idea & initiative inventory
There are lots of organizations and stakeholders in Indianapolis that are working hard on issues that relate to those tackled by the Smart Growth District Partnership. Our job is as much connecting all those dots as it is coming up with new ideas.
As we collect them, we'll be adding these ideas and initiatives to this page. In the meantime, if you know of an initiative out there that is related to our project either by geography (22nd/Monon vicinity) or by topic (sustainability, redevelopment, planning), please let us know.
Smart Growth District Plans & Studies
- Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) Sustainable Neighborhood Renewal Workshop Report
- Partnership for Sustainable Communities Revitalization Strategy Report
- 16th Street Strategic Redevelopment Plan (Draft for Comment, May 2011)
Related Plans & Studies
The following plans and studies relate to portions of the Smart Growth District.
- Neighborhood Plans
- Transportation Plans
- Other Plans and Studies
- MLK Park New Entrance Plans (Park Avenue), 2011
- 16th Street Improvements from Illinois Street to Alabama Street, 2011
- MLK Park Proposed Master Plan, 2010
- 16 Park (New Caravelle) Site Plan, 2010
- Indianapolis-Marion County Park, Recreation and Open Space Plan, 2009
- 16th Street Transportation Enhancement Grant Application, 2005
- 16th Street at Central Avenue Urban Design & Conceptual Planning, 2005
- 16th Street FOCUS Corridor Enhancement Work Program, 2004
- Tinker Street Design Charrette (Ball State Charrette), 2003
- Tinker Street Historic Steetscape Transportation Enhancement Grant Application, 2002
- Martindale-Brightwood Neighborhood Retail Market Study, 2002
New Tinker Street Committee
This volunteer, n0n-profit group formed in 2010 seeks to promote and coordinate redevelopment activities along 16th Street (historically called Tinker Street) between Dr. Martin Luter King, Jr. Blvd and Roosevelt Avenue. Download the NTSC's 2010 Year End Report.
National Design District Download Fact Sheet
Once home to the largest automobile manufacturing factory in the world (the National Car Company), this development initiative seeks to create a unique live/work district oriented around people and enterprises that design and make things (i.e. furniture makers, landscape architects, artisans).
Anchored by the Design Factory and home to the Indianapolis Project School, the District proposal is for the area from 22nd south to 21st Street and from the Monon Trail east to Dr. Andrew J. Brown Street.
Neighborhood Stabilization Program
King Park Area Development Corporation received an award from the State of Indiana for purchase of vacant and abandoned properties for single-family or townhome redevelopment over the next few years. The efforts will be concentrated along Carrollton Ave, Bellefontaine St, and Cornell Avenue between 19th Street and 21st Street.
Sustainability Demonstration Area
The City of Indianapolis Brownfields Program is pursuing grant funding to repurpose the former "Bulge" railyard along the west side of the Monon just north of 25th Street. A brownfield that was previously proposed to house a First Tee Golf Academy, the demonstration area might include community urban farming plots, a farmers market, composting, low impact stormwater retention demonstrations, and a phytoremediation pilot (natural brownfield remediation). The area might also house a future sustainability education center.
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