Developers need Greenwood’s OK for disputed land
Now that the Indiana Supreme Court has settled the lengthy Greenwood-Bargersville annexation battle, developer Mike Duke is ready to build on a 60-acre tract in the heart of the disputed territory.
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Deal to redevelop Bank One garage full of twists, turns
The city of Indianapolis is finally poised to close, after three years of twists, a complex redevelopment deal on the 1,600-space former Bank One parking garage.
Indianapolis halts work on blighted historic building
The owner of the 1880 building located at 42 E. Washington St. was cited for doing unapproved work to the facade.
Indianapolis airport plan plays up money-making logistics
Growing cargo and logistics business overshadows such titillating concepts as solar farm, recreation campus.
Broad Ripple raising money to preserve historic buildings
A movement to protect historic buildings in Broad Ripple could target as many as 60 properties.
Airport could land $63M annually from land redevelopment
A consultant’s long-term land-use plan approved Friday morning by the Indianapolis Airport Authority recommends expected uses such as cargo and logistics, and offbeat uses such as construction of a solar-energy farm.
Castleton Plaza seeks bankruptcy reorganization
Shopping center on East 82nd Street lists nearly $10.4 million in liabilities and about $7.6 million in assets. The Chapter 11 filing follows a request to foreclose on the property from the center’s lender.
Incentives, long-term leases urged for airport development
The Indianapolis Airport Authority board on Friday is set to approve a long-term land-use plan that will help steer future development in and around Indianapolis International Airport and its five smaller fields for decades to come.
Complaints spark IURC to limit telecom’s service territory
E.Com Technologies LLC, which serves the large Centennial subdivision in Westfield, cannot expand its service territory without the state agency’s permission. Charges of anti-competitive behavior led to the decision.
Lilly’s master plan for downtown (real estate)
As Eli Lilly and Co. outsources work and sheds unnecessary properties, it is making moves with surplus real estate that could establish the strongest physical connection between Lilly and downtown since the company was founded at Pearl and Meridian streets 135 years ago.
Whitsett proposes 86-unit downtown apartment project
The $7.2 million project, to be financed with affordable-housing tax credits, involves retrofitting the three-story former Central Restaurant Products building to accommodate one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Glick partners on $30M downtown apartment development
The lead developer on a long-delayed proposal to redevelop the former Bank One Operations Center has landed a powerhouse partner: apartment developer Gene B. Glick Co.
Keystone Towers heading toward demolition, city says
An Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development official says the city has plans to tear down the abandoned 15-story Keystone Towers complex at Allisonville Road and Fall Creek Parkway and seek proposals for redevelopment.
Council to vote on funding for North of South project
The City-County Council will consider Monday evening whether to allow the city to issue $98 million in bonds to finance a portion of the controversial $155 million development.
Bond wariness might make it tough for cities to borrow
Interest rates on municipal bonds have ticked up in the last two months to pre-recession levels as investors have pulled their money from bond funds in droves. That pattern has begun, gradually, to reverse, but the higher rates could add to the cost of issuing debt for pending city projects.
EDITORIAL: North of South project worth the risk
We understand the concern expressed by some on the City-County Council over Indianapolis’ role in financing the $155 million project, but there are compelling reasons to approve it.
Fix-up list is long as Indianapolis prepares for 2012 Super Bowl
Plenty of opportunities await city officials bent on making downtown shine for the massive event.
Brenwick turns over commercial sales, leasing at Village of West Clay
Ambrose Property Group, a commercial leasing and development company headed by former Duke Realty Corp. broker Aasif Bade, took over for Brenwick, which is primarily a residential developer, at the beginning of the year.
Vote on North of South project’s bond financing delayed
The city’s Economic Development Committee, which was set to vote on the downtown project’s $98 million bond financing package on Tuesday, chose to wait until February after making a few changes.
Home building suffers another bad year, locally and nationally
Building permits filed for new homes in the nine-county Indianapolis area rose just 2.6 percent in 2010, to 3,720. That’s just 95 more homes than in 2009—the worst year for local home construction in more than a quarter century.