MEMORY BANK: Burger Chef opens 450th restaurant
Burger Chef launched in Indianapolis in 1958 and opened its first downtown location in September 1965.
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Brokers say downtown dining scene hopping despite high-profile closures
A host of big-name restaurants has closed downtown over the past year amid financial struggles and disappointing sales.
IHPC members pan design of proposed 22-story addition to Morrison Opera Place
Members of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission on Thursday said they would be hesitant to support the design for the proposed $60 million, addition. One even called it a “brutal proposal.”
Bottleworks adds three more tenants to Garage Food Hall lineup
The Garage Food Hall is part of the much larger, 12-acre, $300 million Bottleworks development at 850 Massachusetts Ave. that will include retail, residential, office and restaurants, as well as a hotel.
Hotel Tango to open tasting room near Zionsville’s village
The craft distiller is partnering on the project with Indianapolis-based Jackson Investment Group, which this summer acquired the 10,300-square-foot building where the tasting room will operate.
Clif Bar completes $10M bakery renovation, expansion project in Indianapolis
The energy bar giant said it added 24,000 square feet to the 185,000-square-foot building at 7575 Georgetown Road on the city’s northwest side. About 430 people work at the bakery.
UPDATE: Transportation contractor plans $11M headquarters on southeast-side
Milestone Contractors LP received approval for incentives from the city of Indianapolis tied to an effort to build a 25,000-square-foot office building and 52,000-square-foot garage in Beech Grove.
New Jersey firm buys massive Amazon facility in Greenwood for $81.5M
Holmdel, New Jersey-based Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. bought the 615,747-square-foot building at 1151 S. Graham Road from local firm Scannell Properties earlier this month.
Longtime downtown Mexican eatery Acapulco Joe’s changes ownership
Acapulco Joe’s, 365 N. Illinois St., has been acquired by Ezequiel Fuentes, who owns or co-owns nine other Mexican restaurants in the region, including one in Zionsville. It will close for a couple of weeks for renovations.
South-side revival: Inside the restoration of the 119-year-old Turnverein
Turning a former German social club and gym into the offices of a medical claims management organization and international travel insurance company was no small order—especially because the building had to remain more-or-less true to its original form to qualify for the federal Historic Tax Credit program.
Memory Bank: Hotel Washington was upscale option
The 17-story building now known as Symphony Centre at 32 E. Washington St. was constructed in 1912 as the upscale Hotel Washington, a project developed by local hotelier J. Edward Krauss and designed by Indianapolis architecture firm R.P. Daggett & Co.
With 17 hotels in downtown pipeline, experts doubt they’ll all make it
If all of the plans move forward, downtown would see an unprecedented deluge of new rooms. But developers and lenders are fretting over whether the market can support them.
Minnesota-based tool retailer set to enter Indianapolis market
Northern Tool + Equipment, a growing tool and equipment retailer with more than 100 stores in 21 states, is entering Indiana with two Indianapolis stores that are set to open Oct. 31.
UPDATE: Marion County reschedules canceled tax sale for early 2020
The sale was scheduled to take place Thursday and Friday but a clerical error forced the Treasurer’s Office to cancel the event. Nearly 1,200 parcels with minimum bids totaling some $6 million were to be auctioned and will now be available at the rescheduled sale in February—unless the owners pay their delinquent taxes.
New restaurant to open in former Corner spot in Broad Ripple
The new owners, who acquired the lease and liquor license at auction, operate two other restaurant and bars in Indianapolis—one downtown and one in Castleton.
GFS plans $160M local distribution facility, hundreds of jobs
Gordon Food Service plans to hire and train more than 200 workers for the distribution center at hourly wages of $20 to $25 an hour before the facility opens in late 2021. Longer term, employment at the facility is expected to be much greater.
Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO says new gun policies cost company quarter-billion dollars
Even while the National Rifle Association, Republican lawmakers and critical customers have blasted CEO Ed Stack, he said the company’s entire firearms category is under “strategic review.”
North-side community development group searching for new CEO
Top executive Leigh Riley Evans plans to leave Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corp. later this fall after helping shepherd a $60 million project.
Two-block office project by Methodist finally moving forward
The 4.5-acre site catty-corner to the downtown hospital complex is earmarked for a 250,000-square-foot office building and seven-level parking structure, to be connected by a skybridge. It also would include a grocery store.
Memory Bank: Bootlegger busted
In this Dec. 9, 1920, photo, three Indianapolis police officers pose with a still and some of the ingredients they confiscated during a raid at a farm a half-mile east of New Bethel (a town in Marion County now called Wanamaker).