Town Center eyed for Bloomington
One of the companies promoting Hamilton County’s Saxony is also leasing a new town center project in Bloomington. The 575-acre development would sit northwest of the intersection of State Road 37 and…
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Around town retail roundup
Several new stores and restaurants have filed plans to open locations all over the city. Wherever you live, chances are there’s something coming nearby. North: The area’s first location for salad-focused Tossed…
Red Robin, Red Robin …
Colorado-based burger chain Red Robin is entering the Indianapolis market in a big way starting later this month. The chain plans to open its first location in Plainfield on June 18. It…
Cabela’s getting $18M in city bonds
The city of Greenwood plans to help with financing on a Cabela’s store at the southeast corner of Interstate 65 and County Line Road. The Nebraska-based outdoors retailing giant has a deal to…
Redevelopment in Greenwood area
Southsiders may have wondered what’s going on at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and County Line Road, across from Lowe’s and McDonald’s. Well, wonder no more. Locally based Peacock Companies is planning a new retail strip with outlots including…
A shopping center by any other name
I’ve got news on The Shoppes at Providence at Old Meridian, a new mixed-use project in Carmel. But first, a question: What’s the deal with the name? And second: What suggestions do you have for even more pretentious ones? How…
LA Fitness proposed for West Carmel
People on the northwest side could get another fitness option to go with a brand new Gold’s Gym that just opened near 86th Street and Michigan Road. A development fact sheet from…
Mann pitching new projects
Locally based Mann Properties is pitching retailers in Las Vegas this week on a couple of mixed-use developments slated for the north side: A project with 132 townhomes and a retail strip called Creekside Shoppes would be built along 86th…
North side project to include Paradise
A two-building office and retail complex at the corner of Meridian and 96th Street will include a Paradise Bakery & Cafe and a McAlister’s Deli. Landmark Properties is developing the 45,700-square-foot project…
North side retail nuggets
A new Yats restaurant has opened in Fishers, at 8352 E. 96th St. The Cajun and Creole favorite is next door to a Blockbuster half a mile east of Interstate 69. The locally owned restaurant also has locations on College…
Downtown getting home shops
People living downtown won’t have to wait for a proposed Target to go home shopping closer to home. Carson Pirie Scott is renovating 25,000 square feet of its space on the third floor of Circle Centre mall for a new…
Target proposed for MSA site
A partnership of Hearthview Residential, Mansur Real Estate Services, Lauth and Venture Real Estate has proposed a complex including a 14-story tower along with a Target store, office space and condos for the…
Year after smoking ban, only 9 businesses have been fined
County health inspectors have hardly blown the door down on huffers and puffers a year into the city’s smoking ordinance.
The Marion County Health Department took 209 complaints and issued citations against only nine businesses for fines totaling
$1,000 during the first year of the law.
New Nordstrom an obstacle for fragile downtown mall
When Nordstrom in 1992 signed its lease to open in Circle Centre, mall developers extracted an unusual commitment. The Seattle company agreed not to open another Indianapolis-area store for at least five years. So when Nordstrom last month announced it will launch a second location here, in The Fashion Mall at Keystone, it caught the attention of Herman Renfro, a former Simon Property Group Inc. development executive who oversaw Circle Centre.
Kipps Brothers still evolving after 125 years
Walk through the Kipp Brothers showroom and you’ll find the makings of one heck of a birthday celebration: gag gifts galore, endless sugary treats and headgear that puts the traditional party hat to shame.