[CPEO-BIF] "Revitalization, remediation and retention at Sherman Park, " Indianapolis, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Revitalization, remediation and retention at Sherman Park


by JILL SHERIDAN
WFYI (Indianapolis, IN)
FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Indianapolis is dotted with properties that echo its industrial past – where factories closed, jobs disappeared, and pollution threatened health and kept property values low. Throughout 2022, WFYI will report on efforts to revitalize those communities. Efforts in the Rivoli neighborhood, on the city’s Near Eastside, focus on one area that used to be a neighborhood hub.

But can development efforts at a large brownfield site in Indianapolis bring environmental, economic and social justice to a disinvested community? The area in question is Sherman Park, former home of an RCA and then GE plant. There used to be 8,000 jobs here.

“These huge industrial sites that were employment centers, as they went, you know, you also saw a lot of people leave,” Aryn Schounce, chief policy director with the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, said.


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For the entire story, see
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/revitalization-remediation-and-retention-at-sherman-park

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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