A city zoning board has approved a developer’s request for a drug store drive-through as part of a mixed-use project to be built on the Indianapolis Star’s current headquarters property.

The not-for-profit is planning to move from its East 10th Street location to North Meridian Street as part of a larger city land swap deal involving the Indianapolis Fire Department. The final step: a $43 million mixed-use development on Mass Ave.

The developers plan to invest $16 million to transform the vacant, century-old building into 98 apartments, with first-floor retail or restaurant space, in a project dubbed Penn Street Tower.

Gander Mountain plans to open a store in Avon, Wal-Mart is expanding its presence in the metro area, and an Irish pub has opened downtown in space that’s had trouble keeping a longtime tenant.

The YMCA of Greater Indianapolis wants to build an 87,000-square-foot mixed-use development on a parking lot owned by Eli Lilly and Co. at the southwest corner of Alabama and South streets.

The local developer is seeking city approval for 57 units as part of a mixed-use project that calls for 3,100 square feet of retail space on property south of its Mozzo Apartments.

Frullati Cafe & Bakery, operated by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Kahala Corp., owes the mall at least $23,439 in back rent, according to a lawsuit filed Sept. 10 by landlord Simon Property Group Inc. in Marion Superior Court.

Daniel Jacobs plans to break ground in the spring on the first of three million-dollar houses to be built at the northeast corner of East North Street and North Park Avenue.

The Irvington Development Organization and Irvington Historical Society have received a $50,000 state grant to help repair the former post office building and make it marketable to a potential buyer.

Bar-restaurant lasts less than two years at former Music Mill spot; Starbucks taking new spot in Nora Plaza; Hamilton Town Center lands new tenants; and more.

Veteran custom homebuilder Ursula David moved into her modular home about a month ago and has eight more lots available in the Cottage Home Neighborhood.

A former office and warehouse is being converted into a modestly priced hotel along West 16th Street, about a block east of the Stadium Lofts project.

Redevelopment of a long-abandoned historic building on North Capitol Avenue is beginning to take shape and is just one of several projects that could help transform the three-block stretch.

Lincoln Square Pancake House has opened its eighth central Indiana location, at 2330 N. Meridian St. in the former home of a furniture shop next to Mercedes Benz of Indianapolis.

The $14M project should be finished late next year and will replace the confusing and often-dangerous Crawfordsville Road and 16th Street intersection near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The project would entail reconstruction of the brick-paved Circle and adjacent blocks along Meridian Street and Market Street. Construction could start in 2016.

The project would entail reconstruction of the brick-paved Circle and adjacent blocks along Meridian Street and Market Street. Work could begin in 2016.