Shinola Hotel Brand Expanding to Indianapolis

A proposal submitted by Boxcar Development in Indianapolis envisions the former CSX building in downtown Indianapolis redeveloped to include a Shinola Hotel, a music venue, retail space, and a pedestrian skybridge.

Boxcar has signed a letter of intent with Detroit-based Bedrock Manufacturing, which owns the Shinola brand, and Sage Hospitality Group, which manages the Shinola Hotel in Detroit along with more than 60 hotels nationally.

According to the proposal, the Indianapolis Shinola Hotel will be housed in a new 13-story tower and occupying 226,000 square feet. It will offer:

• A mix of 170 deluxe rooms and suites
• Indoor and outdoor terrace banquet, meeting and event spaces
• Fitness center
• Upscale restaurant
• Bar
• Shinola retail store

Investment in the project is expected to equal $300 million, with demolition beginning in the fourth quarter of 2024 and construction completing in 2027. The plans, submitted to the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, will be available for public review later in July and discussed at a public hearing in August.

Indianapolis-based Ratio Architects will lead design of the hotel and related spaces. Populous, a global firm specializing in gathering spaces, whose notable projects include Sphere in Las Vegas and the Fieldhouse of the Future renovations at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, will lead design of the music venue. Boxcar is finalizing details on an agreement with Live Nation to operate the live music venue.

Ratio and Populous will curate the architecture and design in a way that is complimentary to and reminiscent of the historic Warehouse District in which much of the project will sit. The development addresses long-standing blight at a critical intersection in the downtown, creates new retail space along Georgia and Pennsylvania avenues, and fills an existing cultural need for event space with a new 4,000-capacity venue.

The plot is the last undeveloped site in one of Indianapolis’s most important neighborhoods.

Also planned for the project is a two-level below-grade parking garage and a wide pedestrian skybridge connecting to the Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

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