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Kim and Todd Saxton: Go for the gold! But maybe not every time.
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Carmel distiller turns hand sanitizer pivot into a community fundraising platform
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Lebanon considering creating $13.7M in trails, green space for business park
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Local senior-living complex more than doubles assisted-living units in $5M expansion
Jack eyes 16th & Meridian
Burger chain Jack in the Box is working on plans to open its first Indiana restaurant along Meridian Street just south of 16th Street. The chain has worked up preliminary plans to build on about an acre south of the new CVS pharmacy, brokers said.
More chocolate, fewer newsstands
Sweets retailer Best Chocolate in Town has opened a second location in Chase Tower. Owner Elizabeth Garber has developed quite a following for her shop at 880 Massachusetts Ave. and now is offering a full selection of hand-made chocolates on the 2nd floor of Chase Tower with Bistro 111.
Plans emerge for old Winona
A few weeks back, IBJ reported on early proposals for the vacant former Winona Memorial Hospital. The five-story property
is saddled with about $2 million in unpaid taxes and soon will become public property. So far, two groups have stepped up
with ideas…
Deal to save winged canopy
A compromise between an historic preservation group and a local business owner will save an iconic “bat-wing” canopy outside a downtown gas station.
College Park theater closes
The AMC Loews College Park 14 movie theater has closed after a 25-year run at West 86th Street and Michigan Road. The outdated theater in the Walmart-anchored complex couldn’t compete with Showplace 12 at Traders Point, which opened a few years ago
Fountain Square getting cabaret
A new cabaret is planned for a one-story historic building at 1116 E. Prospect St. in Fountain Square. White Rabbit Cabaret will provide live entertainment (not adult-oriented), food and beverage service, performing arts classes, rehearsal space, workshops and special events
Co-op grocery plans take shape
Indy Food Cooperative plans to open the city’s first not-for-profit grocery store in a 70-year-old former appliance store along East 10th…
City wins in digital billboard bout
A Superior Court judge has sided with the Metropolitan Development Commission in a dispute over digital billboards. Outdoor advertising giant Lamar had sought a summary…
Former jail up for sale
The owner of a former Community Corrections jail facility at the southwest corner of Delaware and Maryland streets has put the building up for sale,…
Barley Island taking SI space
Noblesville’s Barley Island Brewing Co. is planning to open a second restaurant and brewhouse in the former home of Scholar’s Inn Bakehouse at the corner of…
Ambrosia plans downtown location
The owner of the popular Broad Ripple Italian restaurant Ambrosia plans to open a new location downtown on the first floor of the Hampton Inn along Maryland Street. The…
Privatize parking meters?
City officials are considering several proposals to modernize and even privatize the city's roughly 4,000 parking
meters to squeeze out more revenue.
Weigh in on the new Wishard
Check out this early rendering of a proposed replacement for Wishard Hospital. The $754-million project calls for 11 stories and about 1.2 million square feet of space. It would be built just west of the current hospital, next to the…
Cafe Nora, Ruth’s Cafe close
Owner Jim Nethercott said he had to shut down Saturday because of falling traffic and other financial troubles.
His…
Privatize parking meters?
City officials are considering several proposals to modernize and even privatize the city’s roughly 4,000
parking meters to squeeze out more revenue.
Wine bar planned for Conrad
Plans are in the works for a wine bar called Tastings that would take the first-floor corner space at the Conrad Indianapolis and…
Madison Avenue retail planned
A local developer is planning a retail strip center for a run-down parcel along Madison Avenue south of downtown. The plans by Keystone Construction Corp. call for…
Preview of $30M project
Check out these fresh renderings of a $30-million student housing project planned for Indiana Avenue near
IUPUI. The plans by Trinitas Ventures of West Lafayette call for 250 apartment units at 1201 Indiana Ave,
between Montcalm and Milburn streets south…