What should be done with Beautiful Bush Stadium? The city has ordered appraisals of the historic ballpark
as a first step toward eventual reuse or demolition. The Indianapolis Indians played in the West 16th Street stadium until
1996, when they moved to Victory Field. After that, the ballpark briefly served as home to a midget-car racetrack. The 76-year-old
stadium now is owned by the city's parks department and is overgrown with weeds. To read more, check out the full story from this week's IBJ print edition. Photos
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Welcome to Property Lines, Indy's source for neighborhood real estate news. Your host is Scott Olson, IBJ's real estate beat
reporter. Edited by Cory Schouten.
What should be done with Beautiful Bush Stadium? The city has ordered appraisals of the historic ballpark
as a first step toward eventual reuse or demolition. The Indianapolis Indians played in the West 16th Street stadium until
1996, when they moved to Victory Field. After that, the ballpark briefly served as home to a midget-car racetrack. The 76-year-old
stadium now is owned by the city's parks department and is overgrown with weeds. To read more, check out the full story from this week's IBJ print edition. Photos
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
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Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
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Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
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a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
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millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.
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For one, there are PLENTY of vacant lots and/or parking lots within the vicinity of the High Tech Zone or whatever it's called. For crying out loud, why don't they develop those first? Secondly, this is a lovely and historical ballpark & piece of history. We simply cannot afford to lose yet another landmark! We must spruce this park up & develop it into something everybody can be proud of! Apartments in a ballpark anybody? Nice idea i would think. :)
I for one would love to see them preserve as much of the facade as possible and incorporate it into any new structure on the site. (i.e. Circle Center)
I wonder why they didn't tap an architect to do the feasibility study? Someone with a historic structures specialty (that's not what I do, FYI)?
http://circleandsquares.blogspot.com/2007/09/bush-stadium-revisited.html
An IUPUI baseball/softball stadium would be good too. CDC Guy is on the right page too.
Honestly, sorry liberty bell, I think the facade-ectomy may be the best option. If they get a really good architect to pull it off well, I think it could be pretty cool. However, I wouldn't put my money on it. I can just picture a sparkling new life-sciences building with the former facade of Bush Stadium slapped on it.
Fortunately, I don't consider myself a visionary by any means...maybe they'll find someone who really has a creative idea of how to preserve it while still making good use of the land.
On the other hand, if, as Mark suggests, a new sports venue could be built utilizing the existing facade, that might be OK. It's less disrespectful than turning it into condos!
This property should not be in the hands of the Parks Dept., who cannot even afford to keep the grass cut at Holiday Park.
Yes, I think three Catholic high schools lack stadiums: Cathedral, Bishop Chatard, and RItter. However, the first two are paying rent to IPS, who needs the $$, and none of them, nor all three combined, OK, the entire Archdiocese could not afford the upkeep on Bush Stadium.
We have a city that has a crime problem and is strapped for cash. This property will need some very deep pockets, and that still doesn't solve the crappy location, which is another reason why the Indians moved.
This is of course that we will be using it as a School dome. Here is the question? Who will pay for the renovations if this were to happen for these schools? The Public? I don't think that anyone wants to pay more taxes right now (at least in Marion County). The families of the students? Raise tuition or have fund-raisers, then later charge a nice fee to get in to help pay for the Renovations. Have students from the schools that would participate in using the location help in the renovation? The cost will help lower the over all price as well as give the students something to be proud of.
I am not sure what exactly would be best for the stadium. But I do support having several schools use the stadium. I hope that someone will take my comments into consideration and run with my ideas. I would really love to see this Indianapolis Treasure come back to life and bring breath pride into this part of town.
These student athletes love opportunities to play up a level and practice or play where the Colts and Indians do. Not sure how romantic it would be for the youngsters to play in a location that most of them never even enjoyed as a spectator.
Barring any use like that, I wonder of the feasibility of building a building within the walls. Take out the seating, leave the outer walls all the way around and build the research center or whatever. use the historic outfield walls to make a courtyard as well.
Any reuse is going to take Federal, State and local funding.
It runs right past the stadium (across Waterway Blvd.) and there is already a bridge across Fall Creek (near IU Med Center and the VA Hospital along 10th St.). So the stadium is better connected to IUPUI by foot or by bike than by car.
The existing IUPUI track and field stadium doesn't have much room on the visitor side (along New York St.) for more stands, and would have to be rebuilt to accommodate locker rooms.
http://www.biocrossroads.com/pdf/lifesciences_03_18_03.pdf
Marian College is already building a stadium. So they are out, and I doubt IU and Purdue will let IUPUI have a football team anytime soon. They were resistant to letting them have a division 1 basketball team.
Where does the trail connect across Fall Creek. I walk that stretch quite often and always assumed it dead ended at 10th. Is there signage that I am missing? My dogs will be quite happy if there is even more area to explore.
Asbestos and lead should not be extremely bad to remediate on the stadium, since most of it is readily accessible and probably has mostly fallen off.
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