For almost 20 years, the Gene B. Glick Co. has been a sleeping giant. The state’s largest owner and manager of apartments spent much of the 1960s through the 1980s building a massive portfolio of apartment communities, mostly for low-income residents. The empire had grown to 100 properties and 18,000 total units across 10 states […]
A 22-year-old homeless man is being held tonight after prosecutors said he set a fire that gutted a $28 million six-story apartment complex under construction in downtown Indianapolis earlier this month. Brandon L. Burns faces preliminary felony charges of arson and intimidation in the March 12 blaze, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said at a […]
Sluggish condo sales have led developer Kosene & Kosene Residential to consider turning its latest downtown project, The
Maxwell,
into apartments.
A fire that destroyed a six-story apartment complex under construction along the downtown Indianapolis canal last week was ruled an arson today. The fire gutted the $28 million Cosmopolitan on the Canal project that had been nearing completion and spread onto the roof of the adjacent headquarters of the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, causing […]
The remains of the Cosmopolitan on the Canal project continued to smolder today as a small crew of firefighters worked to put out remaining hot spots. They were using a crane to demolish a portion of the building’s remaining facade…
An overnight fire caused massive damage to a $33 million apartment project on the downtown canal being developed by locally based Flaherty & Collins Properties. The fire was reported around 3 a.m. and continued to burn into the early morning. About 125 firefighters brought the flames under control. The Cosmopolitan on the Canal project was […]
A $33-million apartment and retail project along the canal downtown caught fire early this morning. The Cosmopolitan on the Canal project, by Flaherty & Collins Properties, had been nearing completion on a site bordered by the canal, Senate Avenue, Michigan…
A Brooklyn-based real estate investment firm is spending $55 million to purchase a local apartment portfolio from one of the country’s largest owners of multi-family housing. Hampshire Properties LLC purchased six apartment communities from Denver-based Apartment Investment & Management Co., known as AIMCO. The sale totals more than 2,100 units, including the Westlake and Wind […]
The Indianapolis Housing Agency has received five bids from teams interested in developing new residential or commercial space on land surrounding two prominent public housing towers. The agency had asked for proposals for land adjacent to the 21-story John J. Barton Apartments at 555 Massachusetts Ave. and the 15-story Lugar Tower at 901 Fort Wayne […]
The Indianapolis Housing Agency has received five bids from teams interested in developing new residential or commercial space on land surrounding two prominent public housing towers. The agency had asked for proposals for land adjacent to the 21-story John J. Barton Apartments at 555 Massachusetts Ave. and the 15-story Lugar Tower at 901 Fort Wayne […]
Two concrete public-housing towers near Mass Ave downtown can seem like a world apart from the bustling, pedestrian-friendly urban neighborhoods nearby. The Indianapolis Housing Agency is hoping to change that. The group is asking developers to pitch plans to build new residential or commercial space on land surrounding the 21-story John J. Barton Apartments at […]
BOONE COUNTY Developer pitches apartments in Zionsville technology park A local developer wants to build a 224-unit apartment complex in Zionsville’s Bennett Technology Park, but first must clear zoning hurdles relating to a taxincrement financing district. Locally based Anderson Birkla Investment Partners LLC wants to build the Lofts at Bennett Park on about 12 acres […]
Duke Realty Corp., the developer of the mixed-use Anson in Boone County, has chosen Hansen & Horn Group Inc. to build single-family houses in the project. Locally based Hansen & Horn replaces Los Angeles-based KB Home Inc., which backed out of plans to build in Anson when it exited the Indiana market in July 2007. […]
Flaherty & Collins Properties, an Indianapolis construction, development and management firm, announced this week that it will manage an additional 13 apartment communities for Alliant Real Estate Investments LLC. The new properties include 1,200 units in Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Flaherty & Collins now handles 18 communities and 1,200 units for Alliant, which […]
Locally based Flaherty & Collins Properties has laid off several employees after losing a management contract for properties in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. The move comes after California-based AIG Sun America elected to consolidate its property management operations, said Mark Conover, a Flaherty spokesman. The layoffs affected fewer than 10 people, a small portion of […]
John Sebree is launching Watermark Residential as a partnership with the owners of Carmel-based Thompson Thrift, a development and construction firm best known for its retail strip center projects. Thompson Thrift was eager to diversify its business, and apartments are as attractive as ever: The subprime mortgage meltdown has reduced the volume of new single-family homes, and the condo market also is hurting. Meanwhile, apartment occupancy rates are sky high in many markets, including Indianapolis, and the prospects for rent…
A local developer plans to spend up to $45 million building a “north village of downtown” on several parcels it has assembled
near the Central Library. Buckingham Cos. plans to build apartments, offices, restaurants and retail space-all surrounding
its headquarters in the three-story Stokely-Van Camp building at the southeast corner of Meridian and St. Joseph streets.
Executives at locally based Duke Realty Corp. fielded questions for years about what was taking so long with Anson, a $1.4 billion residential, retail and industrial development along Interstate 65 in Whitestown. Not anymore. A string of blockbuster new tenants including MedcoHealth Solutions Inc. and Amazon.comInc. have fired up interest in the 1,700-acre project, particularly its industrial component known as Allpoints at Anson. Together, the companies plan to invest more than $175 million-Medco is building an automated pharmacy and Amazon…
A local firm has begun renovations on an historic 12-story former bank building at 129 E. Market St. Crown Property Group bought the J.F. Wild & Co. building from…
On this nasty Friday, I’ve got a few updates on previous posts. Hope everyone has a nice weekend. Here goes:
What was Flagstar thinking?
Flagstar Bank has added yet…
