Photos by Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
John Sampson, president and CEO at the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership, pops a balloon filled with confetti at Shindigz Place on 919 S. Harrison St. during a fundraising and media event Thursday.
The wall starts to come apart after guests performed light demolition on the fourth floor Thursday.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette
There is a hole in one of the interior walls after a guest did some light demolition on it on the 4th floor at Shindigz on 919 S. Harrison St. during a fundraising and media event on Thursday November 29, 2018.
Friday, November 30, 2018 1:00 am
Shindigz HQ redo kicks off with a big bash
SHERRY SLATER | The Journal Gazette
Shindigz, the online party supply retailer, threw its own party Thursday afternoon for its new downtown headquarters in a historic, five-story building on the southeast corner of Wayne and Harrison streets downtown. The former Harrison Place is being renamed Shindigz Place.
Anyone who donated at least $10 was allowed to swing a hammer at one of the balloon-festooned walls in the kickoff to renovations, a company spokesman said.
The event raised $1,000 for Fort Wayne's Art This Way art installation program that pays local artists to paint murals on downtown alleyways.
Some interior walls are being removed to prepare the space for Shindigz professional and administrative staff, who will move in next year.
The company's warehouse operations and the bulk of its workforce will remain in South Whitley.
– Sherry Slater, The Journal Gazette
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