Kite Realty Group broke ground this week on Eddy Street
Commons, a mixed-use village adjacent to the campus of Notre Dame in South Bend. The 24-acre project calls for 90,000 square
feet of retail, 268 apartments, 75,000 square feet of office space and a 1,300-space parking garage. Kite also plans to build
condos based on market demand and two Marriott hotels in partnership with White Lodging Services Corp.
Lauth, meanwhile, is planning a giant mixed-use center
next to Bradley Center, home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. The concept calls for more than 500,000 square feet of retail
on 12 acres. The multi-level development also has a parking garage and space for dining and entertainment venues. Future phases
of the project could include high-rise office, hotel or residential towers.
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This comment is representative of a general mentality of people in Indianapolis that needs to change. We have to raise our expectations and standards when it comes to the built environment.
If you are one to think architecture and design doesn't matter, think about how you recognize any city? When you look at photos of Indy, how do you know it's Indy? Every city is characterized by its buildings in one way or another.
Indianapolis is a great city with a lot to offer, yet many of us still seem to struggle with an inferiority complex. This mentality must change in order for developers (local or otherwise) to begin to see Indianapolis in a new light and start to offer more inspired development.
I can really only speak for myself, but no one that posts here is a wannabe developer or architect. For example, I'm quite satisfied at the moment with my career as a graphic designer.
Those who you label wannabes are actually intelligent, forward-thinking, informed and concerned citizens who understand the kind of impact that the built environment of a city has on its residents and tourists.
Stating that people should be happy development is happening in Indy and Marion County at all is ridiculous. Of course developments are happening in Indy, this is a thriving, growing community that has just begun to reap the benefits of a decades-long reinvestment in its downtown.
That is why we are concerned with the Pan Am Plaza project. We want to protect and preserve the investment that has been put into our downtown. We want to see it improved, not dragged down by some lackluster, quick-buck project.
That would be neilpennies HOUSE.