[CPEO-BIF] Indianapolis Smart Growth Redevelopment District

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Blighted area eyed for revitalization  	
Transit, sustainable development likely to be themes in rescue of 
near-north neighborhood


Chris O'Malley
Indianapolis Business Journal (IN)
May 30, 2009 	

A proposed passenger rail line between downtown and Noblesville has 
drawn applause from Hamilton County commuters enduring highway congestion.

But local leaders and, soon, a national team of experts, are quietly 
developing a strategy to revitalize what lies on the other end of the 
line: Marion County's biggest concentration of brownfield sites and 
impoverished urban neighborhoods.

The effort is focused on a three-quarter-mile radius centered at East 
22nd Street and the Monon Trail, an area now referred to in some 
quarters as the Indianapolis Smart Growth Redevelopment District.

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For the entire article, see
http://cms.ibj.com/ASPXPages/6iframes/FrontEndArticlesDetailPage.aspx?ArticleID=38629&NoFrame=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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