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moochie · June 8th, 2012, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Deuter0nomy

Judging from the rendering on the OP, there is going to have to be some significant changes to the fenestration on the lower levels (the old Bank One building). Does anyone know if that's going to be the case. Obviously those first two floors are pretty unwelcoming and fortress-like in their current condition.

There are two different proposed floor plans for the 1st level. One is all office/retail and the other is mostly parking (as it is now) with some retail. In both cases, the first and 2nd level facades will be completely removed and replaced with something a bit more pedestrian friendly. As I understand it, the Bank One building will be stripped down to nothing but it's steel frame. and built back up.

We're all just hoping that they use the all office/retail version.. There's enough freakin parking in the area as is...

moochie · June 11th, 2012, 09:44 PM

Almost gone! Hallelujah.

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GarfieldPark · June 11th, 2012, 11:03 PM

Yeah -- now I can't wait to see those ugly pseudo gravel covered panels on the two story portion come off. I think that stuff is uglier than the plain old four story building that just came down. Some of the stuff that went up in the 70's was really horrible.

moochie · June 11th, 2012, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GarfieldPark

Yeah -- now I can't wait to see those ugly pseudo gravel covered panels on the two story portion come off. I think that stuff is uglier than the plain old four story building that just came down. Some of the stuff that went up in the 70's was really horrible.

It's like they put in extra effort to make it look like a prison...

After watching the storage facility get torn down, I'm almost a bit sad to see it go. Granted, it was featureless and had really low ceilings, but man that thing was built to last! They've practically had to chew the thing apart, not knock it down.

mobyhead · June 12th, 2012, 04:09 PM

Ah, the memories. I remember sitting in the car waiting for my ex-wife to get off work. She worked for Bank One cash ops in the basement. That place creeped me out even then.

moochie · June 12th, 2012, 05:15 PM

Taken at 9am. It'll be gone by the end of the day. I'd stay over there and watch if I could..

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moochie · June 12th, 2012, 10:16 PM

Buh Bye! The first pic shows the site just seconds before the last section came down. Interestingly, if you look to the right, there's a sign that says: "Arena Banking Center Drive-In". It hasn't been called that for decades.

I posted a few more pix just to show how different the site looks without the building. Also, with the building gone and sun shining thru, you can now see most of the parking area under the building.

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image hosted on flickr

moochie · June 12th, 2012, 10:51 PM

9 days difference:

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moochie · June 22nd, 2012, 06:36 PM

2 hours ago, the site received a code violation... for... not having the area unlocked at all times for inspectors.. $215 fine.

I mean, wtf? Are they really supposed to leave this highly dangerous area unlocked 24/7? it's under an order to have it fenced off to keep homeless out for chrissakes!! The dept of code enforcement is just ludicrous sometimes..

Anyhoo, the site has been totally prepped as far as I can tell. No groundbreaking yet.

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moochie · June 29th, 2012, 02:31 AM

I witnessed a traffic accident with what looked like at least one fatality on the site about 2 hours ago. A van flipped onto the area where the storage building used to be. Pretty awful, and police and ems arrived immediately.

I didn't stick around or take pix out of respect. I cam't find anything in the news.. Do any of the saavy people here know how to look this incident up?

moochie · July 6th, 2012, 05:19 PM

There were 8 to 10 workers on site today. It looked like they were doing something to a sewer line. They've all cleared out now.

Not terribly significant, but at least there is still work ongoing on site. I've been fearing that the site would be prepped.. then it would sit there.. and sit there.. and sit there.. not the case so far.

moochie · July 17th, 2012, 06:48 PM

Gutting of the interior of the building started today. It's a small crew, and it looks like for now they're just removing false ceilings. insulation etc., but there are dumpsters being filled and work is being done. I took no pix because there just isn't that much to see.

ablerock · July 18th, 2012, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by moochie

Gutting of the interior of the building started today. It's a small crew, and it looks like for now they're just removing false ceilings. insulation etc., but there are dumpsters being filled and work is being done. I took no pix because there just isn't that much to see.

Thanks for taking time to look up close. I drive by daily and haven't noticed much work.

I'm excited for this project more and more because of the impact it will have on watering down the number of homeless people in the area.

I don't expect them to disappear or anything, but when you put that many apartments in one area, there will be more people in the area walking around than just homeless people. There are just more and more hanging around every alley and nook from New York to Washington on the eastside of downtown. It's getting a little ridiculous again. Anyway, I digress.

moochie · July 18th, 2012, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ablerock

Thanks for taking time to look up close. I drive by daily and haven't noticed much work.

I don't think work ever really stopped, they just have had very small crews doing work inside the building.

Yesterday and especially this morning, work has picked up. There are about 20 workers onsite today, more than when they were demolishing the warehouse building. Pix below show a before and after of what was done yesterday. It's all pretty minor prep stuff from what I can see, but there's a ton of it..

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moochie · July 24th, 2012, 05:58 PM

It looks like most drywall, insulation, false ceilings etc. have been removed, and work has begun on removing electric and plumbing.

No pix. There just isn't much to see from the exterior, but lots of work is being done.

moochie · August 1st, 2012, 03:39 PM

Heavy demolition began inside the structure this morning. Heavy equipment is tearing up the parking areas, and walls and ceilings/floors are being removed. They're trucking out concrete and heavy debris at the rate of several truckloads an hour.

It's pretty neat to see exposed staircases and such, but the dust is so heavy and it's so dark under the building that good pix aren't possible.

moochie · August 1st, 2012, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ablerock

I'm excited for this project more and more because of the impact it will have on watering down the number of homeless people in the area.

