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Playground and splash park open at O’Bannon Soccer ParkThe story behind the Old Northside’s new playground and splash park – a facility christened Friday, May 19 – began all the way back in 1989 when one if the neighborhood’s urban pioneers wanted a space for area children to play soccer. Rick Patton [Read More...]
Cultural Trail expansion to extend west of White River for first timeA new section of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail – targeted to be complete in 2026 – will for the first time take the walking and biking trail away from Downtown and across the White River. The $21.2 million expansion announced Tuesday will link the [Read More...]
Six Downtown blocks of College Avenue to return to two-way trafficWork is poised to begin on the project to establish two-way traffic on six blocks of College Avenue from Market Street to Massachusetts Avenue. This project will be closely followed by a similar two-way conversion of Michigan and New York streets on [Read More...]
$5 million in upgrades planned for Kennedy-King Memorial SiteA plaza, pavilion and public art are among the improvements coming to the Kennedy-King Memorial Site, city officials announced on Jan. 17 – most appropriately on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The memorial is located in Dr. Martin Luther King [Read More...]
Zoo taking a big step forward in “Species Survival” – and chimpanzees tooThe fact that the Indianapolis Zoo will soon open a new Welcome Center is certainly old news to anyone who has visited during the enduring construction season. But what will accompany the new Welcome Center is only now coming into focus: The Global [Read More...]
Two development firms playing musical chairs with headquartersRenovation 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...]
Support buildings ‘designed to mesh’ with new IU Health complexIndiana University Health has outlined design plans for a multi-use support building and a utility plant to serve its new Downtown Indianapolis hospital under construction at its expanding healthcare campus south of 16th Street. Filed recently with [Read More...]
North Split update: Timeline for two street reopeningsThe East 10th Street interstate underpass is expected to reopen in early September, while Ohio Street should reopening in early October, the Indiana Department of Transportation has announced. Central Avenue, which had been closed since mid-July, [Read More...]
North Split update: INDOT says work on track for end-of-year completionThe North Split interchange is scheduled to reopen by the end of 2022, according to a report from the Indiana Department of Transportation. Landscaping, aesthetics and local street work on the project involving both Interstates 65 and 70 will [Read More...]
Street closure update: Around Downtown hospital project, plus North Split workUtility work to prepare for a new downtown hospital by Indiana University Health is progressing, leading to the next phase of traffic changes near the Methodist Hospital campus.*The intersection of 16th and Capitol Avenue will be closed for utility [Read More...]
$33 million affordable housing project coming to Bates-HendricksThe Bates-Hendricks neighborhood will soon be home to a four-story 151-unit affordable housing development, with a ground-breaking expected for mid-2022, Daniel Jacobs of Chase Development has confirmed. He plans for the project to be completed by [Read More...]
Plans to abandon a residential element at Bottleworks continues to displease IHPCARTWORK ABOVE: The rendering at top shows the original plan for residential use on the upper floors of one of the five buildings being debated by IHPC. The rendering below shows the revised building with office use planned for the upper floors. Art [Read More...]
Townhouses to emerge from parking lot in heart of Fountain SquareOnyx+East plans to break ground this month on a townhome project which will replace a surface parking lot and a drive-thru bank station which abut the plaza in the heart of Fountain Square. The local developer said the $3.5 million project will [Read More...]
New York Street underpass closure is now imminent / Vermont Street work also at handBeginning on or after Wednesday, Aug. 4, New York Street will be closed from East Street to Pine Street as part of the Interstate 65/70 North Split reconstruction project, although motorists wishing to travel northbound can use New York Street to [Read More...]
New York Street closure is delayed until Aug. 2 (at the earliest)Just a day after announcing that the New York Street shutdown at Interstates 65/70 would probably begin Sunday, the Indiana Department of Transportation has postponed that action until “on or after” Monday, Aug. 2. In anticipation of this closure, [Read More...]- New York Street closure and traffic pattern shift to begin this weekNew York Street will be closed at Interstates 65/70 as soon as Sunday, July 25, an action which will also shift traffic patterns on Downtown streets, the Indiana Department of Transportation has announced. New York Street between East and Pine [Read More...]
A trail detour: ‘Monon Loop’ to open in mid-MayMonon Trail users will soon have a new route at the southern end of the trail, closed due to the major reconstruction of the North Split of Interstates 65/70. Named the Monon Loop, the permanent section of trail will be open by mid-May, serving as a [Read More...]
103 apartment units planned on East Market StreetNote: This posting corrects an error in street address in the April edition of Urban Times A major residential development featuring 103 residential units in a six-level building is planned for the 1100 block of East Market Street in Holy Cross. The [Read More...]
THIS JUST IN: The Garage food hall poised to open in Bottleworks DistrictFourteen 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: Phoenix plans to create two outdoor performance spacesThe Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre hasn’t been able to stage a live performance during the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean its brain trust hasn’t been working to reach beyond its walls. As a result of that work, the Downtown theater plans to launch [Read More...]