Westfield selects Jonathan Byrd’s to operate Grand Park hotel
According to plans, the 180-room hotel will be on 5.26 acres of city-owned property immediately to the west of the future indoor soccer facility on 191st Street.
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$60M mixed-use project planned for Rangeline
The ex-Party Time Rental warehouse has been an eyesore for years, but Carmel officials finally seem ready to OK a plan to transform the 6.5-acre site.
Indiana Landmarks finds buyer for Glossbrenner Mansion
A local holding company plans to spend $400,000 to refurbish the historic home on North Meridian Street for office space.
City billboard suit spooks Montage on Mass developers
A federal suit filed by a local billboard firm claiming a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision makes the city’s sign ordinance unconstitutional has pushed discussion of another project’s electronic-mesh art display to next year.
Rising occupancies spur downtown-hotel building boom
Hotel developers emboldened by downtown’s escalating occupancy rate are poised to bring about 800 more rooms to the market.
Noblesville approves incentives for $35M hotel development
A seven- to eight-story hotel and 20,000-square-foot conference center are part of the proposed mixed-use development at exit 210 just off of Interstate 69 in Noblesville.
City block in Fountain Square on the market
The seven parcels on Prospect Street, which are available for a total of $1.5 million, could attract the area's next big apartment development.
Noblesville grain elevator project hits roadblock
The Hamilton County Council declined to vote Wednesday night on a resolution to support funding for Hamilton County Area Neighborhood Development’s $12 million mixed-use proposal for the 2-acre site.
Herron targets historic armory on White River for new high school
Herron High School hopes to raise enough money to turn an abandoned armory in Indianapolis into a new high school, according to Indiana Landmarks, which is trying to save the property.
After final service, Cumberland church awaits likely demolition
The congregation of St. John United Church of Christ in Cumberland has held its last service at the historic structure and is moving to temporary space. After a battle with town officials over the fate of the church building, leaders say they likely will demolish it.
Farm family near Grand Park adapted to encroaching development
Craig Wood has spent most of his 60 years on 191st Street in Westfield, living and working on his family farm. For most of that time, the adjacent land has been other houses and farm fields, but that all changed on Nov. 18, 2011, when construction on Grand Park Sports Campus began.
IPS property sale rekindles talk of downtown Target
Indianapolis Public Schools' plan to sell the 11-acre former Coca-Cola bottling plant site at Massachusetts and College avenues has revived talk that Target would finally open a downtown store.
Broad Ripple apartment project progressing under new developer
J.C. Hart Co. has bought land at the northwest corner of East 66th and Ferguson streets from three local real estate professionals. It plans to build the $17 million Park 66 Flats project on the site.
$2M revival planned for near-north apartment building
Two local not-for-profits have partnered to buy a dilapidated apartment building along the Meridian Street corridor south of 38th Street that was vacated last November due to health and safety concerns.
VA buys land in Crown Hill Cemetery for columbarium
The Department of Veterans Affairs has purchased nearly 15 acres in the cemetery to establish the columbarium for the cremated remains of veterans, spouses and family members.
Airport to auction 320 acres of land for development
The land, which the airport authority said it no longer needs for aviation uses, will be sold in tracts to enable the largest possible number of potential buyers to bid.
Another town votes against joining Mounds Lake commission
The Yorktown Town Council voted 6-1 Monday against joining the commission for the propised $450 million Mounds Lake reservoir, a week after a similar rejection by the Daleville Town Council.
Historic 500 racing garage to be renovated
Indiana Landmarks plans to raise the funds to refurbish the fabled but dilapidated building north of West 16th Street that served as the Boyle Racing garage from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Zoo land deal for more parking sets table for expansion
The Indianapolis Zoo’s landlocked grounds prevent it from expanding. But leaders think they have found a solution—by joining the ownership group that wants to build an outdoor concert venue on the former General Motors stamping plant site across West Washington Street.
Custom homes come to Westfield’s Grand Junction district
A pair of childhood friends are trying to give homeowners another option for downtown living.