If you’ve ever watched Sex and the City, you can’t help but take note of the moments when Carrie is walking to and from her Upper East Side apartment. If you’re like me you might think ‘now that is a neighborhood I would love to live in.’ The intimate narrow streets, beautiful human scaled buildings, and …
For years, a dilapidated structure has sat on a triangular patch of land on Indianapolis’ northeast side. The property bound by Binford Blvd, Allisonville Road and 45th street named Keystone Towers is a structure which for all intents and purposes, has turned into an eyesore. It is abandoned, behind on property taxes, vermin infested and …
This Valentine’s Day season the internet world will be flooded with stories like “The top 10 cities for single people to find love” or “The best cities for a romantic getaway.” These stories are all based on the same premise – that finding a great match and maintaining a strong relationship is much easier in …
This is the second of a two-part series on responsible land use in Center Township. This relatively new structure also happens to sit on an odd-shaped lot, located on College Avenue in Fletcher Place: The building, known as Fletcher Place Terrace, currently houses a law firm and 6 apartment units. I won’t speak to the …
By early spring, construction on the fully funded Cincinnati Streetcar will officially begin, starting an exciting chapter in that City’s urban core and charting a new course for urbanism in the Midwest. You would think this would be a time of celebration for Cincinnati as they have been fighting the good fight to bring rail …
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 …
Here is the Wallpaper for February 2011. Sorry, no image only this month. Just scraping by on free time to get this done right now. Enjoy! This is obviously, the new JW Marriott in DT Indy that opened last week. 2560 x 1600,1280 x 853, 1280 x 1024, 1366 x 768
This is the first of a 2 part series. Â Today is an example of what not to do when designing a new development. Â I always like to lead with the bad news first, then get to the good news, which will come later this week. It’s probably apropos that a new BMV features such …
Well, the notorious ice storm of 2011 has come and well… it’s sort of still here. My office has been out for 2 days now, yet I still managed to make it to Broad Ripple village to get coffee and things for the family. I was particularly impressed by what I have shown in the …
Indiana House Bill 1354 was read on January 18th 2011. The bill as proposed would require INDOT to include “complete streets” guidelines into INDOT’s approved design manual. A summary of the bill, along with it’s travel through the legislature, can be read here. When I first read about this, I pumped my fist in the …