
Groundbreaking set for Broad Ripple mixed-use project
Known as Versa, the project will include more than 230 apartments, a 245-space parking garage, and 3,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
Known as Versa, the project will include more than 230 apartments, a 245-space parking garage, and 3,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
The first in a series of demolitions began at the 20-acre site near East 42nd Street and Post Road on Friday. Over the next year and a half, the city plans to acquire more than 150 parcels and relocate residents.
Called Allison Pointe, the project is designated for a 10.5-acre undeveloped parcel in a small commercial park along Allison Lake, a manmade body of water between 82nd Street and I-465.
The Plaza at Central Greens project will comprise five buildings, including three apartment structures with 117 units, an amenity center and a retail building.
Two projects—one in the International Marketplace and another on the north side of Indianapolis—have been approved for financing by the City-County Council’s Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee.
The Maddox would include 11 residential buildings on about 33 acres near the intersection of East Whitestown Parkway and Cardinal Lane in Whitestown.
Joining the podcast this week are apartment market specialist George Tikijian, real estate developer Eric Gershman and Deputy Mayor Scarlett Andrews.
The number of people renting in downtown’s 46204 ZIP code doubled to 5,500 from 2011 to 2020, according to a recent study from California-based market researcher RentCafe.
The $18.1 million, 56-unit project is planned for the southeast corner of Central and East 29th streets in Fall Creek.
The building was purchased from former occupant Girls Inc. by an affiliate of Merchants Bank for $3.1 million in May.
The $10 million infusion will help create a 48-unit affordable apartment complex for low-income families and homeless young adults on the near-east side called St. Lucas Lofts.
A five-year legal battle among members of the Pittman family delayed the project. Those disputes were settled two years ago.
Nearly 29,000 residents now live downtown, up from about 15,000 in 2010. It’s a number that has been growing as developers continue to add apartment and condo units in the Mile Square and downtown neighborhoods.
A team of two local developers planning the 273-unit Hall Place apartment project at 1720 N. Illinois St. promises to bring dozens of low-rent apartment units to the neighborhood northeast of the expanded Indiana University Health campus.
The project would occupy a vacant 1.5-acre parcel next to the former LoBill grocery store that is now home to the Marion County Board of Elections headquarters.
The Drake has been a often-discussed property since the museum said in mid-2019 the it planned to raze the 95-year-old building as part of a larger real estate effort to make space for additional exhibits and parking.
New York City-based SomeraRoad Inc. has submitted plans to city officials for Stutz South, a five-story complex with 270 apartments that would occupy most of the block between West Ninth and 10th streets and Capitol Avenue and Roanoke Street.
The five-story, market-rate project has received preliminary approvals from the city’s planning commission to build at 764 Greenwood Springs Drive, just north of the Verge Luxury Flats apartment complex that was completed in 2020.
The purchase comes just three years after the 151-unit complex on the Central Canal was sold for $40.7 million to Chicago-based Promus Holdings LLC.
The redevelopment of the former Broad Ripple Kroger and the Fountain Square White Castle could be the first residential projects to receive tax-increment financing from the city without including affordable housing units.