Editorial

In another era, these people might have made model train sets, perhaps in the image of real train tracks in a real town. But this isn’t that era. So the members of IndyLUG, a Lego club for adults, dream up other things. Samara Shackelton likes to create elves. Bill Bartley makes submarines. Scott Wright builds … Read more

Building and renting around The Fashion Mall has long been a luxury. Like a Brooks Brothers suit, it was once for an exclusive crowd: high-end retailers. During the last seven years, however, swanky hotels (Ironworks), luxury apartments (Quarry), and ostentatious offices (River North) have bought in – a total of $250 million in investments. So … Read more

Strategic Capital Partners No one can accuse SCP of thinking small. The local investment firm led by former Duke Realty execs bought Precedent Office Park with Philadelphia-based Rubenstein Partners in January for $132.7 million. The enormous property near 96th Street and Keystone Avenue included 19 buildings and a 38-acre lake, which they believe is underutilized. … Read more

Some malls would love to have Circle Centre’s problems. More Dawn of the Dead than designer labels, Lafayette Square and Washington Square seem destined to join the one-third of all such retail centers expected to close nationally in the next 10 years. Locals call the former “Lafayette Scare” because of its reputation for danger. Multiple … Read more

Build As a development bonanza spreads from Fountain Square toward neighboring Twin Aire, companies are starting to build chic contemporary houses – it’s hard to miss the bold, angular homes at 1401, 1405, and 1501 English Avenue, for instance. These and other new dwellings offer views of the Indianapolis skyline for around $370,000 to $550,000. … Read more

Ten years ago, Naplab’s map of Indy neighborhoods became a fixture in hipster apartments. But City-County Councilor Jared Evans didn’t want to buy the damn thing until it was fixed. His stomping grounds on the west side were all wrong. He called the map designers, and his criticisms led to an update. Impassioned reactions like … Read more

Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts at Gallery 924’s TINY VI: The Year of Vonnegut exhibition, which opens Dec. 1 and runs through Jan. 5. More than 90 artists – a third of whom have never displayed in the space before – contributed pieces to the annual TINY show, which limits works to 6-by-6-by-6 inches. … Read more

One group exhibit features the artwork with first names like Frank, Rusty, Reuben, and Virgil. Another, pieces by Vernita, Elle, Sofie, and Nikki. So what’s the difference? A year-long series of solo shows at the Long-Sharp Gallery’s New York Project Space sprang from that question. The series concludes in Indianapolis with Athena Shrugged, Remix, running … Read more

Indianapolis collaborative artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm and Bloomington poet Abegunde tell the stories of women who suffered slavery, lynching, sexual violence, and other atrocities. For Storm, the work began in 2004 with a quilt that bluntly depicted one of the few known images of a woman who had been lynched – the piece was called … Read more

Delvin Rivera arrived in Indianapolis on Oct. 22, several days ahead of the National FFA Convention & Expo, as one of four delegates from Puerto Rico. “I was excited and, at the same time, so sad because I was going to leave my family back home,” says Rivera, wearing his signature FFA blue jacket. He … Read more