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Ambrosia plans downtown location

The owner of the popular Broad Ripple Italian restaurant Ambrosia plans to open a new location downtown on the first floor of the Hampton Inn along Maryland Street. The…

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Privatize parking meters?

City officials are considering several proposals to modernize and even privatize the city's roughly 4,000 parking
meters to squeeze out more revenue.

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Weigh in on the new Wishard

Check out this early rendering of a proposed replacement for Wishard Hospital. The $754-million project calls for 11 stories and about 1.2 million square feet of space. It would be built just west of the current hospital, next to the…

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Lauth’s lawyers raking in big fees in bankruptcy reorganization

Developer Lauth Group Inc. is sparing no expense on attorneys in the Chapter 11 reorganization of key subsidiaries. The company has hired two of the nation’s most prominent bankruptcy and restructuring specialists to handle the cases, and the bill for the first month easily will exceed $1 million.

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Smith & Hawken going out of business

Upscale garden retailer Smith & Hawken will close all of its stores by the end of the year, including its Indianapolis
location on River Crossing Boulevard near the Fashion Mall.

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The housing bust has come to this

For a peek into just how hard the housing bust has hit the Indianapolis area, look no further than a new
study by the Indiana Business Research Center, an arm of Indiana Universityâ??s Kelley School of Business.

The region,…

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Privatize parking meters?

City officials are considering several proposals to modernize and even privatize the city’s roughly 4,000
parking meters to squeeze out more revenue.

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Wine bar planned for Conrad

Plans are in the works for a wine bar called Tastings that would take the first-floor corner space at the Conrad Indianapolis and…

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New restaurants planning to open this month

New restaurants include Iozzo’s Garden of Italy, slated to open July 17 at 946 S. Meridian St.,
in the former home of Leland’s and Cafe@Ray. The owner’s grandfather in the 1940s owned an
800-seat restaurant of the same name where the Hyatt Regency now stands.

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Greater Indianapolis YMCA has $30M in projects planned

It takes a map of the entire metro area to show all the projects the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis has on its drawing board.
The $30 million plan calls for building two brand-new facilities, one in Avon and one in Pike Township; expanding
the Fishers YMCA; and building a new outdoor pool in Lawrence.

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Conrad Indianapolis adding wine bar, sidewalk dining

Plans are in the works for a wine bar called Tastings that would take the first-floor corner space at the Conrad Indianapolis.
The $1 million project would add an entrance to the luxury hotel at the northeast corner of Washington
and Illinois streets and include a total of 80 outdoor seats along both streets, in the shadow of the
Artsgarden.

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Metro-area home sales dip in June

Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area dipped 1.4 percent in June compared to the same month a year
ago, according to a report released today by F.C. Tucker Co.

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HHGregg accelerates store-opening plans

HHGregg Inc. said this morning that the bankruptcy of competitor Circuit City should enable the company to open more stores
within the next few years than previously expected.

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