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Lilly understands that the future has to be built. It is building manufacturing capacity. It is building data capacity. It is building scientific capacity. But that alone doesn’t do enough to help Indianapolis compete with Boston, Cambridge, Copenhagen, San Diego, or Basel for the world’s best scientific and executive talent. The company and the city must also build the human environment required to attract and retain the people who will make that future possible. A trillion-dollar life sciences company cannot fully thrive if its surrounding urban fabric tells the world that Indianapolis is content with ugly asphalt parking lots, blank walls, mediocre streets, and low expectations. The physical city is part of the recruitment package. The world’s most valuable companies do more to make their cities beautiful places to live, why not Lilly in Indy? Lilly is not a small local employer doing its civic best. It is one of the most valuable companies in the world, headquartered in a city that desperately needs a higher standard of urban ambition. If a company of Lilly’s scale cannot help lift the physical environment around its own headquarters, who exactly is supposed to do it? Will Lilly stay with the lackluster status quo, or will use its influence and gigantic wealth to help create a real urban life-sciences district: walkable, mixed-use, architecturally serious, safe, beautiful, active, and magnetic to talent for its own good and that of Indianapolis?
One could argue that the corner of the city core that the Lilly campus exists in is one of the most walkable areas in the city. A grocery store close by, a cultural district and multiple neighborhoods nearby plus City Way a block up Delaware, the cultural trail and other trails being built nearby, etc. I don’t disagree that we can and should always do more to increase density, invest in pedestrian infrastructure, etc, but we could instead point to the northwest quadrant of the city by the statehouse as a prime example of severely underdeveloped prime real estate.
The investment into communities that the Endowment continues to make should also not be overlooked.