EDITORIAL: East 10th Street project can be repeated
When people see what’s happening on and near East 10th Street—and they will, thanks to the Super Bowl connection—they’ll see what’s possible and, we hope, join similar efforts.
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Legal fight over Pan Am Plaza outpaces redevelopment
Plaintiffs are challenging the city’s 2007 decision to waive a hefty fee that otherwise would have been required to redevelop the crumbling site.
Site chosen for proposed Westfield sports complex
The Hamilton County sports and recreation campus—known as the "Family Sports Capital of America"—is expected to occupy 300 acres and cost millions to fully develop.
Dolce hotel, YMCA part of city-funded ‘North of South’ development
The city plans to issue bonds and use tax-increment financing to fund the $150M project, which also will include 320 high-end apartments and 40,000 square feet of retail space. Construction should begin this year.
$150M ‘North of South’ project moving ahead
Officials are announcing details of an ambitious downtown development planned for 10 acres Eli Lilly and Co. owns near its Indianapolis headquarters. The project will include a hotel, apartments, restaurants and retail space and a YMCA.
East-side residents forge $100M plan to renew neighborhood
Since 2004, residents and community leaders in the area just east of downtown—including Boner Center chief James Taylor—have raised more than $100 million to improve their neighborhood. The deployment of so many resources to one area is almost unprecedented in Indianapolis.
City meets deadline to get federal money for housing projects
The $29 million will be used to acquire and demolish or rehabilitate foreclosed and abandoned homes.
Developer seeks rezoning for Canal apartments
The city’s Division of Planning was set to hear a request Thursday afternoon by Valparaiso-based Investment Property Advisors LLC to rezone property near the Central Canal for a 150-unit apartment complex.
Indiana Convention Center might need yet another expansion
The current expansion has absorbed the last of the adjoining space, leaving the convention center landlocked.
Tired-but-proud school buildings find new missions
More unneeded buildings are slated to be sold off by Indianapolis Public Schools, but creative people have turned other former schools into reuse gems.
Hoosier Lottery moving to Meridian Street building
The lottery will move in January to the Buick, a 60,000-square-foot building at 13th and Meridian streets owned by principals of Shiel Sexton Construction.
Church with rich history sues to shed ‘historic’ label
The designation scotched a deal with CVS that would have funded construction of a new church at another location.
Tower manager proposes 4th Artsgarden skywalk
Reit Management & Research LLC made a presentation Wednesday to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission for its plans to build a pedestrian walkway between Circle Centre mall and PNC Center.
State gets $31M for blighted neighborhoods
The state of Indiana and several of its communities hard-hit by home foreclosures are getting $31.5 million in federal grants to stabilize blighted neighborhoods.
New outlook for a decrepit city neighborhood
Just a few minutes northeast of vibrant Monument Circle lurks the most notorious graveyard of Indianapolis’ industrial heyday—at least 70 of the city’s 500 brownfields. Now planners and developers aspire to revitalize the most contaminated neighborhood in Indianapolis into a success story.
Lauth revival hinges on judge approving settlement
The deal with financial backer Inland American Real Estate Trust would leave Lauth Group with fewer properties but a more manageable debt load.
Property at busy crossroads finally attracts buyer
Environmental and zoning issues had made the property at the southwest corner of Keystone Avenue and Kessler Boulevard difficult
to sell.
Groundbreaking nears for $4.5M apartment project
The 62-unit project called National Apartments on the Monon is the latest phase of the Martindale on the Monon redevelopment
project, which began in 2005. The developer is Indianapolis-based Development Concepts Inc.
Apartment developer S.C. Bodner sued over accessibility
The National Fair Housing Alliance and two of its member groups allege that Bodner communities in eight states including Indiana violate accessibility requirements of the Fair Housing Act.
Reverie Estate buys another downtown Indianapolis apartment building
The prolific developer of urban apartments plans to turn the building into an affordable artists’ community.