Focus on Crime: Data Drives Strategy
by Thomas P. Healy In one of his first official acts, Mayor Joe Hogsett tapped former public safety director Troy Riggs to serve as chief of police and deploy a data-driven cure to what the […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy In one of his first official acts, Mayor Joe Hogsett tapped former public safety director Troy Riggs to serve as chief of police and deploy a data-driven cure to what the […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy The Dec. 14, 2015, decision by Mayor Greg Ballard to lend the City’s support as local partner to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) preferred strategy to complete the North […more…]
The City of Indianapolis is reviewing bids for the Canal Esplanade—a major enhancement of the Central Canal Towpath between Guilford and College avenues. The project complements The Coil apartments project currently under construction adjacent to […more…]
Buckingham Construction Company is proposing to install a piece of public art with landscaping enhancements near the intersection of 61st Street and the Monon Trail in Broad Ripple. The site is at the northwest corner […more…]
Reconnecting to our Waterways (ROW) allocated $90,450 to Destination Fall Creek in 2014 for a plan and design to transform the spiderlike intersection at Delaware Street and Fall Creek Parkway from a jumble of signs, […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Midtown is home to Marion County’s second largest greenspace: Crown Hill Cemetery. A burial place for poets and politicians as well as criminals and crime fighters, Crown Hill is an exemplar […more…]
Indy Rezone, the city’s new comprehensive zoning ordinance, was approved by the City-County Council and adopted by the Metropolitan Development Commission in 2015. A new code normally would have taken effect Jan. 1, 2016, but […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Indy Rezone, the comprehensive overhaul of the City’s zoning ordinance, has resulted in an ordinance designed to make Indianapolis a more walkable, sustainable community. “We haven’t updated land use ordinances in […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy With two projects under way and more in the planning stages, the North Midtown Tax Increment Finance (TIF) District is off to a good start to fulfill its mission of stimulating […more…]
The Indianapolis City-County Council has given the go-ahead to the Department of Public Works (DPW) to make an offer to the Riviera Club to acquire property that will help complete Section 3B2 of the Indy […more…]