Market and New Jersey: The Evolution of an Urban Corner
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian on Feb 8th, 2019 | 9 comments
Now that Public Greens is open on the corner of NJ and Market, I figured it would be a good time to see the evolution of this corner, which less than a decade ago was an urban disaster. How bad was it in, say, 2007? This bad:
The opposite corner was not any better. It was a surface parking lot for over a decade after the demolition of Market Square Arena:
I also looked at the corner in 2011:
The construction that is visible in the last photo is merely a gravel parking lot turning into a paved parking lot, to match the other paved lot on the north side of the street.
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Downtown Indianapolis Parking Lot Comparison: 2011 to 2018
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods on Feb 7th, 2019 | 4 comments
Back in 2012, Curt Ailes posted an article containing a few maps of the surface parking lots downtown. After these maps came up on twitter, I figured that now would be a good time to compare the lots to what currently exists.
First , I took the old lots and contrasted them with the new ones. The new configurations are shown in red below, whereas the 2011 parking lots are shown in blue:
Next, the more interesting map for our purposes. The parking lots shown in red are the ones from 2011 , while the blue ones are the existing lots:
There are fewer large blocks of...
