Pins Mechanical is a duckpin bowling bar. It just opened right across from The Garage. Author: Meredith Juliet Updated: 8:25 AM EDT May 14, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS If you re looking for something fun to do this weekend, a new place in the Bottleworks District off Massachusetts Avenue northeast of downtown Indianapolis is offering up a great experience.
Pins Mechanical is a duckpin bowling bar. It just opened right across from The Garage.
Inside, you ll find duckpin bowling lanes, bocce ball, pinball machines and ping pong.
Pins is family-friendly, meaning kids are welcome until 7 p.m. each night. After that, customers must be at least 21 years old.
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“You need things that are completely unique and different, that you can’t replicate online,” he said.
It’s a strategy that seems to be working. Taylor, 38, opened his first Trust Hardware in 2012 along Pendleton Pike in Lawrence. His second store, at East 71st Street and Binford Boulevard, opened in October. His newest store opened this month at 911 Massachusetts Ave., right across from the new Bottleworks District development.
In 2019, Trust Hardware brought in $350,000 in revenue. Last year, that figure ballooned to nearly $1 million. Part of the growth came from the pandemic-fueled home improvement boom, Taylor said. Part came from the opening of the 71st Street store. And part came from a dramatic rise in sales at the Pendleton Pike store, which moved down the street in the fall of 2019.
With pups and personal service, Trust Hardware invests in brick and mortar
FREE NEWSLETTERS Nine-year-old yellow Labrador Roscoe accompanies Trust Hardware owner Adam Taylor as he visits his stores. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)
In a year in which the pandemic has shifted more and more retail activity online, Indianapolis-based Trust Hardware has found success by embracing a brick-and-mortar approach.
The company’s three stores are open 24/7. Each has a resident dog. You can also pick up everything from power tools to local honey to live bait. What you can’t do, at least for now, is order online. If you need plumbing supplies, a wheelbarrow or mulch, you’ll have to visit the store.
Apr 6, 2021 / 10:34 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The Bottleworks District is the new home to the Blue Collar Coffee Co.’s first Indiana shop.
General manager Paige Mason says the original owners are bringing a small-town Wisconsin taste to downtown Indianapolis.
“They really wanted to focus on the folks that are the hardworking midwestern folks,” Mason, said. “That’s the Blue Collar people that bring that to life. “
It’s an atmosphere they thought would be well-received across state lines and at the Bottleworks Hotel.
For Mason, who is also the food and beverage director of the hotel, running Indy’s first Blue Collar Coffee is a special job.