The 273-room hotel’s owner is gearing up for the renovation as planning continues for an expansion of the Indiana Convention Center and construction of a connected 800-room Signia by Hilton Hotel a block to the north.
Woof Gang, founded in 2007, is a specialty retailer of pet food, supplies and professional grooming services. The chain has about 200 locations open or under development in the United States.
The company has already hired more than 8,000 employees in the Arlington, Virginia, area and will welcome them to Met Park campus, the first phase of development, when it opens this June.
Siblings Stephanie White-Longworth and Keith White opened the first Leo’s Market and Eatery in 2019 at 2212 W. Main St. in Greenfield using proceeds from an earlier venture.
The upscale hotel project across from Indianapolis Motor Speedway has gone through numerous delays since being announced in 2015. A new developer took over in late 2021 but has yet to restart construction.
A five-year legal battle among members of the Pittman family delayed the project. Those disputes were settled two years ago.
After exiting its Mass Ave venue during the pandemic, the company that presents ComedySportz improv shows is set to open a new theater in the former home of a Books & Brews.
Filings for single-family building permits in central Indiana have fallen on a year-over-year basis for the past 13 months and in 16 of the past 18 months.
The Department of Metropolitan Development on Thursday issued a request for expressed interest, or RFEI, which will allow the officials to gauge the appetite developers have to devise an overall plan for the Indiana Avenue neighborhood.
Meanwhile, Hoosiers have their first new law for the year—and it’s a retroactive business tax deduction in time for tax season.
The first Micro Center store in Indiana is expected to open in July and employ 50 to 75 staff members. The Ohio-based retailer of computers, computer parts and other electronics presently operates 25 stores in 16 other states.
Despite the decline in sales, median prices for homes sold in the 16-county area rose 11% in January on a year-over-year basis, according to the latest monthly data from the MIBOR Realtor Association.
For years, Ersal Ozdemir has pursued a Major League Soccer expansion franchise, but each time the league has rejected his overtures, in part because the team has lacked its own venue,
The keys to the restaurant’s success, said owner Terry Anthony, have been the generous terms from his landlord, the quicker-than-expected return of convention and event business, and his willingness to be flexible as downtown recovers.
“My business model completely changed,” said Downtown Comics owner Doug Stephenson of the Market Street store. “If you look at my sales chart, everything moved from Wednesday, which is traditionally the biggest day for comic stores … to the weekends.”
Loree Everette’s biggest concern about downtown has nothing to do with the typical complaints involving homelessness, safety or cleanliness. It’s that living downtown has become so popular it’s unaffordable for too many people.
Many parts of downtown are thriving—particularly neighborhoods, where rents are rising, people have to stand in line for a lunch table, and investments are flowing. Other parts—especially downtown’s central core, where many workers might come to the office only once or twice a week—are limping along, pockmarked by vacant storefronts, panhandlers and crumbling sidewalks.
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.
Cummins, Rolls-Royce, Eli Lilly and Co., AES and Elevance Health are among the city’s largest downtown employers and all say most of their workers have the option of working at home at least part of the time.
The developer plans to put a 20,000-seat soccer stadium for the Indy Eleven right along the White River, which is on the western edge of the former Diamond Chain manufacturing site.
