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Developer Kite to remake key corner in Carmel

Kite Realty Group Trust is planning a Rivers Edge-like overhaul of two shopping centers it owns at 116th Street and Rangeline Road in Carmel. The Indianapolis-based real estate firm already has landed new tenants, including a natural and organic grocery store and a handful of restaurants.

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First stage of $85M downtown project up for approval

The city is set to hear a request on Thursday by a local developer to build a five-story parking garage at the corner of New York and Illinois streets downtown. The garage is part of a development that would be anchored by a Marsh store.

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Retail lineup taking shape for CityWay project

CityWay has landed a fine dining restaurant, a mixology bar, a Qdoba and a frozen yogurt shop as developer Buckingham Cos. turns its attention to the retail portion of the $155 million mixed-use project.

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Binford-area neighborhood alliance upping ambitions

The two main retail centers in a northeast-side development area will be at 100-percent occupancy when Uncle Bill’s Pet Express opens in a small space at Binford Boulevard and 71st Street. Binford Area Growth and Revitalization, a super-neighborhood association better known as BRAG, began striving for this milestone in 2005.

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Massive Anson project showing residential, retail progress

Duke Realty Corp. has retrenched at its massive Anson development in Whitestown—focusing on the most promising sections, rearranging some of its site plans, and letting land-purchase contracts expire on about 300 acres where development prospects are likely several years away.

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Much smaller project would fill former Venu site

A parcel of overgrown bank-owned property with a leaky roof at the southwest corner of East 86th Street and Keystone Avenue may finally be poised for redevelopment: A Wisconsin firm has the 6.4 acres under contract and is putting together plans for a retail strip, a couple of restaurants and possibly a hotel.

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Ozdemir emerges as powerhouse in Indianapolis real estate

Keystone Group, Turkish immigrant Ersal Ozdemir’s 10-year-old development firm, is orchestrating some of central Indiana’s most ambitious projects, including a $15M Broad Ripple parking garage and the $60M million mixed-use Sophia Square in Carmel.

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Deal rekindles $45M downtown project

Former partners in Kosene & Kosene Development have settled a legal dispute that jeopardized redevelopment of the vacant former Bank One Operations Center downtown. Milhaus Development has until May 1 to begin construction.

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Mass Ave restaurant plans clear first hurdle

The city’s Historic Preservation Commission has approved rezoning and variance requests for two buildings sought by the owners of Broad Ripple’s Brugge Brasserie just south of the intersection of Massachusetts and Park avenues.

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Marsh to anchor massive new downtown development

A local developer plans to build a Marsh grocery store and hundreds of apartments in an $85 million project that would replace a block and a half of surface parking lots in the northwest quadrant of downtown.

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Sears closings shouldn’t be big problem for Simon

Simon Property Group has more shopping malls with Sears as a tenant than any other landlord, but any closings are likely have a negligible effect on the Indianapolis-based real estate company's overall earnings, an analyst says.

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Proposed Broad Ripple parking garage gets zoning OK

The controversial project is a $15 million, three-story garage that the city of Indianapolis will subsidize with $6.3 million in parking meter revenue. The project also features a retail component, which neighbors say will lead to increased traffic.

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