In a deposition aired during an estate hearing, Bren Simon described her stepchildren as spoiled, vicious and hurtful,
and
said they refused to accept her as family during 37 years of marriage to late mall billionaire Melvin Simon.
Details of years of squabbling between family members of the shopping mall magnate Mel Simon have begun to emerge in a court
battle over the late billionaire's estate.
A neighborhood grocery store is planned for the former home of Tutwiler Cadillac at the southwest corner of Meridian and 24th
streets.
Several new restaurants have filed plans to open in the Indianapolis area, including a replacement for the long-vacant Bahama Breeze along 96th Street, and a new pizza joint in the Century Building downtown.
Plans for a new headquarters for locally based CSO Architects will mean new life for a vacant eyesore at Keystone at the Crossing.
Check out the rendering showing the company's vision for the 24,000-square-foot former Bally Total Fitness facility.
The founder of an Indianapolis real estate firm is accused of preying on longtime friends to help a Miami man perpetrate a
$900 million Ponzi scheme. Sydney “Jack” Williams persuaded more than a dozen Indiana investors to lend millions
of dollars at high interest rates to a food brokerage firm called Capitol Investments USA Inc.
Locally based CSO Architects Inc. is working on plans to remodel a former Bally Total Fitness location at Keystone at the
Crossing into its new headquarters.
Check out a brand new rendering of the redevelopment of the Penn Arts building.
The CEO of the parent company of Steak n Shake spent $40.8 million to acquire more than 134,000 shares in May and June. He
now controls about 202,000 shares, or 14 percent of the 1.4 million shares outstanding.
Wall Street bankers for decades sold municipalities like Indianapolis on debt instruments called swaps as a safe way to reduce
borrowing costs and hedge against rising interest rates. In reality, the swaps were complicated bets that relied
on misguided assumptions, and taxpayers paid.
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.
Government officials and construction contractors today unveiled several planned upgrades for the Birch Bayh Federal Building
and U.S. Courthouse downtown. The $69.3-million project is slated for
completion by August 2012.
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.
Will the latest ambitious downtown development proposal finally master the formula for transforming a downtown surface parking
lot?
A flea market is replacing a former bowling alley. Plus: A new candy shop planned for Noblesville; Monical’s heads to Lawrence;
and Panda Express eyes IUPUI campus.
Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank has filed to foreclose on the historic five-story Janus Lofts building at 240 S. Meridian St.
The longtime accounting firm for Simon family interests objected to subpoenas it received from Melvin Simon’s daughter
Deborah, saying the information
requested was far too broad.
Deals for both Nordstrom and Carson Pirie Scott are up for renewal in the coming months.
Catch up on news about a new retailer, new locations for existing retailers and a couple of restaurant moves in the latest
installment of Around Town Retail Roundup.
The developers repairing two long-vacant buildings at Washington and Meridian streets has released a new rendering of the
project.
