Ironworks project gets key city approval
The city's Metropolitan Development Commission approved a Wisconsin developer's plan for a $30 million apartment and retail project to be built on the site of the former Woodfield Centre retail strip.
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Ambrose snags large industrial deal
Ambrose Property Group will break ground next month on its first industrial project, a 545,010-square-foot national distribution center for Gordmans Inc.
LEADING QUESTIONS: Mainstreet CEO masters efficiency
What are Zeke Turner's top five strategies for keeping his work week under 40 hours? Do you really need work e-mail on your smart phone? What's it like to take a company public? The real estate exec has answers.
Marsh closing stores in Marion, Columbus
The locally based grocery chain said it is shutting down the stores rather than renew leases. Following the closings, Marsh will have 91 stores in Indiana and Ohio.
Cash-for-gold retail bill passes Indiana House
The Indiana House on Thursday approved a bill regulating cash-for-gold stores, which have proliferated since gold prices shot up in 2008.
A2SO4 architectural firm reopens after temporary closure
The firm in historic Union Station had been ordered to shut down by the state because it owed more than $43,000 in delinquent taxes, but the state appears to have been mistaken in its decision.
Another delay on Di Rimini: Time for a demolition order?
The owner of the unfinished 31-unit apartment building at 733 N. Capitol Ave. now hopes to sell the property instead of investing more than $1.5 million to bring it into code compliance.
HEMPSTEAD: Indianapolis approaching important tipping point
Confluence of trends, developments offer special opportunity.
Three years after opening, Indiana Design Center fills
Tenants include interior designers, artists, kitchen cabinet firms.
Architects, planners brainstorm Indianapolis transit terminal design
Here’s what we don’t know: what it will look like, what amenities users can expect, and how it will link to rapid-transit lines still in the planning stages. At the moment, the 1.9-acre parcel is a city-owned parking lot, situated on the south side of Washington Street between Delaware and Alabama streets. But architecture, urban planning and mass transit fans imagine it as an empty canvas, with the potential to showcase a signature structure that triggers more development nearby.
Bill to toughen state ‘bath salts’ laws advances
The bill would require the state to suspend the business license for a year of any retailer caught selling synthetic drugs or lookalikes.
Office Depot agrees to buy OfficeMax for about $1.2B
The move would combine the No. 2 and No. 3 office supply retailers and lead to consolidation in an industry that analysts say is over-stored. Office Depot has eight stores in the Indianapolis area and OfficeMax has five.
Legislature backs delay for Indiana farmland tax hike
New calculations for property taxes on Indiana farmland would be delayed for a year under a proposal approved by the state Legislature.
REI, Chicago partner picked to build office building at IUPUI
The five-story, $22.9 million building would be constructed on university-owned land at the northeast corner of New York Street and University Boulevard.
Decision could come soon on Don Marsh severance claim
The issue will be decided by Judge Sarah Evans Barker, who presided over a two-week civil trial that saw a federal jury return a $2.2 million judgment against the former CEO of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. late Friday night.
Jury returns $2.2M judgment against Don Marsh
A federal jury returned a $2.2 million judgment against iconic Marsh Supermarkets CEO Don Marsh late Friday, finding that he tapped corporate coffers for personal expenses.
Drywall contractor charged with underpaying employees
An Indianapolis drywall contractor faces criminal charges that he underpaid his employees working on a government housing project, and then falsified documents to cover it up, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday.
Indy-area home sales off to strong start in 2013
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area spiked 17.2 percent in January compared to the same month a year earlier, suggesting last year's housing recovery continues to gain momentum.
Jury to begin deliberating in Don Marsh trial
The panel of nine will begin closed-door discussions Friday afternoon following closing arguments from attorneys representing Marsh Supermarkets Inc. and the former CEO of the company accused of spending $3.3 million of company funds on personal expenses.
Bankruptcy stops condos’ auction
An Indianapolis developer’s last-minute bankruptcy filing halted the auction of a struggling downtown condominium project.