Wabash College plans $13 million football stadium
The stadium will have seating for 3,550 fans across the main grandstand, suites and the W Club Lounge.
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Convention center planning much-needed Wi-Fi upgrade in 2020
The past-its-prime Wi-Fi system at the Indiana Convention Center could get a big boost in 2020, as its owner looks to make $5.7 million in enhancements to the venue.
Jimmy John’s takes lead in King Cole exodus
The sandwich shop will move a few blocks away as a developer makes plans to convert the building into a hotel. Also this week: Native Bread, VetIQ and Paco’s Taqueria.
Jury rules against photographer who sued hundreds over Indy skyline image
The outcome raises the possibility that former defendants will retaliate and seek the fees and costs they incurred when Richard Bell filed lawsuits against them.
Arby’s parent firm buys Jimmy John’s Sandwiches
The fast-sandwich chain was founded in 1983 in Illinois and now has 2,800 locations in 43 states. There are 22 in Indianapolis proper and more than a dozen more in the surrounding metropolitan area.
Louie’s Wine Dive, Taste Cafe close College Avenue sites while eyeing revivals
The owner of Taste plans to reopen early next year in a new space within a mile of the former restaurant at 52nd Street and College Avenue.
After delay, developer moving ahead with $46M canal apartment project
Louisville-based Investment Property Advisors is planning 279 additional units and more than 28,000 square feet of retail space just south of its 9 on Canal project, to be dubbed 350 West.
After 105 years, Brenner Luggage closes last store
In 1914, Charles Brenner started manufacturing his first products—fiber board suitcases and traveling bags—in a factory on the south side of Indianapolis. A sign now posted inside Brenner Luggage’s last retail location says it’s closed permanently.
Courtney Cole, one half of Hare Chevrolet’s ‘Sisters of Savings,’ dies after cancer battle
Cole and sister Monica Peck took over the business in 2008 from their parents, just as the Great Recession was gathering steam. They more than doubled their sales after the “Sisters of Savings” radio ad campaign began.
Brownsburg’s newly built downtown starting to fill up
Through a series of developer partnerships that included $53 million in private funding, more than $90 million worth of new buildings and infrastructure improvements have been added along or near North Green Street.
Is Westfield growing too fast?
As Westfield’s housing stock and population balloons—following the rapid growth Carmel and Fishers have experienced for more than a decade—some residents are concerned too much development is coming too fast. And they’re pushing back.
IndyGo to harness data to pitch partnerships with employers
The transit system is in the early stages of a plan to gather data on the employers and schools along its bus lines and develop specific pitches to persuade their employees or students to ride—and maybe cajole the employers to subsidize the cost.
Developers planning $25M development on former brownfield site
The city has spent the past several years remediating the former railyard site and marketing it for potential development.
Owner proposes 22-story addition to downtown’s Morrison Opera Place
Plans for the development include a 220-room hotel and 32 residential units. The addition would boost the existing historic building from four to 26 stories.
Hidden dropouts: How Indiana schools write off departing students as home-schoolers
When students are recorded as leaving for home schools in Indiana, they’re left out of a school’s graduation calculations, as though they never attended at all.
Honda spending $4.2M, adding 34 jobs to produce hybrid CR-V in Greensburg
The CR-V Hybrid will be introduced in early 2020 and will be the company’s first electrified sport-utility vehicle in the United States. It is part of Honda’s larger plan to apply its two-motor, hybrid-electric system to all of its core U.S. models in the coming years.
Finally meeting with media, Vinatieri says he just needed time to clear his head
In his first public comments since leaving the stadium Sunday, the NFL’s career scoring leader explained he misspoke when saying he would answer questions on the players’ normal day off—a comment that drove speculation about Vinatieri’s possible NFL exit.
Developer acquires Carmel shopping center, seeks grocer for former O’Malia space
KennMar has acquired the Brookshire Village Shoppes retail center and is working to fill the anchor space, which has been empty since Marsh closed the O’Malia Food Market there in summer 2017.
Water-management software firm 120WaterAudit lands $7M in funding
Zionsville-based 120WaterAudit plans to use the funds to improve its digital water-program-management platform and expand sales and marketing.
Tech executive Josh Owens jumping into race for governor
The Shelbyville native has never held elected office, and his only campaign experience was an unsuccessful run for an at-large seat on the Indianapolis Public Schools board in 2014.