May 18, 2013
Lou HarryThird in a month-long series of Cultural Trail restaurant reviews.
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May 11, 2013
Lou HarrySecond in a month-long series of Indianapolis Cultural Trail restaurant reviews.
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May 4, 2013
Lou HarryAfter more than a decade of planning, The Indianapolis Cultural Trail will have its official ribbon cutting May 10 with a
coming-out party on May 11. And that’s when boosters and skeptics alike will be watching to see what exactly Indianapolis
is going to do with its difficult-to-grasp landmark.
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May 4, 2013
Lou HarryFirst in a month-long series of Indianapolis Cultural Trail restaurant reviews.
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May 4, 2013
Lou HarryWhile I’ve been bullish on the Cultural Trail, I realized recently that I haven’t actually walked it—at
least, not all of it. Time to change that.
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May 19, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe city of Indianapolis and private-sector players are lining up behind an effort to rebrand the Central Canal Towpath as
an art-themed destination dubbed Art 2 Art by adding artwork and improving the trail.
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December 13, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Central Indiana Community Foundation and Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc. have pulled the plug on a controversial sculpture
depicting a freed slave.
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October 12, 2011
IBJ StaffThe joint effort between local architects and tourism officials allows residents and visitors to download self-guided audio
tours of the city's major monuments, sports venues and public buildings.
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October 7, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinControversy has swirled around a piece of art commissioned for the Cultural Trail’s $2 million public art program. What
ultimately happens to Fred Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum” sculpture of a freed slave could alienate local African-Americans
who oppose it or draw the scorn of national art critics.
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September 8, 2011
Cory SchoutenPlanning around the Conrad's valet parking operation posed the most challenging dilemma faced by organizers of the 8-mile
Cultural Trail.
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May 27, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinIndianapolis Cultural Trail Inc. has hired its first executive director, Karen Haley, who was also the first director of the
city’s Office of Sustainability.
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April 28, 2011
Anthony SchoettleThe latest piece of art to be installed along downtown Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail will cost almost as much as the
first eight displays combined.
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January 29, 2011
IBJ StaffThe Chicago-based Joyce Foundation has granted $50,000 to support the Central Indiana Community Foundation’s ongoing
outreach efforts surrounding the controversial sculpture.
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January 18, 2011
Tom HartonA downtown advocate who renovated and repopulated a commercial building on what was once a desolate stretch of Massachusetts
Avenue hopes to do the same on Virginia Avenue, where he just closed on the purchase of three contiguous commercial buildings
totaling 15,000 square feet.
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January 14, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indianapolis Cultural Trail being built through the heart of downtown will include sculptural gardens dedicated to Martin
Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln, an extension of the $2 million Glick Peace Walk.
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October 5, 2010
Tom HartonThe two-story industrial building along the Indianapolis Cultural Trail will be converted into a furniture store.
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October 2, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinA new not-for-profit organization will try to raise more than $700,000 a year for the trail’s ongoing maintenance, and
it will market the trail as a tourism and economic-development engine.
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May 8, 2010
Michel MounayarToo few of the city's revitalization projects are connected by attractive sidewalks, streets, gardens and plazas.
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November 5, 2007
Tammy LieberIf the idea of building a $50 million, 7-1/2-mile pedestrian and biking trail through the streets of downtown Indianapolis
is indeed crazy, Brian Payne might be considered the Indianapolis Cultural trail's mad scientist. His leadership, persistence
and passion for the project are the key reasons the first leg of the trail is due to open this month along Alabama Street.
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It's also across the street from Fogo de Chao and Morton's....
Yep, the haters are trying to make good news bad. I guess it is hard to get people to believe the series is dying when they are gaining new sponsors.
David Copperfield! I remember watching his specials on TV when I was little.
Don't forget this is next to an MMA gym, a pawn shop, and some abandoned spaces.
Good project for Zionsville - A group who has owned the property for many years has waited and worked patiently to bring highest and best use development to a major corridor, and mix that in with the great downtown you have. Win Win. All the Best to Pittman Partners and Zionsville.