2011 has been a busy year in Indianapolis with road repairs, sidewalk fixes and creation and the addition of more cycling infrastructure. Generally, I feel like I should leave coverage of cycling in the city to the folks over at IndyCog. My recent observations however, have spurred me to action. This year we have seen …
Just to the south of Butler University, Berkley Road is a 3 block-long pedestrian street. This was first pointed out to me by our own Kirsten Eamon-Shine after I posted about Washington Court last year. Yesterday, my wife, daughter, and I biked over there via the Canal Towpath to see it for ourselves. The houses …
The Indyconnect proposal that is currently on the table makes no rail transit proposal for Carmel. Carmel is Indy’s largest and seemingly most prosperous suburb and has been making strides in recent years to tackle it’s long term suburban built form. These change have come in the form of a revitalized downtown arts district with …
In the past, I’ve dabbled in attempting to comprehensively cover the City regulatory approval process for new projects. Unfortunately that’s proved to be an impossibly large job. Instead, whenever I come across things in regulatory filings that interest me, I’m going to post just a little bit of info in this “Quick Hits” post with …
The Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission (IHPC) will be hearing cases related to two gas stations at their hearing tomorrow, September 7th. It’s fairly unusual to see a gas station proposal for a historic district, let alone two at once. Here are the locations for the proposals (click links for staff reports on the plans): The …
This month’s wallpaper came as a result of me scrambling to pull my camera out of my backpack on the way out of class at IUPUI. It was taken looking east from the intersection of Indiana Ave & Michigan Street. Keep your eyes open, you may just see this picture on a billboard some day. 2560 …
WTHR has reported a nice update of the East 16th Street Smart Growth District, which is currently under progress. The revitalization of this corridor is taking place in conjunction with the area centered around the intersection of 22nd Street and the Monon Trail. One of the more interesting finished products in the area is …