Feast on Indiana Live!
The $200-million Indiana Live! casino opened Friday night in Shelbyville. If the free-money giveaways around town, faux Obama commercials and the buzz around a promised ribbon-cutting appearance…
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Cosmopolitan a total loss?
The remains of the Cosmopolitan on the Canal project continued to smolder today as a small crew of firefighters worked to put out remaining hot spots. They were using a crane to demolish a portion of the building’s remaining facade…
Sad news: Cosmopolitan burns
A $33-million apartment and retail project along the canal downtown caught fire early this morning. The Cosmopolitan on the Canal project, by Flaherty & Collins Properties, had been nearing completion on a site bordered by the canal, Senate Avenue, Michigan…
Restaurant comings and goings
Wrecking crews this week tore down the Best Rentals building at 123 N. New Jersey St. The most recent plans
for the space, revealed to city planners…
Jack in the Box coming to Indy
The West Coast fast-food stalwart Jack in the Box is looking to expand to Indianapolis this year. The San Diego-based burger chain plans…
C.P. Morgan’s demise puts 2,000 home sites on market already overwhelmed with land
The end of C.P. Morgan, the largest
central Indiana builder for a decade, will throw 1,200 home lots and options for 800 more onto an already flooded land market.
Tobias Theater renovation is new model for environmentally sensitive construction
The 600-seat Randall L. and Marianne W. Tobias Theater (nicknamed The Toby) is arguably the greenest facility of its kind
in the nation.
White River trail will weave in stories
NINebark, a landscaping architectural firm, is making six large storyboards so that users of the planned White River Greenway
will learn about the area’s industrial history.
F.C. Tucker forms partnership with home-builder Shoopman
F.C. Tucker Co. has entered into an agreement with Shoopman Home Building Group in which 21 Tucker real estate agents will
staff model homes in seven communities Shoopman is developing.
JW Marriott taking shape
The new 1,000-room JW Marriott convention hotel is rising fast at West and Washington streets in anticipation of a grand opening in March 2010. The $425-million complex also calls for a Courtyard by Marriott, SpringHill Suites and a Fairfield Inn…
Mass Ave building changes hands
An iconic flatiron building on Massachusetts Avenue downtown has a new owner nearly three years after the property first went on the market, IBJ’s Chip Cutter reports…
Private school moving to Lockerbie
The private Todd Academy plans to move into a historic building at the northwest corner of East and New York streets in Lockerbie Square. The building is…
Geist restaurateur buffeted by financial squalls
Henri and Shelley Najem, who own The Bella Vita restaurant in Geist, represent the scores of Indiana restaurant operators
feeling financial pressure, given the severe economic slump.
IMA’s new design store bucks frugality trend
The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Design Center opened last October as a complement to the museum’s 20th century design collection,
which curator R. Craig Miller expects to grow exponentially.
DINING: iPhone app leads us to Siam Square
This month, we threw caution — and dining preferences — to the wind and employed the help of the Urban Spoon iPhone
application
to make our dining choices.
School makes move into historic Lockerbie building
The private Todd Academy plans to move into a historic building at the northwest corner of East and New York streets in Lockerbie
Square.
Schedule shift heats salsa war at two area hot spots
After four years, the Red Room club in Broad Ripple is switching its salsa night from Wednesday to Thursday and local salseros are worried about stepping on some toes.
Airport concessions awarded
Indianapolis International Airport cleaned up at the Airport Revenue News’ 2009 Best Concession Awards Feb. 15 in Orlando,
Fla.
C.P. Morgan aftermath
Tract house builder C.P. Morgan officially bites the dust today. Which raises plenty of questions:
–Has anyone else been more influential in the type of housing stock built in the Indianapolis area in the
past decade than Chuck Morgan?…
Something’s cooking on Capitol
A local hospitality supply firm has refreshed its 106-year-old building at 640 N. Capitol Ave. with a new coat of paint, a power wash and a five-foot-tall…