By now, the DiRimini apartment complex drama has become a familiar tale to anyone following urban Indianapolis issues. The infill development project, located in western downtown Indianapolis, has been under construction since early 2010.  Over the past several months as the building rose out of the ground, it became obvious that what was being built …
If you are a regular reader, than you are familiar with the ongoing saga of the Di Rimini apartment compex located at 733 N Capitol Ave in downtown Indianapolis. A quick recap: In September of 2009, The Di Rimini under the name of Sarajo Commons submitted plans to the Indianapolis MDC and were accepted after …
Recently, I was invited on a tour of a number of new facilities under construction in Indy’s neighboring suburb to the north, Carmel. Among the places I visited that day where the Center for the Perfoming Arts; or the more commonly referred to building, The Palladium. Once complete, the CPA, will be a three facility world class …
In another of a planned type of posts here at Urban Indy, we hope to engage you, our readers, in hopes of generating some good ideas about how to tackle known, but still yet unfixed issues facing Indianapolis. Today I would like to push the paradigm of affordable downtown living. Many people ask this question …
 This Sunday, I will be departing IND for PDX, to spend a week in Portland, OR for the Railvolution conference. I hope to be able to provide some updates while I am there, but there will be a lot of work to do. The conference starts on Monday and will run through Thursday. I …
You may have noticed last week that Greg Meckstroth, blogger from Urban Out, posted on his own account here at Urban Indy. I failed to introduce him properly, so now this welcome post is a week late.  Look for more great and thoughtful posts from Greg on here in the future. We’re excited to …
Here is October’s wallpaper. Apologies for the repeated lateness. Again, my day job and other things have kept me VERY busy lately. 2560 x 1600, 1366 x 768, 1280 x 1024, 1280 x 853
An NYU grad student, Marco Castro Cosio, came up with an interesting idea to make green roofs a bit more mobile – outfit MTA buses in New York with green roofs. He’s calling the project Bus Roots. In addition to adding more green space, he also suggests that adding green roofs to these modes of …
Washington Court is a pedestrian street of Four Square houses from the Arts and Crafts-era located in Meridian Park neighborhood.  The only access for vehicles is located behind the houses along the alley, as seen here. I think I drove down Washington Boulevard well over 100 times before one day a few years ago, when …
Recently the question has been raised how to fix an ugly building, mostly in regards to the Di Rimini (and here and here and especially here). It is a hard question to answer without first discussing what “ugly” means. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, there are obvious problems with treating a …