I don't expect them to disappear or anything, but when you put that many apartments in one area, there will be more people in the area walking around than just homeless people. There are just more and more hanging around every alley and nook from New York to Washington on the eastside of downtown. It's getting a little ridiculous again. Anyway, I digress.

Yesterday they finally put some parking meters on all areas of Market to the underpass.. HUGE reduction in homeless today.

People without homes aren't necessarily without cars, and about 20 cars a day with people sleeping in them and around them had adopted Market Street as their designated parking/sleeping area as it was unregulated... It feels much nicer today.

CorrND · August 1st, 2012, 04:25 PM

They officially filed with the state yesterday:

https://myoracle.in.gov/reports/rwse...form_id=899081

moochie · August 1st, 2012, 10:25 PM

I went ahead and took some pix.. even though it's disappinting that you really can't see the scope of the work being done or get anywhere close to where the work is being done. Very little is visible outside the building.. but they're working their tails off. Pretty exciting.. for me anyway.

Anyhoo, here are some pix taken moments ago.

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moochie · August 1st, 2012, 11:01 PM

I thought it'd be fun to update this sequence, taken just a few weeks apart.

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June 12th, 2012, 04:09 PM	#45
mobyhead Coleman the Barbarian Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 932 Likes (Received): 0	Ah, the memories. I remember sitting in the car waiting for my ex-wife to get off work. She worked for Bank One cash ops in the basement. That place creeped me out even then. __________________ "You get yourself a job before sundown, or we're shipping you off to military school with that goddam Finklestein shit kid! Son of a bitch!" Up in Smoke (1978)

June 12th, 2012, 10:16 PM	#47
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	Buh Bye! The first pic shows the site just seconds before the last section came down. Interestingly, if you look to the right, there's a sign that says: "Arena Banking Center Drive-In". It hasn't been called that for decades. I posted a few more pix just to show how different the site looks without the building. Also, with the building gone and sun shining thru, you can now see most of the parking area under the building. image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr Last edited by moochie; June 12th, 2012 at 10:55 PM.

June 12th, 2012, 10:51 PM	#48
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	Before and After 9 days difference: image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

August 1st, 2012, 04:25 PM	#58
CorrND Chris Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 1,845 Likes (Received): 0	They officially filed with the state yesterday: https://myoracle.in.gov/reports/rwse...form_id=899081 __________________ Urban Indy Hoosier Beer Geek

August 1st, 2012, 10:25 PM	#59
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	I went ahead and took some pix.. even though it's disappinting that you really can't see the scope of the work being done or get anywhere close to where the work is being done. Very little is visible outside the building.. but they're working their tails off. Pretty exciting.. for me anyway. Anyhoo, here are some pix taken moments ago. image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

June 11th, 2012, 09:44 PM	#42
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	Almost gone! Hallelujah. image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

June 11th, 2012, 11:03 PM	#43
GarfieldPark Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2,592 Likes (Received): 16	Yeah -- now I can't wait to see those ugly pseudo gravel covered panels on the two story portion come off. I think that stuff is uglier than the plain old four story building that just came down. Some of the stuff that went up in the 70's was really horrible.

June 12th, 2012, 05:15 PM	#46
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	Taken at 9am. It'll be gone by the end of the day. I'd stay over there and watch if I could.. image hosted on flickr

June 22nd, 2012, 06:36 PM	#49
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	2 hours ago, the site received a code violation... for... not having the area unlocked at all times for inspectors.. $215 fine. I mean, wtf? Are they really supposed to leave this highly dangerous area unlocked 24/7? it's under an order to have it fenced off to keep homeless out for chrissakes!! The dept of code enforcement is just ludicrous sometimes.. Anyhoo, the site has been totally prepped as far as I can tell. No groundbreaking yet. image hosted on flickr

June 29th, 2012, 02:31 AM	#50
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	I witnessed a traffic accident with what looked like at least one fatality on the site about 2 hours ago. A van flipped onto the area where the storage building used to be. Pretty awful, and police and ems arrived immediately. I didn't stick around or take pix out of respect. I cam't find anything in the news.. Do any of the saavy people here know how to look this incident up?

July 6th, 2012, 05:19 PM	#51
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	There were 8 to 10 workers on site today. It looked like they were doing something to a sewer line. They've all cleared out now. Not terribly significant, but at least there is still work ongoing on site. I've been fearing that the site would be prepped.. then it would sit there.. and sit there.. and sit there.. not the case so far.

July 17th, 2012, 06:48 PM	#52
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	Gutting of the interior of the building started today. It's a small crew, and it looks like for now they're just removing false ceilings. insulation etc., but there are dumpsters being filled and work is being done. I took no pix because there just isn't that much to see.

July 24th, 2012, 05:58 PM	#55
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	It looks like most drywall, insulation, false ceilings etc. have been removed, and work has begun on removing electric and plumbing. No pix. There just isn't much to see from the exterior, but lots of work is being done.

August 1st, 2012, 03:39 PM	#56
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	Heavy demolition began inside the structure this morning. Heavy equipment is tearing up the parking areas, and walls and ceilings/floors are being removed. They're trucking out concrete and heavy debris at the rate of several truckloads an hour. It's pretty neat to see exposed staircases and such, but the dust is so heavy and it's so dark under the building that good pix aren't possible.

August 1st, 2012, 11:01 PM	#60
moochie Idiot Savant Sans Savant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,486 Likes (Received): 26	I thought it'd be fun to update this sequence, taken just a few weeks apart. image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr

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