GREAT LISTING – Is Your Business Looking For A Home Downtown?

Is Your Business Looking For A Home Downtown? Here is a great find from Craigslist located in the Broadway Corridor.  This space is currently available, but be sure to hurry, there aren’t too many of these historic spaces in such great shape available.  If your looking for space this is a must see. Be sure […]

Local Fitness Center Opens Broadway Location

Fort Wayne Gym Expands to Downtown FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – When Jason Minich opened Catalyst Fitness in 2006, he had hopes of expanding his Southwest business to downtown. A month ago, he made that possible when he opened his second location off of Broadway and Taylor in downtown Fort Wayne. “Not just downtown itself, but a […]

Downtown GE Campus, The Next Catalyst?

Iconic GE site’s future: Blight or a new light? Company, city officials discuss likely uses Dan Stockman | The Journal Gazette It sits on property at least four times the size of Harrison Square, looming over the southern edge of downtown like a giant question mark. It has been decades since the General Electric campus […]

GE Moving More Employees Away From Downtown Campus (VIDEO)

GE moves 130 to north end Salaries staff on Broadway heading to leased office By Sherry Slater | Journal Gazette General Electric Co. is moving about 130 salaried workers to a leased office on the city’s northeast side to cut costs, a GE spokesman said Wednesday.“To maintain our competitiveness, we need to consolidate to a […]

ARCH Broadway Rehab Coming Along Wonderfully

A Big Round Of Applause… To ARCH that is,  for the tremendous work they do throughout the community.  The Broadway buildings are just one of their latest projects to take shape.  If you would like to learn more about ARCH (Architecture & Community Heritage) I urge you to go to their website http://www.archfw.org/ or better yet, contact them directly […]

BREAKING NEWS: Broadway Building Partially Collapses During Renovations

Collapse At Restoration Site Ivy removal at two historical buildings Monday abruptly stopped when a large section of the back of the building known as the Canton Laundry collapsed. ARCH Inc. has been working to restore the 19th-century buildings 1014 and 1016 Broadway, which it bought last winter. The buildings have been vacant for years. […]

Some Businesses Back For Second Round Of Funding

Some of the recipients in Mayor Tom Henry’s facade grant program say they came back for a second round to fix up new properties because of the program’s success. On Wednesday, Henry announced the nine winners of the 2012 grants. In total, the organizations will receive $218,500 in city income tax money and in return […]

Facade Improvement Roundup: Eyesores No Longer

Large Portion Of Projects Are Taking Place Near Downtown Earlier today I posted about the city’s fourth year facade improvements, I wanted to provide a follow up to that article with more specifics.  It appears that 6/9 of the selected establishments are in downtown fringe neighborhoods.  I must say that I think the facade improvement program is a […]

Facade Program Kicks Off Year #4

BE SUTE TO CHECK BACK LATER TODAY FOR UPDATES The city’s Commercial Façade Grant program improves the community’s aesthetics, strengthens neighborhoods and bolsters economic development – all with a very minimal investment of taxpayers’ dollars. Over the last four years of the program, which gives business owners matching grants to give their establishments a facelift, […]

Adaptive Reuse: More Commercial / Office Space Planned On Jefferson

The Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly is reporting this week that the former Charis House, a 100-year-old mansion located at 533 W. Washington will be receiving a makeover.  The new owner, Brian Schaper of Metro Real Estate, believes redevelopments under way in the downtown area puts this 11,000 sq ft building in a prime location for office […]

The View of Progress & Notes From Me, Please Read

Even in a tough economic environment, a decade of planning is finally paying off.  With groundwork laid by the Graham Richard administration and continued by Henry’s, downtown is beginning to come alive.  From the expansions and renovations of the Grand Wayne Center to the central Allen County Public Library,  Harrison Square finally drawing closer to […]

New Commercial & Residential Units Slated For Broadway Corridor

Just a few days ago, ARCH (Architecture & Community Heritage), the Fort Wayne based historic preservation group has two new saved properties to add to their list.  The buildings located at 1014 and 1016 Broadway, just south of St.Joseph Hospital, have recently been purchased by the organisation. Although it hasn’t been announced when the renovations will be […]