Great Places 2020: Plans revealed Tuesday to transform three Indy neighborhoods | CBS 4 – Indianapolis News, Weather, Traffic and Sports | WTTV People living in three neighborhoods in Indianapolis will find out Tuesday how their communities will transform in the coming years.
Great Places 2020 gives a neighborhood already working to better itself the leg up it needs.
“These are all neighborhoods that have been working over the last several years to organize themselves through quality of life plans and based on that, they came forward and said, we think we are uniquely prepared to really drill down and create this strong center for our community,” said Bill Taft, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation in Indianapolis.
A group of nearly 50 community civic leaders reviewed applications from ten neighborhoods and picked the areas of West Michigan and King, East Washington and Oxford, and 38th and Illinois.
Check out video updates on each area here.
“Over the last year, each of these three neighborhoods have worked with consultants as well as hundreds of neighborhood residents, churches, organizations and businesses to set out to create a very specific plan for how to create a strong neighborhood center.”
Those plans will be revealed Tuesday from 4-6 p.m. at James Whitcomb Riley School #43.
“It’s physical development of new buildings, attracting new businesses, creation of new parks and greenspace, job training for new residents, better quality schools, a wide range of things both on the physical and human development side of the agenda for each of these neighborhoods.”
“In the plan 2020 process a year ago, the city identified the need for mixed-use neighborhood villages as something that Indianapolis lacked. Each one of these plans for Great Places is actually creating a neighborhood village center for each one of those three neighborhoods that would be walkable, that people would want to live near, would want to spend time shopping in, to spend time recreating in.”
“Most neighborhoods had those at one time.
