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Central Indiana Regional Bikeways Plan up for review

Urban Indy is a huge champion for cycling improvements within the Indianapolis area. Cycling is a low cost, low emission and healthy way to get around for short trips to the store, to see friends, get to work, school, etc. It is with these thoughts, that I am happy to pen this review of the …

June 2011 Wallpaper

Here is the June 2011 Wallpaper.I have been SERIOUSLY slacking on the wallpaper. I blame in no specific order the wrapping up of spring semester (I passed both classes), spending time with the family (my son just turned 1!!), WORK which has been beyond ridiculously busy lately and generally catching up on real life. As …

Rebuild Indy: What are we rebuilding?

In 2010, Mayor Greg Ballard used bonding capacity against equity in our water/sewer utilities as well as future rate increases to fund a program that is called, Rebuild Indy. The first injection of funds came in to the tune of $55 million. It was used to jumpstart the program and largely includes resurfacing streets, repairing some …

Monument Circle Going Car Free For 2012 Super Bowl

In a fitting turn of events, the decision to pedestrianize Monument Circle has come full circle with the announcement that Indianapolis’s premiere public space will be closed off to auto travel during the week-long run-up to the Super Bowl next February.  According to Super Bowl Host Committee CEO Allison Melangton, the Committee is trying to …

Indianapolis Construction Roundup – 1/24/11

Welcome to the first installment of the Indianapolis Construction Roundup. My goal with this series is to provide regular updates — on a monthly or perhaps bi-monthly basis — on significant construction projects happening around downtown Indianapolis. If available, I will include photos and renderings for selected projects. For convenience, the names of each project …

Urban Design Lessons from Lucas Oil Stadium

A version of this story was originally published in Greater Greater Washington as part a two-part series on urban football stadiums. Visit the original story for more comments, thoughts and opinions about case studies, both good and bad, of other recently built urban football stadiums in America. The Indianapolis Colts have played in an urban football …

Pedestrianizing Downtown Indianapolis

It’s no secret that Ray LaHood and the current Department of Transportation believe that cities ought to be for people instead of cars.  In late October, the Department’s $600 million Tiger II grants drove home this point, as 55% of the funds are going towards mass transit or pedestrian oriented transportation improvements across the country …

Does the Indianapolis Convention Center Renovation represent a failure of design?

This past Sunday, my wife and I had the last minute pleasure of attending the first pre-season Colts game. It was a hot August Indianapolis weekend. We witnessed a great performance by the first team, and then a mediocre performance by the Colts “B” team. When we decided to make our way out of Lucas …

Guest Post by Bill Watts: The Newfields Travesty: Taking the IMA out of Indianapolis

This is guest post that was sent to me by an Urban Indy reader, Bill Watts. A reminder that we run guest posts, so if you have an article that you wish to share, please e-mail it to me at kevin dot kastner at gmail dot com. “Newfields,” the new brand for the institution formerly …

New Proposal for Long-Delayed Hotel near Banker’s Life Fieldhouse

There’s been a hotel proposed for this property for at least a decade. Seriously. It popped back up again 2 years ago. Still, nothing has been built on this valuable surface lot at the corner of Georgia and Pennsylvania Streets. However, it’s a significant enough of a proposal that the latest iteration deserved a post …

IndyGo’s Detailed Plans for the Red Line

Last evening, IndyGo released a Google Map enabled view of their detailed plans for the proposed Red Line Bus Rapid Transit route. There are a lot of interesting features included, which will be featured in this post from North to South: North turnaround at 66th and College: Any bus transit line will usually have an …

Next Train…..Going Nowhere

Mass transit in central Indiana took one-half step forward, and what some might say one-fourth of a step back.  The Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee approved a bill that would allow for expanded mass transit in Marion, Hamilton, Johnson, Delaware, Madison, and now Hancock counties.  The funding structure proposed by last year’s Summer Transit …

Indy Winter Farmers Market needs support tonight

I have been forwarded an e-mail from the person in charge of the Winter Farmers Market. I will be attending and I will post it here for anyone who is interested: Dear friends (this is a long email, but please read all the way through – it’s important),Thanks to those who have sent letters of …

Mid-Rise Green Building Planned

Ratio Architects have unveiled plans for a mixed-use building across the street from the Slippery Noodle on Meridian, called Ralston Square. Some of the features include: 150 room hotel 60 condos 41,000 sq ft of retail space The first mid-rise in the city with LEED-certification A curved north face to mesh with the railroad tracks …