I’ve got news on The Shoppes at Providence at Old Meridian, a new mixed-use project in Carmel. But first, a question: What’s the deal with the name? And second: What suggestions do you have for even more pretentious ones? How…
The decision by Cheesecake Factory to open its second Indianapolis restaurant on the south side seems to validate the consensus among brokers that the area has been underserved by restaurants. The California-based…
LAS VEGAS-Redevelopment plans at Greenwood Park and Castleton Square malls call for popular new restaurants and a sought-after Swedish clothing retailer. The additions-which would add the area’s second locations for The Cheesecake Factory and fashion retailer H&M, along with new-to-the-market restaurants Stir Crazy and BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery-are named in materials Simon Property Group Inc. shared with retailers at the International Council of Shopping Centers annual convention in Las Vegas. The highest-profile new tenant at Greenwood Park Mall would be…
It can be intimidating to be tapped by a legend and charged with growing one of central Indiana’s best-known companies. But
David Barrett, three weeks into his role as executive vice president of Gene B. Glick Co. and less than half the age of its
still-working founder, says he isn’t the least bit nervous.
A local firm plans to redevelop a quiet corner near the Fashion Mall into a mixed-use behemoth with a full-service hotel,
5,000-seat theater, hundreds of condos, and more than a million square feet of office and retail space.
A local developer is planning an ambitious project called Woodfield Crossing that would add 1.8 million square feet of development to the southwest corner of 86th Street and Keystone Avenue. The project,…
A local businessman has plans for two new independent restaurants downtown near the corner of Ohio and East streets. One of them, Cabo’s Mexican Grill, is slated to open next week at 132 East St., across from Fifth Third Bank….
The Indiana Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Tax Court have signed a letter of intent to move their offices to space formerly occupied by Eli Lilly & Co. at 30 S. Meridian. They’re leaving National City Center. The courts…
Dick Turner, the man who owns the name and recipes to the classic Indy restaurants from the 1930s to 1970s, is hoping to open an updated version on the south side. Check out the story here. At its…
Several major retailers are poised to open in the new Hamilton Town Center, the 900,000-square-foot shopping center under construction at Interstate 69 and the new 146th Street. Simon Property Group says in documents promoting the project that it will include…
Word of Indy’s Super Bowl defeat spread quickly among Hoosiers attending the International Council of Shopping Centers annual event in Las Vegas. Employees at booths for several real estate companies, including Simon, checked news Web sites all morning…
A site plan from Kite Realty Group shows how a new Target store will fit within Glendale Town Center and also reveals some of the shopping center’s new tenants. A…
People on the northwest side could get another fitness option to go with a brand new Gold’s Gym that just opened near 86th Street and Michigan Road. A development fact sheet from…
Simon Property Group obviously has sway in Indianapolis, having built its headquarters on a public plaza. But the company’s clout goes far beyond the Hoosier state. That is abundantly clear at the…
Locally based Mann Properties is pitching retailers in Las Vegas this week on a couple of mixed-use developments slated for the north side: A project with 132 townhomes and a retail strip called Creekside Shoppes would be built along 86th…
Because of the three-hour time difference between Indianapolis and Las Vegas, I won’t have much to say until this afternoon. I promise it’s the time difference and not that party last night at The Palms. I was working, promise. Asked…
I left Indianapolis for New York City. Flying home for holidays, I never thought I could live here again. A nice place to grow up, Indianapolis gave me those wholesome Midwestern manners, recalled whenever a New Yorker asked, “You’re not from here, are you? You’re just too nice.” Indianapolis also gave me a successful career start, circa 1982. My partners and I later sold an OfficePlus location to a group in Manhattan in 1997. They invited me to move and…
When property is scarce, mitigation becomes viable The plan to close Citizens Gas & Coke Utility’s coke manufacturing plant this year has already brought a few inquires about its reuse potential. But perhaps the biggest impact of the foundry fuel-maker’s demise will be stoking discussions over whether other environmentally scarred properties are ripe for redevelopment. Until recent years, many developers regarded any property with even a tinge of environmental contamination as if a parcel in Chernobyl. The coke plant “illustrates…
Dick Turner is looking for an entrepreneur who shares his taste for nostalgia and Big Chief cheeseburgers. For 20 years, he has dreamed of opening an updated version of the classic TeePee restaurants that served as hangouts for generations from the 1930s to 1970s. At its peak, the chain had three Indianapolis locations, each with dining rooms and curb service, on Madison Avenue and Fall Creek Boulevard and in Nora. Turner can show you the frayed legal documents that outline…
