INDIANAPOLIS -- Built in 1886, the Market House at City Market has stood literally at the center of Indiana’s agricultural and visitor history, right next door to the fabled Tomlinson Hall.

The Tomlinson is long gone, done in by fire in the fifties, but the Market endures…kind of.

The City Market has been empty for more than a year, put out of its misery, its doors locked, as the remaining food hall vendors struggled to hang on through COVID and the desertion of downtown by the lunchtime crowd.

In 2022 a local developer unveiled a $175 million plan to remake the City Market block: upgrade the Market House, reopen access to the catacombs below Whistler Plaza, build an apartment tower on the east plaza, turn the Gold Building into apartments, build out an alley into a pedestrian stroll an

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