Year archives: 2014

With the Marott Center in New Hands, Could the Property Use Some Elbow Grease?

Normally an announcement as modest as the sale of a small, well-maintained historic commercial building shouldn’t cause anyone’s pulse to race.  And, outside of this Urban Indy blogosphere, it probably hasn’t.  Truth be told, even within Urban Indy readership, nobody’s popping any blood-pressure pills.   But the change in ownership of the Marott Center on …

Cultural Trail Clearance: Serious Business

Welcome to the flipside of the great freeze-out of 2014 (hopefully it will be the only one). I was happy to act as directed by the mayor and stayed home from Sunday until Tuesday afternoon. Fortunately, I didn’t have to leave the house to see something inspiring on the internet. Our man living next to …

10.2M rides for IndyGo in 2013

IndyGo 86 (image credit: Curt Ailes)

IndyGo recently sent out a summary of trips provided for 2013.  The major stat leading this list was that IndyGo provided 10.2 million boardings in 2013; a number not observed since 1991. A number of significant changes occurred in 2013 which lead to this new benchmark of success. Increased frequencies of the 8, 10 & …

January 2014 Wallpaper

January 2014 Wallpaper (image credit: Curt Ailes)

It is a new year! Welcome to the first installment of the 2014 wallpaper! This was taken just before Indy was inundated with the 2014 snowstorm. Oh, how I long for good cycling weather again 🙂 2560 x 1600 1280 x 853 1280 x 1024 1366 x 768