Historic downtown building poised for overhaul
DLZ Indiana closed in September on the century-old building at 157 E. Maryland St. and plans to spend nearly $2.3 million renovating it.
DLZ Indiana closed in September on the century-old building at 157 E. Maryland St. and plans to spend nearly $2.3 million renovating it.
The historic structure at 709 N. Illinois St., along with a nearby parking lot, could be sold Wednesday afternoon. Declining membership and rising costs led the private club to seek a sale of the 160-year-old building.
City planners have downsized their renovation plans because project bids came in too high to meet the $2.7 million budget.
The building housing the not-for-profit’s current headquarters on the Central Canal is listed for $3.1 million. The not-for-profit is moving into the former Central Avenue Methodist Church in the spring.
Residents of Irvington are split over whether to support turning the former Indy East Motel into housing for homeless families.
More unneeded buildings are slated to be sold off by Indianapolis Public Schools, but creative people have turned other former schools into reuse gems.
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.
The designation scotched a deal with CVS that would have funded construction of a new church at another location.
The prolific developer of urban apartments plans to turn the building into an affordable artists’ community.
Bankrolled by yet another multimillionaire, the historic preservation group is preparing to move into a new headquarters
in Old Centrum, a former church now undergoing a big renovation.
The Rathskeller opened for lunch Tuesday, and the YMCA branch inside the Athenaeum Building will reopen in a limited capacity on Wednesday.
The talk of the town back in 1929, the Mediterranean-style house at 118 Ulen Blvd. is now simply home for husband and wife
Gary Katona and Jennifer Jones-Katona, former Indianapolis city dwellers who retreated to the quiet “town within a town”
15 years ago.
More than a dozen local companies have begun work on a three-year modernization of the Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S.
Courthouse in the state's largest individual project funded by the federal stimulus.
Budget cuts and low attendance prompted the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to announce in December that it intended
to close the historic site.
Auction turns up no buyers for the former home of the commanding general at Fort Benjamin Harrison and four condominiums at
the old Army base.
The former home of the commanding general at Fort Benjamin Harrison and four condominiums at the old army base are being auctioned June 17, a reflection of the difficulty of selling high-end condos in a soft real estate market.
A former elementary school built in 1905 is getting a new use for the second time since the last schoolchildren departed
in 1979.
Ivy Tech Community College is set to start new construction at a former hospital site next to its downtown Indianapolis campus.
Too few of the city's revitalization projects are connected by attractive sidewalks, streets, gardens and plazas.
Renovation work finally has begun on the building at 16th and Pennsylvania streets. Developer Christopher Piazza found two
equity partners for the project because banks were unwilling to lend.