LISC Indianapolis, Anthem Foundation launch $2.45M food-access effort
The Anthem Foundation and LISC Indianapolis on Tuesday announced a major initiative to provide more equitable food access, starting with one Indianapolis neighborhood.
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Naptown Fitness team plans to buy, renovate classic 1930s building in Midtown
The smooth limestone building at 3902 N. Illinois St. with streamlined Moderne design touches has been vacant since a brewpub closed there in 2018. Before that, it was a Double 8 Foods store and the Hoster-Hiser Ford and Lincoln-Zephyr car dealership.
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Black residents near Indiana Avenue want projects in tune with neighborhood
A $70 million mixed-use proposal—later withdrawn—by Buckingham Cos. for property at 719 Indiana Ave. owned by the Walker Center met significant opposition.
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Architect Stephen Alexander helping to sketch future of Old Southside
He has a big plan for the south side of downtown, but the plan is ever evolving and it will require hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and large-scale rethinking of development along the Interstate 70 corridor.
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2019 Carroll Award winner: Mark Miles’ eclectic career has centered on big events
Ask Miles about his wide-ranging resume, and he compares it to Forrest Gump’s.
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Martindale-Brightwood chosen for Lift Indy development program
The neighborhood will receive about $3.5 million in funding over the next three years from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Home Investment Partnership Program and the Community Development Block Grant program.
Community development exec Tedd Grain moves to new job with Eskenazi
At Eskenazi Health, Tedd Grain, who had been at LISC since 2009, will be tackling food access issues, economic mobility and other social factors that affect local residents’ health status.
Community development in Old Southside is on the move
City program Lift Indy will direct $4 million in investment throughout the neighborhood. Many of those projects are already underway or will be launched in 2021.
City-County Council plan would fight food access, insecurity issues
Proposal 337 could move the needle forward on food insecurity and access problems by creating a structure that brings together and guides stakeholders already working on solutions.
Housing to target foster kids aging out of system
Community officials are hopeful a new east-side housing project focused on young adults aging out of foster care will go a long way in furthering the area’s efforts to reduce homelessness.
Cook Medical, not-for-profits joining forces on $15M medical device facility
Cook has partnered with Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana and several other community organizations to build the manufacturing facility, which is expected to employ 100 employees on the northeast side of Indianapolis.
Senior housing project planned in Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood
Situated across from Douglass Park, the project would feature a 17,450-square-foot structure with 34 two-bedroom apartments and about 60 parking spaces.
Cityscape Residential offers Noblesville council additional details on Nexus project
Indianapolis-based Cityscape Residential’s plans to ask the city for an $8 million TIF bond to help support its 287-unit luxury apartment complex. The project is also slated to feature a potential three-story, 30,000-square-foot office building.
Q&A: Grocery/cafe offers food in a desert
In its ongoing effort to provide more food access to marginalized local neighborhoods, not-for-profit Flanner House of Indianapolis opened Cleo’s Bodega & Cafe last summer.
Plan to house homeless off to slow start
It’s been more than two years since the city and state chose four developers to build 500 affordable housing units—including some reserved for people experiencing homelessness.
North-side community development group hires new CEO
Elan Daniel, a former deputy director of community and economic development for the city of Indianapolis, will start with Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corp. next month.
Merged not-for-profit group to push redevelopment out to townships
Renew Indianapolis will merge with the King Park Development Corp. on Jan. 1.
Renew Indianapolis merging with King Park Development Corp.
Beginning in January, the community development organizations will operate as one, with a joint 15-member board of directors and a four-person executive leadership team.
New neighborhood investment fund targets areas around 16 Tech Innovation District
The 16 Tech Community Investment Fund is seeded with $3 million and plans to issue up to $1 million in grants in 2020.
Cities seek state authority to join forces on taxes, projects
Central Indiana elected officials want to create a formal organization that could combine regional resources to pursue transformational projects.
Chase donates former branch, $500,000 to community organizations
The former bank branch, which closed in late 2016, will reopen as a co-working space called Vault.
North-side community development group searching for new CEO
Top executive Leigh Riley Evans plans to leave Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corp. later this fall after helping shepherd a $60 million project.
Black leaders say it’s time to formulate black agenda
A broad coalition of faith-based groups, black elected officials and civic leaders are turning to this year’s mayoral race as an avenue for bold discussions about racial problems.
Long-delayed, $60M project in Mapleton-Fall Creek back on track
The neighborhood’s community development corporation has recast its vision for the expansive Central@29 project and hopes to begin construction of its first phase of apartments next summer.