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Maybe the city should approach some of the 20+ other fueling locations and see what can be done to make them more aesthetically pleasing or don’t conform. Wawa certainly builds a very nice looking building. The whole transit overlay is government speak for veto things they don’t like…whether or not local citizens do.
Most bus riders are on EBT probably, so if a business doesn’t accept it, then let off special woke standards.
This is ridiculous what the city is doing here, millions in new investment because why? People won’t ride the bus as much? Hell if they put a bus station out there that might work. Also what about park and ride?
You don’t get out of blight by building more gas pumps. So many of you blame the residents for the poor conditions – but refuse to hold the city and developers accountable for the bad choices that led to it. Gas stations aren’t bringing prosperity to the city.
Democratic rule has led to our city being a pothole ridden war zone and homeless camp. I live downtown and experience it everyday.
I have no faith my neighbors will ever vote out the likes of drunk Mayor Joe and his Soros Prosecutor.
Indy has such potential as do the Dem run cities Like Chicago, Detroit, NY, LA etc. So sad what they’ve done.
Washington Street is a Federal Highway! Why don’t they just get on with creating their fancy bus line, and let the developers do their thing? The east side is a pit, and needs whatever face lift it can get!
No, Washington Street is not a federal highway. US 40 ends at 465 on both sides of town. It is only US 40 from the county lines to 465. This is a local street.
Let the developers do their thing is not a plan for rebuilding an area.
Interesting to see the blame for this placed on Democrats. As if this area of town just collapsed in the past few years. Hogsett was elected in 2015; this area of town was already in sustantial decline. From 1968 until 2000, 32 consecutive years, Indy had Republican Mayors. Peterson, a conservative Democrat, was Mayor from 2000 until 2008. Then Ballard, a Republican, from 2008 until 2016. Then Hogsett. The East side did not collapse under Hogsett.
The contested overlay which prohibits this WaWa is part of an ongoing effort to make Indy a better place to walk or ride a bike, and live. Street lanes are being reduced to make them slower, and safer for pedestrians. WaWa’s are nice places. But the neighborhood doesn’t improve by building a nice gas station. If it was that easy, we’d have nice new gas stations everywhere. 28 other stations within 2 miles…if WaWa were to be built, it would likely lead to more abandoned gas stations elsewhere.
The other stations aren’t built in downtown Marion County. They’re built in new and growing suburban areas, outside of Marion County, that are just now adding stations to areas that until five years ago were open fields. WaWa’s aren’t built there to bring in new development; they’re there to serve the other development.
I’m not sure Wawa is just a gas station. Are the large Speedway facilities gas stations? It more resembles a convenience store.to me.
so ridiculous, they can put these in other areas of Indianapolis, Noblesville, and there at 96th and Keystone Avenue without issues but lets not allow in a terrible area of Indianapolis because of development standards.
Further proof of the death of common sense.
What the city planners have refused to understand, and maybe even notice, is that Washington Street from Shadleland to German Church Road is a very wide Suburban Highway, not an urban street. The planned argument of a transit oriented corridor ignores this fact.
Have the planners seen the vacant and derelict adjacent properties in the area of the proposed Wawa? The ancient Eastgate mall mostly remains as a reminder of poor city planning and poor marketing for new development.
Wawa won’t save the area, or save the city, but it will bring a new focus and new life to this immediate desolate area.
The city and the MDC need to realize sometimes the previous adopted plans created to justify the Blueline, are not always the best for the street, the neighborhood, the Eastside, and the city at large. More failed opportunities is NOT what we need here!
At some point the elephant in the room needs to be addressed. Let’s be honest, the multi-colored bus system is a bust! Hopefully IBJ’s investigative reporters will dig to find the funding sources and who pushed it through to ruin some of our most beautiful streetscapes.
Transit-oriented development is a good “theory” and does work provided that you have enough people using the public transportation. If you look at highly traveled public transportation systems in Chicago/ Atlanta you can see development growing around where the passengers interact with the mode of transportation. What remains to be seen is if the blue line will produce enough riders to make the concept viable her in Indianapolis. If it does not it would be a shame to see the city chase off a positive investment in an area of town that sorely needs it.
I am in favor of the blue line and hope it is successful but the east side of town could really use some new investment and the tax revenue that comes with it and to see the city push away national retailers because they do not fit in the box the city has come up with seems like a bad move.