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• North Split update: Timeline for two street reopenings
  The 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 completion
  The 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 work
  Utility 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-Hendricks
  The 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 IHPC
  ARTWORK 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 Square
  Onyx+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 hand
  Beginning 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 week
  New 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-May
  Monon 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 Street
  Note: 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 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: Phoenix plans to create two outdoor performance spaces
  The 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...]
• 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: Rebuilt Delaware Street to host two IndyGo ‘Super Stops’
  A project to place two IndyGo “Super Stops” along North Delaware Street – immediately north of the southern end of Mass Ave, and immediately north of North Street – will begin construction early next year, nearly four years after first being [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: Market Street closure to begin between City Market and City-County Building
  The Indianapolis Department of Public Works (Indy DPW) expects to close East Market Street between Delaware Street and Alabama Street on Tuesday, Sept. 8, to begin work on $7.4 million street and pedestrian infrastructure [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Crowdfunding campaign launched for ‘The Dog Park at Immanuel’
  Downtown residents may soon have a place to take canine friends thanks to the recently launched crowdfunding campaign to create a dog park next to Immanuel United Church of Christ in the Bates-Hendricks neighborhood. If the campaign reaches its [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Bottleworks shares images of new hotel’s restored lobby
  IMAGE ABOVE: Updated renderings showcase the hotel’s reimagined lobby with terrazzo floors, plaster detailing, colorful ceramic tile and brass art deco patterned doors, all restored to their historic state. The highly anticipated Bottleworks [Read More...]
• THIS JUST IN: Virtual open houses planned on North Split project
  Downtown stakeholders and other interested citizens will have two opportunities to see a formal presentation by the North Split Project Team. The two sessions of the North Split Public Open House will feature several project updates, Aesthetic [Read More...]