Home tour: Cottage Home place has cool little carriage house
Bill Pritt, owner of FortyFive Degrees restaurant at College and Massachusetts avenues, has moved from the main house to the apartment above the garage.
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Buyers must make good offers quickly to snag homes in sizzling market
An especially low inventory of homes for sale is driving up prices and requiring buyers to take unusual steps to secure the places they want.
Area home sales still climbing amid escalating prices, fewer choices
The total number of active home listings in the 15-county central Indiana region dropped 25 percent from the end of May 2017 to the end of last month.
Dora, Lauth propose hotel, office building on North Meridian corridor
Dora Hospitality Group and Lauth Group hope to bring a new Hilton brand to the market as part of mixed-use development north of the Ritz Charles hospitality venue.
Former Toys ‘R’ Us CEO exploring comeback for failed retailer
The final store closures for iconic retail chain Toys “R” Us are slated for this week. But an executive who oversaw the store a decade ago is looking into whether some kind of reboot is possible.
First phase of housing effort aimed at educators nears completion
Organizers of the affordable-housing and neighborhood-revival effort, designed to attract and retain teachers for urban schools, are set to unveil the first 15 homes.
Developer, Carmel VFW come to agreement on new hotel
A proposal to build an 88-room extended-stay hotel on Old Meridian Street in Carmel is gaining traction after city leaders and the neighboring Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10003 had initially opposed it.
Demand for new homes in Indianapolis area stays on torrid pace
Single-family construction permit filings in the nine-county area have been on the rise in 28 of the last 30 months on a year-over-year basis.
IPS considers selling downtown headquarters
The building, which sits on a 1.7-acre lot at 120 E. Walnut St., has served as the district's home since 1960.
Comedy club chain signs lease for downtown location inside Circle Centre mall
The owner of Helium Comedy Clubs says he saw lots of opportunity in the Indianapolis metro area, where at least two major comedy venues have closed since last fall.
Golf superstore in expansion drive to open 82nd Street location in former Babies ‘R’ Us
This will be the first Indiana location for Georgia-based PGA Tour Superstore, which currently has 33 locations and is growing quickly by securing sites vacated by Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us.
The Thirsty Scholar bar closes
A co-owner of the coffee, beer and wine bar in the Penn Arts building on East 16th Street said Thursday that “it is time to move on.”
Simon hiring from within to replace departing CFO
Brian McDade has been with the retail real estate giant for 14 years, serving in various senior finance and accounting roles.
Real estate heavyweight CBRE moving from downtown to Keystone at Crossing
The city’s largest commercial brokerage has called downtown home for more than 35 years. It’s heading north to accommodate employees and consolidate offices.
Downtown’s forgotten south side ‘ready to explode’
Leaders of what’s known as Stadium Village on downtown’s southern edge have been waiting patiently for the area to pop; now, there’s finally enough activity to justify their hopes.
Memory Bank: Slovenian family opens grocery in Haughville
Joe Zeunik, part of a family of Slovenian immigrants, sold dry goods, hardware and groceries at 777 Haugh St. in the 1930s.
Developers come around, slowly, to different housing options in Noblesville
The kind of housing that caters to millennials and empty-nesters is finally on the upswing in Noblesville—although the growth in single-family homes is still increasing, too, city officials say.
Historic Fishers home to be moved to USA Parkway for public display
The Morris-Flanagan-Kincaid House, built in 1861, will move this summer to a roundabout near Ikea, Portillo’s and the Yard at Fishers District.
Workers sue after camera found in Goodwill store bathroom
A lawsuit by five employees of Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana says the organization failed to protect them from a man accused of recording bathroom videos at a suburban Indianapolis store.
IBJ Media moving to Monument Circle
The publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal and its sister newspapers plans to relocate in March to the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. headquarters building in the southeast quadrant of the Circle.