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A lot of progressive verbiage in a fairly short article. I can see why this won’t get very far.
You summed it up pretty good and accurately Donald!
+1 Donald.
Did Buckingham really propose to demo the Walker building? That would seem to be a non-starter. And if the local activists can help prevent that, more power to them.
The Madame C. J. Walker Building (1927), a National Historic Landmark, is located at 617 Indiana Avenue. I’m sure it’s in no danger.
Walker Plaza, located (as mentioned in the article) is located at 719 Indiana Avenue. It is a modern three-story building, probably less than fifty years old (see the Google Streetview photo).
I am always amazed when the city or state contract with out-of-state vendors when we have extremely well-qualified local (Indianapolis & Indiana) landscape architects. And by the way, many of these local landscape architects are graduates of Indiana based universities. They would also probably better understand the history of the area. Just a thought.
100% agree! It’s very frustrating that municipal and state contracts don’t stay in within the state. Especially, when we have the qualified people here to do the work.
Start by spelling Madam Walker Theatre correctly. Theater is the correct spelling.
When I started at IUPUI in 1988, I remember the student union was in a little shotgun house about where the law school is now. It looked like it could have been one of hundred houses just like it.
Between the school and then the city’s urban renewal efforts, the entire area has been obliterated. I don’t see how you recover from that.
At first read I was perplexed, second read I was very disappointed, after my third read it was extremely disgusting! Very typical of the city to let this happen before termination of the contract with no product!
Blowing through $450,000 with no product, and maybe learning historical facts and exaggerations, the Brooklyn NY firm was apparently, as the article says, academic! Similar the the Thomas Cook and city investigation by the out of town law office, another Half Million Dollars wasted at our expense. The timing of Dan Parker resigning from his deputy Mayor job is also suspicious in this project failure! And for Olon Dotson, join the club mister! This city, before, during and after Hogsett, loves those out of town firms with no knowledge or experience of the project area or it’s history! When I first heard they hired a black female landscape architect from NY, I thought give her a chance and let’s see!? Hate to say it, but squandering $450K sure looks like incompetence implicating it was out of her league, sometimes known as a DEI hire. Also, not involving IU Indy and Purdue all through the process is almost unbelievable as they both are the two single largest stakeholders in this entire project area.
Even though Alan K is a local and a locally experienced landscape architect, his firm is still an out of towner, and they are anlso updating the Regional Center plan. How convenient for the kids running DMD!
All I can say is good luck to the folks and groups working on Indiana Ave., you’re going to need it!
They could have engaged Indianapolis landscape architects Land Collective, who did the beautiful work around the new Cummins hq, or KW Landscape architects — both firms have offices in the Stutz a mere 2500 feet from the site in question, or or HWC Engineering, whose offices are 4750 feet from the site in question, but no! Pay half a milly to somebody in Brooklyn that did nothing, and now more to some other out of town firm.