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I’m very happy for our city to be hosting this event but having driven around the city quite a bit lately I can say that our roads are a disgrace and embarrassment to those guest who will be visiting. Not only is it unsightly but it is dangerous. Some of these pot holes are large and deep. They are everywhere including on 465. It is dangerous to take your eyes off the road for even a few seconds for fear of dropping into one of these craters. I don’t know who is the blame nor do I really care, but something has to be done to fix this mess. We look positively third world.
Wait until it is in Detroit next year!
Ditto !!! Embarrassing to have visitors come here and experience the conditions of the streets in this city.
Folks hate potholes but hate admitting what it would take to make them go away for good even more.
We are very good at event capture. We fill hotel rooms, sell meals, and generate a burst of activity around a Final Four, a convention, or a major sports weekend. But the larger opportunity making those visitors think: I could imagine living here. My company could recruit people here. This place has real quality of life. This downtown has soul, beauty, and momentum. We are not hitting that goal because of bad street, bad architecture and far too many ugly asphalt lots.
We can’t achieve the livability locals deserve ant that top recruits want, if we concentrate only on stadiums, arenas, and the convention center. Those facilities may draw people in, but the streets, squares, buildings, storefronts, public spaces, and an overall walkable intact urban experience. Too much of dowtown today resembles a acres of parking lots with stop light – no on finds that attractive If visitors leave having seen only that plus a game and a mediocre poorly maintained downtown, then we lose. Indy must be as serious about attracting and keeping permanent residents, talented workers, and ambitious companies as it is about attracting Final Fours, conventioneers, and fans. the CIB is great but, by itself it’s not enough. If we can match eve a fraction of what they spend on stadiums for making the rest of the center city more beautiful, walkable, lively, and lovable, we could have a downtown people would genuinely admire, not just tolerate for a weekend cuz that’s where the game is. And that will benefit more than hotel owners, out-of-towners and the lucky few who can afford a ticket to the big game.
Wonderfully written. I agree wholeheartedly.
I agree our downtown is at the best mediocre, crumbling and dirty sidewalks and patched streets. A good power wash would definitely help get rid of all the salt stains. Such a shame there is so much potential in our downtown with all the new and proposed projects.
Well I just hope that hundreds of our city’s finest youth don’t decide to do a “takeover” like has been happening around the country. That would look great on national TV.
Build it they will come.