The recent closure of another LA Fitness location, despite no evidence that the company itself is declining, leads to the conclusion that health clubs, much like grocery stores and other retail, help contribute to their own sprawl. In other words, they locate and re-locate in a pattern I like to call “hopscotching”.
A hat-tip must go out to the folks at Urban Indy, which, though their (our) posts may be scant, still lives on as a conversation thread. And it was through Urban Indy conversations that I learned about the article that prompted me to write here for the first time in many moons. It’s hard to …
Ghost bikes aren’t so common on the south side. Because bikes aren’t that common. But a certain memorial near Southport, and the ethnicity of the victim, suggest that there’s more revealed by this particular tragedy. And a powerful case for better bicycle safety measures along Madison Avenue.
At the border between Indianapolis and Fishers on Fall Creek Road is a roundabout with a prominent nautical landmark celebrating the City of Fishers. But nowhere to be seen is a reference to Indianapolis, the city that helped make Fishers a thriving suburb.
The street closures intended to re-stimulate restaurants after the pandemic could help encourage a radical rethinking of parking in downtown Indy, after we gain a better understanding of people’s willingness to walk. Rehoboth Beach provides unlikely but compelling evidence.
We knew it was going to happen eventually. Sears Holdings Company recently announced the latest wave of closures for its two flagship department stores—Sears and Kmart—and they did not spare metro Indy from the chopping block. This time around, the Sears is closing at Castleton Square Mall, the largest and, in most regards, the …
The new Lightweave project in an underpass in Washington DC bears an uncanny resemblance to Swarm Street along the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. Let’s hope Lightweave leaves a bit more impact.
Earlier this year (it’s still 2017!), Buckingham Companies broke ground on the next phase of CityWay, an expansive development south of the train trestle on land formerly belonging to Eli Lilly and Company.
Considering the wonderful coverage Curt here at Urban Indy provided in the months leading up to and during the construction of the Broad Ripple Parking Garage, it’s surprising that nobody wrote a feature once it opened. But it looks like we didn’t.  So here’s a chance, now that the garage has just celebrated its fourth birthday. …
The Chatham Park proposal is going before the IHPC once again, but if the Chatham Arch Neighborhood Association continues to pick away at it, this will probably be the last time. It cannot shrink any more.