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• Major grant will support, boost Downtown Indy’s Street Ambassador program
  The Lilly Endowment has awarded Downtown Indy, Inc., over $1.8 million to continue and expand its Street Ambassador program, which was launched in 2019 to enlist veterans threatened with homelessness into jobs cleaning sidewalks and public spaces in [Read More...]
• Tinker Street to fire up the kitchen in coming weeks / more business news
  One of the city’s most celebrated restaurants – Tinker Street – will open its doors to customers before the end of April, owner Tom Main has confirmed. Yet to be determined are operating hours and how many customers Tinker Street can seat as the [Read More...]
• ‘Community Over Competition’ videos encourage support for all Downtown businesses
  Downtown Indy, Inc. partnered with Wrigley Media Group to produce new videos featuring local restaurant leaders reminding locals how much they are needed during this ongoing pandemic. Restaurateurs are stating that “that they’ll be here [Read More...]
• BONUS COVERAGE: 16 Tech’s artisan marketplace to offer new dining options and community-focused concepts
  Fans of George Turkette’s Fountain Square eatery and meatery may want to look forward to the March opening of Amp, a new artisan marketplace to be located in the 16 Tech Innovation District. The same goes for devotees of Circle City Sweets, the [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: The Garage food hall poised to open in Bottleworks District
  Fourteen vendors are set to open Tuesday in The Garage food hall, a key component of the Bottleworks District development. Fourteen vendors will entertain customers Tuesday when the second major component of the Bottleworks District – a food hall [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Clothier opens in Bottleworks, with more enterprises to come soon / pizzeria coming to Holy Cross
  The first retail component of the new Bottleworks District has opened, with a storefront facing the newly recreated Carrollton Avenue immediately north of the Bottleworks Hotel. Good Neighbor is a clothing store which offers a variety of brands [Read More...]
• A review of what’s ahead at the Bottleworks District with conceptual art
  Wednesday’s opening of the Bottleworks Hotel and next month’s opening of The Garage Food Hall have rightfully garnered much publicity, including as the cover story of the December 2020/January 2021 edition of Urban Times. But there is much more of [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Openings set for Bottleworks Hotel and food hall / more business updates
  The Bottleworks Hotel will open its doors for lodgers on Tuesday, Dec. 15, while The Garage food hall will open on Tuesday, Jan. 5. The boutique hotel features 139 rooms on the top two floors of the historic Coca-Cola bottling works administration [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Changes coming to Mass Ave’s Davlan Park
  Riley Area Development Corp. is planning to expand the patio space in Davlan Park for both Bru Burger and Starbucks, add a new curved seating bench opposite the existing serpentine wall, and place a “busker” station for street entertainers. That [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Support local businesses on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 28.
  Many members of the Mass Ave Merchants Association will be taking part in the 11th annual Small Business Saturday, which will take place on Saturday, Nov. 28, and continue through the holiday season. There will be “swag bag” rewards for some of the [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Shoefly Public House is latest casualty of pandemic
  When Craig and Kait Mariutto opened Shoefly Public House in the fall of 2013, the local watering hole became an instant favorite as, in Craig’s words, something the neighborhood was lacking – “a place for good simple pub food in a relaxed setting.” [Read More...]
• Rabble reborn: New owners plan to open coffeehouse as soon as tomorrow
  Near Eastside residents Mitchell and Jessica Tellstrom were regular customers of Rabble Coffeehouse until it closed this summer amid the COVID-19 shutdown. But when the call went out for anyone else interested in opening the Near Eastside shop, the [Read More...]
• Sign of season: Winter Market
  The Winter Market will once again by in the Circle City Industrial Complex. By Isabel Parham The Indy Winter Farmers Market, hosted by local nonprofit Growing Places Indy, returns for its 14th season starting Saturday, Nov. 7. The market runs every [Read More...]
