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Excellent article. Thank you for making the clear case for more homes in downtown Indianapolis.
May I also add, that the 1-70/I-65 freeways downtown take acres and acres of valuable downtown land, making it unproductive, dirty, noisy, and polluted. Replacing the freeways downtown with a Boulevard would open up land for new housing and businesses. It would also create better transportation opportunities and higher quality of life in downtown.
Neither San Francisco or Vancouver have freeways through their downtowns. Minneapolis is also in talks about removing its downtown freeways. Indianapolis could easily do the same. (Boulevard ProjectI Indianapolis on Facebook. #BlvdProjectIndy)
No, Indianapolis could not “easily” remove its downtown freeways. They are necessary parts of an integrated transportation system in the region.
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Both are transcontinental, major interstates that connect other major cities to Indianapolis. Both serve numerous commercial, industrial, and institutional uses that require heavy truck access (including the convention center/stadium complex). Both serve most of the 155,000 people who (used to, at least) go to work downtown daily. Both serve the regional health centers at Eskenazi, VA, and IUHealth. Both serve to provide easy access to the State government complex for people traveling long distances from elsewhere in Indiana. Both provide easy access to the downtown and near-downtown colleges and universities (Butler, Marian, IUPUI, Ivy Tech).
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And finally, a “boulevard” that would handle the level of traffic the interstates currently handle would look a lot like Fall Creek Parkway/Binford Boulevard or West Street, and would still require nearly the same ROW width as the interstate. And what little bit of “reclaimed” ground might exist will still be next to major traffic arteries with their noise and exhaust fumes, not exactly desirable.
Interesting think piece. But I would suggest that the beautiful cities of San Francisco and Vancouver are much closer to the “unaffordable” level of Manhattan than this article might imply. Professor Gallagher provides here an interesting statistic comparing housing units per acre among these cities. This makes me wonder how Indy’s downtown compares to other cities in terms of offices/businesses per acre or parks/public buildings per acre. Of course, I recognize that there are plenty of offices and public buildings/spaces in these other cities and that helps explain why they have so many taller residential buildings and so many residents. Over the past 15 years, perhaps the presence of so many beautiful offices, public buildings, and public spaces in Indy’s 6.5 square mile downtown helps explain why Indy’s population density has grown instead of declined. But if gasoline remains cheap, schools remains sketchy/expensive, or if downtown residents (and investors) don’t prefer high rise living such as we see in NYC, San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, Chicago, Miami, L.A., Philly, D.C., and Boston, I expect Indy’s downtown density will continue to more closely resemble cities like Houston, Columbus, Atlanta, Raleigh, Charlotte, Nashville, and Denver.
A sustainable downtown starts with safety.