Written by Vic Ryckaert
August 30, 2013
indystar.com
Southside business owner Joan Miller believes a plan to revitalize businesses and homes along a nine-mile stretch of Madison Avenue is about more than just sprucing up a community.
It is a battle for economic survival. Read more…
The fate of a plan to expand transit in Central Indiana may be tied up in an Indiana General Assembly summer study committee, but the planners aren’t waiting.
Once again, meetings are being held all month to gather public input. The focus this time? How three of the five planned rapid transit corridors can reshape neighborhoods and provide a jump-start for stalled economic development efforts in the urban core of Indianapolis.
The conversation is no longer: Will we get mass transit? It is: What will transit do for my neighborhood? And what will the station look like down the block from my house or my job? Read more…