King Park’s Cool Idea: Using The Monon Trail as a Public Street
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian on Jul 17th, 2017 | 27 comments
In the latest release of the DMD’s Hearing Examiner’s report, an interesting rezoning case was listed on page 76. King Park Development wants this strip of land between 21st and 20th Street on the Monon Trail to be rezoned from I-3 (Industrial) to D-8 (traditional urban single family housing):
Given that this strip is actually not fronted by a public street, but is instead placed between an alley an the Monon Trail, any housing development here would have to be a little creative. The rezoning case provides such an option, where 16 houses would use the Monon Trail as the public street, and...
TWG Proposes Apartments for Former Gleaners’ Food Bank Site
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Neighborhoods, New Development on Jan 20th, 2016 | 15 comments
Good news for the East 16th Street Corridor, as a multi-use project has been proposed to the Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development  (page 56).
The site plan calls for saving the southern portion with the cool brick Art Moderne look, and demolishing the rest of the less-historic structure. This ultimately means the removal of the Gleaners mural. But overall, this appears to be another win for the 16th Street corridor.
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