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Indianapolis expects savings from sweeping energy project
The city is guaranteed $7.5 million in savings over 15 years from a $18 million upgrade of city facilities, and the savings are expected to accumulate further.
Longtime CEO of Acorn Group real estate firm dies
Albert M. Donato Jr., 70, founded the Indianapolis commercial real estate and property management firm in 1988 and most recently served as CEO and board chairman.
INSIDE DISH: Nostalgic Shallos does brisk business swiftly
The 31-year-old, south-side institution is approaching a potential turning point as it breaks sales records and continues to hone lightning-quick food prep and table turnover.
Ball State planning 100-room campus hotel
Ball State University plans to build a $25 million hotel in a building that will also have student-housing space, conference rooms and two restaurants.
Pulte snaps up, repositions stalled Avon housing development
Pulte is tossing out the prior builder's playbook, which called for duplexes aimed at buyers 55 and older. Pulte rezoned the land to allow for single-family homes on larger lots. The resulting 123 home sites will accommodate ranch-style homes starting in the low $100,000 price range.
Domes hold mystique for philanthropist Cook
Gayle Cook marvels at grand churches, courthouses and certainly, the awe-inspiring 200-foot-diameter dome above the West Baden Springs Hotel that she and her late husband, Bill, restored and reopened in the summer of 2007.
New rendering: Mozzo work begins along Virginia Avenue
Milhaus Development is scheduled to begin demolition next week on an old BMV branch to make way for the $6 million Mozzo Apartments along Virginia Avenue.
Law change allows entrepreneurs to market homemade food
Many Indiana home-based food businesses owe their existence to a law enacted in 2009 that allows them to sell certain types of foods at farmers’ markets and their own roadside stands with minimal state oversight.
Downtown building owner faults IPL for outages
The owner of Market Square Center is complaining to state utility regulators that Indianapolis Power & Light has failed to provide reliable service to the office building, better known as the Gold Building, at 151 N. Delaware St.
Castleton Square will get new stores catering to youth
Forever 21 is more than tripling its square footage at the north-side mall by taking the former Borders bookstore space.
Milhaus buys 55 acres on Keystone to build 300 apartments
One of the most conspicuous local remnants of the condo crash—an unfinished $150 million South Carolina-themed community near Keystone at the Crossing—could finally be completed, as apartments.
City gives OK for $60M apartment building on canal
Investment Property Advisors agreed to reduce the size of the apartment building from 26 stories to 10 stories and from 485 units to 319 units to help gain support from the city.
Earth Fare grocery replacing Borders at Hamilton Town Center
An upscale supermarket chain focused on natural and organic products is taking the former Borders bookstore space at Hamilton Town Center. The store will be the first in Indiana for the privately held chain.
Real estate exec’s bankruptcy filing lists $13.3M of debt
Philo Lange, former managing partner of NAI Olympia Partners, lists nearly $12 million in unsecured claims, almost half of which is owed to PNC Bank, according to court documents.
Manufacturer plans distribution center in Plainfield
Wisconsin-based Regal Beloit Corp. has hired Browning/Duke Realty to build a 376,000-square-foot distribution center in Plainfield, the company announced Tuesday.
Decision on Broad Ripple garage delayed again
The two-week continuance granted to remonstrators on Tuesday by the Metropolitan Board of Zoning Appeals follows a previous seven-day delay. The board is set to consider a zoning variance for the $15 million project on May 1.
Finish Line to sell Special Olympics merchandise
The agreement to sell the organization’s items online and in stores is part of a multiyear partnership in which Indianapolis-based Finish Line has agreed to lend support to Special Olympics.
Castleton Square remix calls for larger Forever 21, H&M
Several big changes are in the works at the state’s largest shopping mall, including major expansions for fast-growing chains Forever 21 and H&M.
Suburban office market turns in strong first quarter
Net absorption was the highest in five years, chipping away at what has been a chronically high vacancy rate.