
Data center projects facing local pushback
Four data center proposals in the Indianapolis area are facing a dynamic that’s emerging here and elsewhere: The operators working to build data centers here vs. the neighbors trying to stop them.
Four data center proposals in the Indianapolis area are facing a dynamic that’s emerging here and elsewhere: The operators working to build data centers here vs. the neighbors trying to stop them.
The Courtyards of Heritage Trail would be Epcon’s eighth and largest Courtyard community in the metropolitan area.
A community-led effort hopes to establish Crooked Creek Cultural Campus near the northwest intersection of West 62nd Street and Michigan Road, with a 200-seat theater and community center nestled in eight wooded acres.
Plans call for Park and Poplar to have apartments, brownstones, office and retail space, and a parking garage.
The plan for the Reserve at Union Woodlands was opposed by residents living in rural Zionsville and raised safety concerns from executives with the nearby Indianapolis Executive Airport.
A proposed 147-acre residential and commercial development continues to face opposition from nearby residents and Indianapolis Executive Airport officials.
Plans unveiled last year for Monon Square South called for a food hall, community gathering space, 45,000 square feet of office space, a 190-unit apartment building and a 602-space public parking garage.
Developer Monarch Ventures LLC, which has submitted plans to build Skylake Adventure Park on 126 acres of agricultural land, expects the park to attract about 500,000 visitors per year.
Plans call for a five-story dual-branded TownePlace Suites and Springhill Suites hotel with 136 rooms.
In 2022, Iowa-based Hy-Vee said it would build a pair of 150,000-square-foot stores in the suburbs north of Indianapolis: one in Zionsville and another in Fishers. The company hasn’t broken ground at either site.
While the exterior of the Intech Two building will remain largely the same, Indianapolis-based Ghoman Group plans to gut the interior to create a 140-unit hotel accompanied by a restaurant and conference center.
The decision comes as developers seek to build a colocation site—a data center with multiple tenants—on a portion of the 626 acres.
The developer behind plans to overhaul the 36-acre Devington Plaza shopping center on the east side of Indianapolis is going back to the drawing board.
A Denver-based company is seeking to build a data center campus on about 285 acres of the 626-acre property.
The neighborhood proposal comes as the group pushes New York-based Skysoar Capital Partners to reconsider its plan for the nearly abandoned site.
An Indianapolis partnership alleges one of the university’s professors and five former students interfered with contracts for a business development project in Puerto Rico.
The hall of fame, founded in 2020, does not have a physical location and operates through its website and events.
An out-of-state investment firm with plans to redevelop a rundown east-side retail center intends to refine its approach to the project weeks after hearing objections from neighbors—some of whom have their own ideas for the property.
The plan would feature approximately 366 apartment units, 60,000 square feet of medical office space, 12,500 square feet of retail space and 447 parking spaces.
The 92-apartment development, which would feature one- to three-bedroom units, would consist of market rate and reduced-income housing, with the latter meant to serve homeless veterans.