INDIANAPOLIS — In the late 1880s, the Warehouse District along the 200 block of South Meridian Street was where early Hoosier merchants invented and practiced business in Indianapolis.
The buildings were narrow and deep, the third floors were never intended for occupation and the construction codes fell far short of 21st-century standards.
For decades, the block has been home to several bars, some of them quite notorious and known for gunfire and trouble until the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, as well as state authorities, shut them down…