Influential person: Mark Miles
Miles has overseen multiple high-profile events, earning him a reputation as both a master organizer and an expert at putting struggling organizations on an even keel.
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Influential person: Mitch Daniels
The Daniels administration used budget cuts and the renegotiation of dozens of state contracts to turn Indiana’s budget deficit into a surplus.
Influential person: Dr. Virginia Caine
Through Caine’s decades in office, facing an AIDS crisis and battling Black infant mortality, the pandemic has tested her stamina like nothing else.
Influential people: Sidney and Lois Eskenazi
The Eskenazis have funded a long list of projects, from the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture & Design, to battles against diabetes. Their crown jewel is Eskenazi Hospital.
Influential person: Jim Morris
It’s hard to think of an important Indianapolis event that Morris didn’t have a hand in.
40th anniversary: Downtown went from ghost town to ‘city’s biggest neighborhood’
Four decades ago, “it felt like tumbleweeds rolled down Washington Street.” But aggressive moves to build the city skyline, develop hotels and create more places to live led to a transformation of downtown.
40th anniversary: Indianapolis bootstraps its way into sports elite
The city’s sports landscape was sparse, indeed, in May 1980. That was before the city adopted a sports strategy that led to the Pan Am Games, the NCAA and Indianapolis Colts moving to the city, and a string of high profile events including the Super Bowl and several Final Fours. Today, the city is a sports powerhouse.
40th anniversary: Four decades later, Indy is a heavyweight in the convention world
Positioning an NFL stadium as both a sports facility and convention venue became a major advantage for Indianapolis, leading to almost four decades of using tourism to fuel economic growth.
40th anniversary: Tech pioneers spawn generations of startups
By building innovative marketing-software startups since the mid 1980s, top Indianapolis entrepreneurs have created thousands of jobs and made hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves, their investors and colleagues.
40th anniversary: Hamilton County population, amenities explode
Forty years ago, Hamilton County’s suburbs were viewed as little more than northern extensions of Indianapolis. Today, they are destinations all their own.
40th anniversary: Indy’s cultural attractions grow, expand, flourish
Change is too small a word for what has happened on the dining and cultural scene in Indianapolis over the last 40 years.
40 ideas: Grow and plan as one metropolitan area
We can and we will do big things—if we commit ourselves to creating the collaboration and systems that are needed to accomplish such a task.
40 ideas: Let’s invest in neighborhoods the way we do in sports
Indianapolis could expand the “Circle City” identity by complementing Monument Circle with additional urban halos marking important intersections and landmarks.
40 ideas: Going hyper-local to make Indy area more equitable
Central Indiana can become the most equitable metropolitan region in the United States—where disparities are minimal, power is shared, and human potential is nurtured and unleashed.
40 ideas: Turn fairgrounds into an interconnected neighborhood
Rather than isolated behind a fence, neighborhood streets could be reconnected to the outside. Rather than spending $50 million on a deluxe swine barn, we could build parking garages along the planned Blue and Purple lines to drastically reduce the more than 100 acres of surface parking.
40 ideas: Surviving the ‘cliff effect’
The path out of poverty includes moments of financial insecurity for so many. States like Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts and New Mexico are already making great strides to support families in these situations.
40 ideas: More ideas to improve Indy’s culture and community
Building more sidewalks, closing Monument Circle to traffic, and creating tiny-house villages are among the ideas readers submitted to improve Indianapolis.
40 ideas: Rebuild families hurt by addiction
Camp Mariposa is an addiction-prevention and mentoring program for youth affected by a family member’s substance use disorder.
40 ideas: Develop a fitness culture
It isn’t mandatory to have mountains or an ocean to have a fitness culture. You just decide to do it.
40 ideas: Significantly expand community health workers in central Indiana
Community health workers build individual and community capacity by increasing self-sufficiency and health knowledge through activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support and advocacy.