A Car-Free guide to Indianapolis
This article was originally posted on the Columbus Underground website on August 1st, 2011. I have updated it to be more helpful for all visitors, as well as adding a few important new bits of information as the city prepares to host Super Bowl XLVI. Indianapolis is a great place to visit for a weekend getaway. The city is famous for its Motor Speedway, sports teams, and revitalized downtown. But what about the rest of the … Read entire article »
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Mid-North Quality of Life Plan Unveiling Tonight
6 Mid-Northside neighborhoods have been working on a quality of life plan, and the plan’s unveiling takes place tonight at the Children’s Museum at 5:30 PM. For more information of the scope of the plan, the group has put together a video. Here is a map of the neighborhoods taking part in this effort to revitalize a core section of the city: I will not be able to attend, but I hope to hear from people … Read entire article »
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Buses-N-Beers
On Saturday, January 21st, join Urban Indy bloggers Saturday Graeme Sharpe, Joe Smoker, and I for a one-of-a-kind excursion to promote Mass Transit and responsible beer tasting (ok, so there will be some beer drinking, not just tasting) in advance of the upcoming Super Bowl. IndyGo is FREE during Super Bowl weekend, so this is intended to be a bit of a guide for guests, as well as a promotion of local businesses in some of our favorite Indianapolis neighborhoods. And as far as this Saturday is concerned, Graeme has a few free bus passes for the first few people to show up at Twenty Tap. Here is our very simple schedule: Around 4 PM, meet at Twenty Tap at 54th and College. Wait outside for the IndyGo Bus 17 at either 5:10 or … Read entire article »
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A Parking Solution for Mass Ave? It already exists.
The Urban Times has posted a story regarding the possible creation of TIF districts at 2 important projects along Mass Ave. For the purposes of this post, I will focus on the parcel that contains the bulk of the discussion in the article, the northwest 500 block. A sticking point for any development in this city is parking. In this short paragraph, the article highlights the neighborhood’s desire for additional parking Parking, in fact, was stressed more … Read entire article »
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Friday Fun: The new Jos. A Bank downtown
Man, what a difference removing a tacked-on facade from the 1970′s can make! The revitalization of a few long-downtrodden blocks along East Washington Street is one of the more interesting developments of the past few years. The Cultural Trail along here seems to be helping draw more foot traffic as well. Here’s a reminder of what this building looked like during renovation: I’ve longed for this stretch of historic buildings to be revitalized, and it seems … Read entire article »
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North Midtown Economic District
Northside neighborhood group Midtown Indianapolis, Inc (formerly Harmoni) has been instrumental in helping to stem potential decline and promote community reinvestment. A place where this could have a great impact is the newly proposed North Midtown Economic District. A map of the boundaries (which includes the homestead of yours truly) is shown below: I asked Kathryn Shorter, President of Midtown, for more information on the proposal. This is what she had to say: (The) purpose is to … Read entire article »
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P.U.P.’s IndyGo Bus Stop Update
The first Bush Stadium seats have been installed at the corner of Alabama and Vermont Streets. The official unveiling was took place at 10:00, and I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the event. I chatted with Michael and Jessica Bricker from People for Urban Progress, as well as Bryan Luellen, Annette Darrow, Jessica Mitchell, and Samantha Cross from IndyGo in the hopes of finding out some more information about the project. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Urban Indy: … Read entire article »
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Friday Fun
Why yes, it is a building. I’ve always loved this. Corner of Ohio and Delaware. … Read entire article »
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Guest Post – Broad Ripple Bike Lane Background, by Thomas Healy
The Broad Ripple bike lanes are the most contentious project that Urban Indy has ever covered. The article posted by Curt Ailes turned out to be the most commented on the site, but it was getting so heated that I decided to shut down the discussion for the time. We have reached out to one of the major players in the process, Tom Healy, member of the Broad Ripple Village Association Board, in the hopes of adding some additional background information about how the bike lanes came in to existence. I hope this article can shed a bit of light on the situation (the original article with images can be viewed here via pdf). ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Aspirations for bike lanes on Broad Ripple Avenue date back to the mid-1980s when the Mayor’s Bicycle … Read entire article »
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People for Urban Progress’ Latest Idea: Bush Stadium Seat Reuse
People for Urban Progress presented their latest idea for massive reuse at the Think Farm event on November 11th. They are in the process of refurbishing the stadium seats in vacant Bush Stadium and locating them at bus stops around the city. I love the idea of taking something that has exhausted its use, and giving it to a cash-strapped organization that has an obvious need. Smart and resourceful organizations such as PUP have the capacity … Read entire article »
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