest of the city is growing more peaceful, even as the total number of homicides rises.
When downtown’s upscale Cerulean stops serving on Dec. 31, it will mark the end of a brutal year for the local restaurant industry marked by an unusually high number of closings.
