One Indiana Square is getting its new fin features, designed in part to give the building a more vertical
and less boxy profile. They also are adding a splash of color. What do you think? (IBJ Photos/Robin Jerstad)
Apartment developer Christopher Piazza has closed on financing for a $1.2-million renovation of a 1914 apartment building in Irvington. The 31-unit…
Wow, you leave on vacation for a week, and miss this: Two Indianapolis businessmen are hoping to build a balloon-ride attraction within a 20-story, tubular steel tower….
When it comes to holiday shopping and charitable giving, act locally.
Some of the city’s most prominent commercial real estate brokers have resigned from locally owned Meridian Real Estate to
launch an Indianapolis affiliate of Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle.
With credit tight and the economy shaky, homeowners around the region are increasingly choosing to sell their properties on
a lease-to-own basis.
The millions of dollars they plunked down to buy stock in local companies over the past two years have shriveled in value,
leaving them way, way below break-even.
New car dealers, usually among the most resilient of all small businesses in weathering economic downturns, are hanging on
for dear life this time around, portending a shakeout among Indiana’s 520 dealers.
It has been a rough year for most in the real estate business. Home sales dropped precipitously, financing dried up and major projects hit the brakes. Will the carnage continue in 2009? Share your predictions. Blog host Cory Schouten is…
This month, we’re breaking our traditional restaurant reviewing format and offering a four-part look at the eateries at Indianapolis
International Airport.
Retail developers always have been an audacious breed. They spend millions to build shopping centers, confident that tenants will flock to fill the slots they didn’t prelease. To charge ahead these days takes more than the usual dose of intestinal fortitude. Everyone is nervous — from shoppers to lenders to retailers, many of which have […]
Young & Laramore is making what it says are “significant” staff cuts in the wake of losing the Steak n Shake account.
Aasif Bade started Ambrose Property Group with three employees this month.
The demise of apparel retailer Steve and Barry’s University Sportswear deals another blow to efforts to turn around the ailing
Lafayette Square Mall.
Indianapolis developer Kosene & Kosene is battling buyers over a $500 million condo project near Fort Myers.
The Hot Box pizza chain has reached a deal with a pair of veteran local restaurateurs to open two new locations in Carmel. The first, scheduled to open in January, will…
Slowing auto sales have forced Carmel-based Automotive Finance Corp., which lends money to car dealers to buy used vehicles
at auction, to take a big write-off on the declining value of its loan portfolio.
Charlie & Barney’s is quietly expanding into unorthodox niches, placing its product in unusual places — like convenience
stores.
HH Gregg has grown from a local to a national consumer electronic store chain and has its eye on expanding further, given
Circuit City’s bankruptcy filing.
Robert P. Stiller, a lifelong entrepreneur who built Green Mountain into a wholesale coffee giant with 7,000 customers and
$500 million in revenue, owns 3.4 million shares, or 17 percent of the Noble Roman’s company.
