Frona Mae Dessert Cafe is coming to East Washington Street in space formerly occupied by an upscale bar, and several pizza joints are in various stages of opening in the metro area.
The complex, called American Place, would contain Indiana's smallest casino, 1.2 million square feet of retail space, 200 condominiums, 25 high-end hotel suites, a conference and performance center, offices, a movie theater with moving seats and a health club.
Deylen Realty is requesting the abatement to offset the cost of building Forte, a 64-unit apartment-and-retail project on part of a surface lot that had been owned by the city.
Van Rooy Properties plans to spend more than $3.5 million to convert the crumbling structure into market-rate apartments while also constructing a new building on an adjacent lot to the west.
Emboldened by the proposed development of a Marriott hotel, and prospects for another new hotel, the group that promotes downtown’s south side is beginning to lay the groundwork to transform the largely ignored area into a destination.
Ironworks at Keystone will boast a new-to-Indy burger joint this month, as a tea shop pours into the nearby Fashion Mall. In Fletcher Place, the new restaurant Repeal harkens back to 1933.
Five of the six buildings that Indianapolis Public Schools put on the block last month have attracted offers, with bidders appearing to lean toward renovating several as apartments.
Indianapolis has joined about a dozen cities in hiring a California startup to develop a portal designed to help small business owners cut through red tape.
An Illinois-based developer has received the first approval necessary to build a 140-room extended-stay hotel downtown, as Indy’s lodging market continues to swell.
Fine artist Kyle Ragsdale grew up in Texas and spent years in New Mexico. But when it came time to put down roots in Indianapolis, where he’s lived since the 1990s, he chose the Fountain Square neighborhood.
Also a tastemaker at Plow & Anchor, John Adams now is teaming with retail broker Brian Epstein to open Marrow in Fountain Square, where Maria’s Pizza was located.
The organization's bold plan would turn several vacant homes into artist residences and transform two commercial buildings into exhibition spaces, a radio station and an artist-curated record store.
Neal Brown is looking to open the restaurant in Fletcher Place. The area’s renaissance also continues with plans to renovate a building for commercial use a few blocks away.
The arts-focused Big Car Collaborative, birthed in Fountain Square in 2004 and most recently headquartered at Lafayette Square Mall, has found a permanent place to park on Indianapolis’ south side.
The university plans to break ground later this month on the four-story apartment building that will house up to 480 students along the Shelby Street corridor.
A plan to save the 1927 structure is beginning to take shape as part of a larger effort to transform the three-block stretch of East 10th surrounding the Rivoli into a magnet for arts-based organizations.
