First Blue Indy Car Share Stations Announced
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, New Development on Apr 29th, 2015 | 29 comments
The city of Indianapolis has announced the first car share stations for Blue Indy. The deal now plans to tap parking meter revenue instead of an IPL rate hike, but the new deal has also come under fire.
Regardless of the messy process behind this deal, I thought it’d be good to visualize the first proposed stations, so I made a map of them and linked it below:
I’m surprised Butler University, the Airport, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are not included in the initial launch. What other glaring omissions can you think of?
Please keep in mind that there should be more installed at a...
Thoughts on Potential Urbanism of Mid-Century Modernism
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods on Apr 22nd, 2015 | 11 comments
A few weeks ago, I stopped in to the Christian Theological Seminary for this first time. I’ve often seen it mentioned as the best example of Mid-Century Modern architecture in the city, and its origins from the Irwin Miller family helps lend that argument credibility. I admit that I was slow in appreciating this style, but I do agree that this space is special:
Earlier this year, CTS released a document of their new Master Plan which includes a Spiritual Trail running through campus. Some screen captures are posted below:
This is all admirable, but I think it hits at a...
Speedway Roundabout
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian on Apr 14th, 2015 | 20 comments
The large new roundabout at the intersection of 16th Street, Crawfordsville Road, and Main Street has been completed, and I was able to get a glimpse of it recently. It is so new that it isn’t complete on the most recent Google aerial photo:
Aesthetically, the intersection’s redesign is a major improvement. Indy unfortunately has a lot of “I’d rather be anywhere else than here right now” intersections, and this was likely in the top 10:
Now it has brick crosswalks, new steel benches, street signs, and lamp posts. And people have better access the newly redesigned Main...
10th and Park
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, New Development on Apr 9th, 2015 | 1 comment
Milhaus has sent a press release promoting their new development located at 10th and Park. Unlike many new downtown projects that have occurred since the 2008 market crash, this one is intended to be owner-occupied. A few new renderings were released and are shown below:
Shown below are the approved site plans and earlier renderings on the IHPC staff report:
It looks to be a solid project...
Urban Indy’s 8th Anniversary Gathering
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods on Apr 7th, 2015 | 0 comments
Urban Indy is turning 8 years old on Saturday, April 11. Some of the bloggers and I have decided to mark the occasion with a gathering at Tomlinson Tap Room at 7:30 pm. If anyone is coming from the north side near Broad Ripple, feel free to join me on a bike ride downtown at 7 pm. We hope to see a good crowd there.
