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Unmentioned in this article is Salesforce’s new 57-story, 821-foot tower in Chicago that boasts 1.2 million square feet of space. The Chicago Salesforce Tower was announced back in 2018, and has recently completed its construction. In addition to its new building, Salesforce announced plans to bring 1,000 new jobs to the Windy City, which news reports at the time said would serve as the company’s regional headquarters. Salesforce has already filled those 1,000 local jobs. For Indianapolis, the question is whether Salesforce will sacrifice jobs here for the sake of jobs in Chicago.
the other question that comes up is, why would Salesforce have a large presence here and in Chicago, where they are completing a new build?
Remember when Salesforce came to town, after buying ExactTarget? So much bluster then about how Indy would be its second global headquarters? Anybody believe that back then? Once again, Indy proves to be a sucker. And just continue to watch as Lilly expands dramatically outside of the state. We’ve spent too many years not investing in education and workforce development, and not the chickens are coming home to roost. Indy’s best days are waaaay behind it.
Downtown Indianapolis is stagnating, Even Jim Irsay recognizes that.
We haven’t had hardly any job creation downtown in the last 25 years.
Salesforce has been our only victory since they’ve came here. Other than Sales force, job creation downtown has been meager.
We haven’t even built one major office tower in over thirty years. Other than hotels, not one major building has went up. This because no jobs are being
created downtown.
Our other short coming was not turning IUPUI into an Independent University with an emphasis on research and development. We should have done that
no less than 40 years ago,
Neither Lilly nor Anthem have had one major expansion downtown probably in
the last thirty years or more.
Athem has become one of the largest insurance companies in the nation through
acquisitions and mergers. Yet not one major jobs announcement for downtown
Indianapolis. Same goes for Lily.
Downtown Indianapolis is stagnating. Without major job creations downtown
can not and will not progress.
Oh, and remember…this is my favorite part…they were going to build a giant new tower downtown to house their second global headquarters, Indianapolis?
“We’ve spent too many years not investing in education and workforce development, and not the chickens are coming home to roost. Indy’s best days are waaaay behind it.”
Spoken like an Indiana state legislator. Throw in the towel. Give up. Eat the seed corn. There is no future.
“Downtown Indianapolis is stagnating. Without major job creations downtown can not and will not progress.”
You’re forgetting about Elanco, but keep going.
Downtown Indy, like a lot of other downtowns, is going through massive shifts between hybrid work schedules, work from home, and the recession. Throw in our dependence on convention business and it’s been a rough period.
You want to blame Indianapolis officials? Sure. Fine. Just don’t forget the role that the Statehouse has. All Republican legislators are doing is importing the same ideas and perspectives that don’t work in their own hometowns to the entire state and … guess what? They still don’t work!
“We’re a low cost state and housing is affordable!”
Put another way, our infrastructure stinks and no one wants to live here.
Maybe what Republican legislators need to do is look at what’s working in Carmel and Fishers and Zionsville and take those ideas and import them to their corner of Indiana.
Maybe there’s a reason that Mitch Daniels nearly 20 years ago said it was time for a truce on the social issue legislation. Maybe it’s time for legislators to listen to those corporate leaders who are telling legislators the same thing today… as opposed to telling them “don’t dare speaking up about abortion, you won’t change a thing”.
Joe B.
Downtown is stagnating. We’ve had very little job creation downtown over the
last 25 years. It’s showing. Buildings looked run down so do the sidewalks.
You mentioned Elanco. That’s not creating new jobs. It’s moving jobs from one part of the metro to downtown.
City Market is practically on its last leg also. Vagrants and panhandlers hang out in front by the entrances. No one wants to wade through that.
Look at Monument Circle. More vacant space than ever before. It’s run down.
It looks worse than it ever has since I moved here in 84.
Our downtown office vacancy rate is higher now than during the pandemic.
We have not built one new office towervin almost 30 years because the
demand is not there.
Look at the area around Georgia Street and the convention center. It’s dirty and
dingy. It’s only getting worse. Not to mention all the panhandlers and homeless.
If Indianapolis doesn’t start taking steps immediately to turn this around, it will
be to late.
Three things needed to turn things around—
1). We need the private sector much more involved like they were in the 80’s.
Indianapolis was on a roll back then. Downtown was cleaner and Monument Circle was more vibrant. There was a true sense of optimism. Mover and shakers must be more involved.
2). We must be aggressive in promoting our city and downtown to bring jobs.
Treat downtown job creation as a BLOOD SPORT. No participation trophies.
3). Get the vagrants and the panhandlers off the streets.
The state legislature should provide the proper funding to help Indianapolis over
come our financial shortfalls from having to subsidize the Pacers and Colts
to the degree that we do. Indianapolis can NOT keep subsidizing both the
Simmons and Irsays to the degree that we do. That’s money. that is badly needed
to be reinvested in downtown.
Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Austin, all sell themselves everyday.
Indianapolis must start promoting and selling itself as a great place to live,
work. and play. I don’t mean cheesy awe shucks advertising.
I mean top notch marketing & advertising to promote our downtown.
Is Mayor Do-nothing Hogwash doing anything to keep these jobs in Indy. He’s so useless. Worst mayor indy has had in decades.
That would fall under holcombs purview IMO
Rumors are Salesforce reduced its occupancy in the Indy Salesforce Tower to two or three floors a while ago. Therefore, one can only assume reading the “tea leaves” they will be substantially reducing their footprint in Indianapolis in the near future when they can either dump their current lease and/or sub-let the space. And, rewinding the music that was played when Salesforce purchased Exact Target, Salesforce received an attractive tax reduction package from the City/County with the promise to consolidate their offices and bring the thousands of workers based in Indianapolis area downtown to benefit the local businesses and restaurants, etc. The Results, 22 high end restaurants have left Indianapolis, CVS closes one of its downtown locations located a hundred feet away from the Salesforce Building, the Mall downtown is a ghost town, and the City’s Leadership seems to think building and/or converting office Space to Apartments is a “success story”. And high end Convention Business is dead as high end restaurants leave and the few restaurants that replaced them focus on “bar food” and “desert” establishments. The next problem will be the airport, as part of the deal with Salesforce, a financial arrangement was established by the City/County to offer “direct flights” on non-cigar (50 to 70 passenger) planes that will most likely disappear shortly, also impacting the convention business in Indianapolis. If you look at the investments Nashville is undergoing in the next couple of years to their downtown area, Indianapolis is in real trouble. Very Sad, as this city was really on a growth path for a couple of decades.