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Super Bowl bid might spur new downtown hotel

Downtown is short of the four- and five-star hotel rooms preferred by National Football League sponsors and partners for a 2018 Super Bowl host, but local tourism officials are hesitant to add more hotel space just to secure a second Super Bowl.

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Area homebuilding permits jump 21 percent

Builders in the nine-county area filed 373 construction permits in July, a 21-percent increase from the same month last year, according to the Builders Association of Greater Indianapolis.

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National, state foreclosure starts on the rise

The number of homes that received an initial notice of default — the first step in the foreclosure process — increased 6 percent in July compared to the same month last year. Foreclosure starts rose 83 percent in Indiana.

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Developers taking serious look at former GM site

At least six reputable developers, both local and national, have toured the former General Motors plant near downtown Indianapolis since it closed last year, according to an official trying to market the property. Of those, two are taking a serious look.

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Parking-garage connectors receive city approval

The Metropolitan Development Commission’s plat committee has given local developer Flaherty & Collins Properties the go-ahead to include two upper-level pedestrian connectors in its plan to build a five-story parking garage downtown. The garage is part of a larger, $85 million development.

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Simon Property directors sued over CEO’s pay

The board of the largest U.S. shopping-mall owner wrongfully authorized a compensation package for CEO David Simon that included $120 million in special stock awards, a Louisiana pension fund claimed in the lawsuit filed Wednesday.

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City to consider connectors for downtown garage

The developer of a five-story parking garage downtown is seeking city approval to build two upper-level pedestrian connectors to offer easier access to the garage, especially for employees of nearby OneAmerica Financial Partners Inc.

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Star‘s labyrinth of aging buildings complicates sale, reuse

Local real estate pros say finding a reuse for the Indianapolis Star's HQ will be tricky. The newspaper is selling its labyrinth of buildings at 307 N. Pennsylvania St., which have multiple floor levels, narrow hallways and a basement built to house printing presses.

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Revamped Pan Am Plaza on track for October debut

Workers have ripped out the old fountain and crumbling bricks of Pan Am Plaza, making way for a waterproof membrane and new stone pavers in a Kite Realty Group Trust project to stabilize the plaza until it can pull off a redevelopment.

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