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• Coming Sunday: Vendors, artists and performers on Mass Ave
  The 600 block of Mass Ave will be closed to vehicles for the July 30 festival. The Mass Ave Cultural Arts District will host at lease 40 vendors at its inaugural Mass Ave Mile Summer Festival, taking place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 30. The [Read More...]
• Purdue University programs coming to East End of Mass Ave
  Key elements of Purdue University in Indianapolis will be housed at High Alpha’s headquarters in the rapidly expanding Bottleworks District on the East End of Mass Ave. Purdue University’s recent announced severance from the IUPUI partnership with [Read More...]
• Bottleworks District honored for ‘Outstanding Restoration’
  Indiana Landmarks, impressed with the revitalization of the historic Coca-Cola Bottling Plant into what is now known as the Bottleworks District, has given the complex project its prestigious Cook Cup for Outstanding Restoration for 2023. The [Read More...]
• Powell to lead Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center as search begins for its first full-time CEO
  The Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre has embarked upon a mission to hire its first chief executive officer by Jan. 1, in the meantime naming an interim CEO. William Powell, a long-time business leader and arts management consultant in Indianapolis [Read More...]
• What IndyFringe is looking for in its next CEO
  IndyFringe is in the market for somehow “to carry out our mission – advancing the performing arts year-round by creating access to a multitude of opportunities for artists, audiences, and our community to thrive.” That person is needed following the [Read More...]
• Two development firms playing musical chairs with headquarters
  Renovation work is currently under way at the former Harrison College building – work which will allow Milhaus LLC to move its headquarters from Fletcher Place by the second quarter of 2023 to accommodate its expanding staffing needs. At the same [Read More...]
• Business updates: Botanical Bar opens, Fountain Room on the way
  The Botanical Bar: Victoria Lyras has opened the shop at 1103 N. College Ave. offering offers a curated selection of high-quality houseplants, along with uniquely designed lifestyle and wellness products made by people of color and women-owned [Read More...]
• Cornerstone seeking women vendors for new Friday ‘happy hour’ market / Lockerbie event center adds a coffeehouse / a new space at the Indiana State Museum
  REPORT ONE: Market for women vendors. Cornerstone Bread Co. has put out the call for women vendors to take part in a new market.  The Faire-Share Market, which will feature only women vendors, will begin Friday, May 20, and continue from 3 to 6 p.m. [Read More...]
• Openings pending for Sidedoor Bagels and Botanical Bar; plus more business news
  When former Amelia’s baker Josh Greeson couldn’t keep up with the demand for the bagels he was producing for delivery, he started looking for a brick-and-mortar location. He settled on a prime spot at the corner of East 10th and Dorman streets in [Read More...]
• Business update: Openings and closings in the Urban Times area
  *Housed for a decade in the Murphy Art Center, PURE EATERY will close its doors by the end of the monty, owners Dave Andrus, Courtney Andrus and Jason Jacobi have announced in a Facebook post. “It is with a heavy heart that we are announcing the [Read More...]
• Modern Italian cuisine now served at new Fall Creek Place eatery
  Main courses with titles such as Della Casa and Orrecchiette dot the menu at Bocca, the newly opened “modern Italian” restaurant in the former Fall Creek Place home of Shoefly Public House. Bocca is the brainchild of Dan Cage, who operates Ambrosia [Read More...]
• Updated: Indy Reads Books to open in Fountain Square on Nov. 5
  Delayed over a year by a certain pandemic, Indy Reads Books will finally open the doors to its new home on Friday, Nov. 5, at 1066 Virginia Ave. in the heart of Fountain Square. The space is no stranger to books, however, having been for many years [Read More...]
• Fletcher Place coffee shop to celebrate 12 years of giving back to community
  Calvin Fletcher’s Coffee Co.and its Charitable Foundation will host the Fletcher Place coffee shop’s 12-year anniversary celebration from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9. This year’s silent auction will benefit ProAct Indy. The day will be an [Read More...]
• 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...]