Memory Bank: Kentucky Avenue stretches to Washington
An amateur photographer, Walter Carpenter, captured the street scene on March 9, 1913, where Kentucky Avenue met the intersection of Illinois and Washington streets.
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Kite Realty seeks TIF funds for 3 mixed-use projects
Indianapolis-based developer Kite Realty Group Trust is asking the cities of Carmel and Indianapolis to ante up incentives for a trio of mixed-use projects in its pipeline.
Ambrose is mum, but experts say it likely ran into financing problems for $1.4B Waterside
Real estate developers and experts suspect the firm couldn’t get access to enough capital to move forward with the massive, 103-acre development. Opinions are mixed on whether the site should remain intact or be split into multiple projects.
Big Woods to open in Noblesville
The new 7,700 square-foot restaurant will open this winter. The restaurant will open at 14741 Hazel Dell Crossing in a space that formerly housed a Giuseppe’s Italian Market. Renovations of the space are already underway.
Bottleworks signs two more retail tenants
Good Neighbor, an upscale apparel store, and Pumkinfish, a gift shop that focuses on products made by Indiana artisans, will be a part of the first phase of the $300 million project.
DoorDash data breach affects 4.9 million users
Food-delivery service DoorDash said Thursday that the personal data of 4.9 million customers, workers and merchants was compromised earlier this year through an unnamed third-party service provider.
Wabash College plans $13 million football stadium
The stadium will have seating for 3,550 fans across the main grandstand, suites and the W Club Lounge.
Sam’s Club launches health care pilot to members
The Walmart chain is teaming up with several health care companies to offer discounts on everyday care its customers might delay or skip because of the cost.
Local real estate developers join Big Red Liquors ownership
TWG Development’s Tony Knoble and Justin Collins are joining Big Red executive Don Rix as new co-owners of the state’s largest package liquor store chain, alongside founder Mark McAlister.
City ‘full speed ahead’ on Oaktree apartments demolition
Indianapolis officials expect to move forward with razing the blighted northeast-side complex, after the owner failed to request a last-ditch hearing by the state’s Supreme Court.
Arby’s parent firm buys Jimmy John’s Sandwiches
The fast-sandwich chain was founded in 1983 in Illinois and now has 2,800 locations in 43 states. There are 22 in Indianapolis proper and more than a dozen more in the surrounding metropolitan area.
Local developer plans to take up Cambria flag with proposed downtown hotel
A 148-room Cambria hotel is planned for South Meridian Street, less than one year after a local developer scrapped plans for a hotel near the same location with the same brand.
Louie’s Wine Dive, Taste Cafe close College Avenue sites while eyeing revivals
The owner of Taste plans to reopen early next year in a new space within a mile of the former restaurant at 52nd Street and College Avenue.
After delay, developer moving ahead with $46M canal apartment project
Louisville-based Investment Property Advisors is planning 279 additional units and more than 28,000 square feet of retail space just south of its 9 on Canal project, to be dubbed 350 West.
After 105 years, Brenner Luggage closes last store
In 1914, Charles Brenner started manufacturing his first products—fiber board suitcases and traveling bags—in a factory on the south side of Indianapolis. A sign now posted inside Brenner Luggage’s last retail location says it’s closed permanently.
Courtney Cole, one half of Hare Chevrolet’s ‘Sisters of Savings,’ dies after cancer battle
Cole and sister Monica Peck took over the business in 2008 from their parents, just as the Great Recession was gathering steam. They more than doubled their sales after the “Sisters of Savings” radio ad campaign began.
Brownsburg’s newly built downtown starting to fill up
Through a series of developer partnerships that included $53 million in private funding, more than $90 million worth of new buildings and infrastructure improvements have been added along or near North Green Street.
Is Westfield growing too fast?
As Westfield’s housing stock and population balloons—following the rapid growth Carmel and Fishers have experienced for more than a decade—some residents are concerned too much development is coming too fast. And they’re pushing back.
Area existing-home sales fall for eighth time in past nine months
On a year-to-date basis, closed sales are down 1.5% in the 16-county central Indiana area, to 23,631.
Memory Bank: Cars on display in Westfield
This Westfield photo was on a postcard mailed Aug. 24, 1911. At the time, the community was already more than 75 years old. It was settled in 1832 by Quakers who left North Carolina to protest slavery and established a stop on the Underground Railroad. They initially called the town—which was laid out with 48 […]