• ‘Speakeasy’ opens doors on Mass Ave
  The Exchange Whiskey Bar opened Oct. 7 The historic Hammond Block building – a flatiron structure at the southern end of Mass Ave – has a lively new tenant described as a “speakeasy-style bar.” The Exchange Whiskey Bar opened its doors at 301 Mass [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Live entertainment venue opens on Mass Ave
  A new entertainment venue – Almost Famous – has emerged on Mass Ave, the brainchild of Tini owner Curtis McGaha. The venture is located in the space recently vacated by long-time tenant ComedySportz at 721 Mass Ave. A drag queen show launched the [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Downtown Indy, Inc., launches a new city-wide initiative to encourage residents to patronize Downtown businesses
  The program is described in the video which can be found at Back Down Town. The health of Downtown has been sorely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which finds 85% of Downtown employees working from home, and therefore not Downtown – and also be [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: An insider’s look at the Bottleworks District
  The Bottleworks District has released a new video of the renovations and historical components of the Mass Ave development, along with some high-quality drone footage. Construction continues on the $300 million urban mixed-use development in [Read More...]
• Making a dentist office safe amid virus
  When the quarantine mandates allowed for dentists to reopen on April 27, Dr. Tracey Tabor Williams wasn’t so ready to launch. Concerned for the health and well-being of her staff and patients, she was in the middle of researching solutions to add [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Coffee and grocery open in Fletcher Place; JP Parker Flowers closes; and more
  A historic and long-vacant gas station which sits at the corner of College and Fletcher avenues has come back to life as Amberson Coffee and Grocer. The enterprise is the brainchild of Hugo Cano, a California native who now resides in the Lockerbie [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: ‘Two Chicks’ to open home décor store with bistro on Saturday
  The mother-daughter team of Karen E Laine and Mina Starsiak Hawk bought the Bates-Hendricks building at 1531 S. East St. in 2017 to warehouse the material they used in their business, Two Chicks and a Hammer, and their HGTV show, Good Bones. But [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Mass Ave businesses push back over street closure
  The city’s plan to close Mass Ave to vehicular traffic as a way to both spur business and thwart further spread of the coronavirus has met with significant opposition from at least 22 Mass Ave businesses. The city had announced on Tuesday its plan [Read More...]
• COVID-19 UPDATE: Three new developments amid the pandamic
  Report 1: City makes transition to electronic public meetings and hearingsReport 2: Indy Pride Festival postponed, with new date yet to comeReport 3: Kroger partners with city and IPS to offer free virus testing 1: City makes transition to [Read More...]
• COVID-19 UPDATE: Four more items to help during the shutdown
  Report 1: A coronavirus story from Garfield Park tavern ownerReport 2: Boner Centers offers link to help Near Eastsiders cope with pandemicReport 3. Kroger to accept SNAP benefits for pickupReport 4: Library and YMCA team up to help parents with [Read More...]
• Kan-Kan: More than independent films
  By BILL BROOKS Urban Times editor & publisher Filmmaking mecca can transform neighborhood A group of neighbors go to a thought-provoking movie; or perhaps just an entertaining one. Outside, the friends end up standing outside the restroom, [Read More...]
• This just in: Bottleworks food hall list just keeps growing
  The owners of two popular Downtown coffee shops and an Irvington tiki bar continue to expand their options – this time in the soon-to-open food hall in the Bottleworks District. The new venture will be called Certain Feelings Coffee Co., brought [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: The Best Chocolate in Town has closed
  Twenty-one years after founding The Best Chocolate in Town as a wholesale operation in Edinburgh and 13 years after opening a retail store, Elizabeth Garber is calling it quits on her chocolate career. The final day of business for her shop on the [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Fountain Square Library nears closure – while Indy Reads Books poised to fill the void
  The branch library occupies a strategic location on Fountain Square’s main square, just across Prospect Street from the landmark Fountain Square Theater Building. Tuesday night’s vote by an Indianapolis Public Library committee has moved the Library [Read More...]
• This just in: Downtown pizzeria under new ownership
  This is an amended version of a report posted earlier. George Stergiopoulos grew up in New York eating thin-crust pizza by the slice, so Giorgio’s Pizza became his go-to pizzeria when it opened in 1990 just off Monument Circle. That’s how his [Read More...]
• Calvin Fletcher’s tips now fund a true Foundation
  Since the coffee house opened as a not-for-profit in 2009, all tips have gone to other not-for-profit organizations, a process being more formalized by the Foundation. Calvin Fletcher’s Coffee Co. became an instant Fletcher Place landmark when it [Read More...]
• This just in: Downtown chef enters world of holistic health care
  Many fans of the Moroccan cuisine served at Saffron Café are aware of Anass Sentissi’s skills as a chef who lets the concepts of holistic health drive his recipes. What they might not know is that Sentissi has taken that passion a step further by [Read More...]