Progress & Redevelopment Plan

NORTHWEST AREA:

PROGRESS & REDEVELOPMENT PLAN

City of Indianapolis - EPA Brownfield AREA WIDE PLANNING Project: Former Carrier Bryant Brownfield Site as a Community Asset to Revitalize Northwest Area Model and Measure. I. Introduction Evolution of a Solution Acknowledgements Northwest Area Biography EPA Area Wide Planning Process Outreach Plan Planting Seeds. II. Previous Planning Efforts Northwest Area Quality of Life Plan Indy FastTrack Report Indy Greenways Master Plan Groundwork Indianapolis: Feasibility Study and Launching Strategy United Northwest Neighborhood Plan NWA Safe Routes to School Plan Linking Regional Economic Clusters with Targeted Urban Places Development Implementation Plan for the NWA TIF District Indy Connect: Purple Line Greening the Crossroads: A Green Infrastructure Vision for Central Indiana Water Canal Development Guide: Burdsal Parkway to West 30th Street United Northwest Subarea Plan Opportunity Assessment. Riverside Subarea Plan III. Existing Conditions Methodology Neighborhood Description Human Health Analysis Environmental Evaluation: Water Health Environmental Evaluation: Land Health How Brownfield Redevelopment Works Catalyst Sites and Development Corridors

TABLE OF CONTENTS Our Vision & Potential. IV. Creating Community Vision Building Off the Northwest Area Quality of Life and United Northwest Neighborhood Plans Steering Committee Subject Matter Experts Consulting Support Phase I: Food Hub Phase II: Alternative Development Programs Long-Term Opportunities Near-Term Opportunities

Action. V. Implementation The Request for Proposal (RFP) Process Financial Resources Policy Recommendations Project Partners

Bibliography Appendix A Food Hub Concept

Evolution of a Solution

The Northwest Area (NWA) is a culturally rich but economically distressed coalition of neighborhoods located 2 miles northwest of Indianapolis' vibrant Downtown.

The NWA is bounded to the south by 16th Street beyond which is a major economic development project known as 16 Tech: a nascent biotechnology innovation district. I-65, a barrier to the east and north, isolates NWA from more prosperous areas of the City. To the northwest, is Marian University, a rapidly growing institution of higher education. A solution to NWA’s unemployment, food insecurity and vacancy rates, therefore, must be found within its boundaries.

This plan, created through the U.S. EPA Brownfield Program’s Area Wide Planning process, emerged as a vehicle to tap the opportunity which exists among the many Former Carrier-Bryant Site brownfield sites found in the NWA. Specifically, the former Carrier-Bryant site is a CSX Railroad Spur significant, near-term opportunity for brownfield redevelopment, primed to drive Former Sanitec Facility beneficial and transformative change in the Central Canal Northwest Area. The City of Indianapolis and its partners, recognize the potential for this 19- Fall Creek acre site to catalyze the revitalization of the surrounding community. White River

I. INTRODUCTION

Acknowledgements Steering Committee Members This project could not have been achieved and Planning Partners without the support of Northwest Area residents and the dedicated leadership provided by the • Bunge North America • Indiana University stakeholders, which included businesses, • Central Indiana Corporate Partnership/16 Tech - Fairbanks School of Public Health government, community-based organizations, nonprofits, and potential future partners. • Citizens Energy Group • Indiana University Health Through community engagement, including • City of Indianapolis and Marion County • Indy Chamber advisory committees and public meetings, this Plan enables NWA to identify reuse - City-County Council • Ivy Tech Hospitality Administration opportunities while meeting EPA’s - Department of Metropolitan Development • KERAMIDA Inc. Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Program Goals: · Brownfield Redevelopment Program • Keystone Enterprise Park Representatives • Protecting public health and the · Department of Real Estate Services • Kheprw Institute EcoCenter environment; · Division of Planning • Local Initiatives Support Corporation • Finding economically viable options; and - Department of Parks & Recreation • National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and • Reflecting the community’s vision for reuse. Conservation Assistance - Department of Public Works • Northwest Area Residents Project Coordinator: · Office of Sustainability KERAMIDA Inc. • Northwest Area Quality of Life Plan Corporate Headquarters - Department of Public Health - Food Access Committee 401 North College Avenue - Mayor’s Office Indianapolis, IN 46202 • Purdue Cooperative Extension Service 800.508.8034 - Soil & Water Conservation District - Marion County • Ebenezer Baptist Church For more information: - Hancock County • Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 Piers Kirby Brownfields Program • Riverside Civic League Senior Project Manager Brownfield Redevelopment Program • Flanner House of Indianapolis • Summit Construction Department of Metropolitan Development • Groundwork Indy • Tear Down the Walls Ministry 200 East Washington Street, Suite 2042 Indianapolis, IN 46204 • Holladay Properties • TWG Development 317.372.5131 • Indiana Cooperative Development Center • Urban Initiatives

This project was funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Northwest Area Biography Born of working-class entrepreneurs whose park use by residents throughout our city. names grace street signs throughout the Taggart’s actions established NWA’s Riverside neighborhood, North Indianapolis, as NWA Park which was posthumously dedicated in his was originally known, was stimulated by the name, and provided the groundwork for construction of the Central Canal of Indiana in George Kessler’s 1909 Park and Boulevard

Miles 021.25 .55s 1837 and the western terminus of the Belt Line System plan for Indianapolis. Neighborhood Orientation Railroad in 1873. Interstate Road Network Establishment of Flanner Guild, now known as Water Bodies The “City Beautiful” urban planning concept, Flanner House, provided Indy’s African- Downtown Mile Square introduced en masse in 1893, so inspired then American population a variety of social Northwest Area Neighbourhood Marion County City Mayor, Thomas Taggart, to purchase over services, including vocational education and 900 acres of land along the White River for other self-help programs. At a time when

1873: 1893: 1898: 1898: 1900’s: 1909: 1913: 1931: North “City Beautiful” Riverside Flanner Guild Created Riverside Kessler’s Great Flood of Indianapolis Taggart Memorial Dedication Indianapolis Concept Born, Public Park Amusement Park, Boulevard & at Riverside Park Platted Columbia Established for a Private, “Whites Park System Exposition, the Citizens of Only” Establishment Planned Chicago Indianapolis 1939–early 1960’s

African-American communities faced housing a coalition of neighborhoods in this region of NWA is home to a primarily impoverished and shortages due to a nationwide epidemic of Marion County form the now defunct United minority demographic living in a deteriorating housing discrimination, Flanner House Northwest Area Association in a effort to urban environment with little connectivity to negotiated with the City to acquire land and address local issues such as poverty, crime and amenities or access to local waterways. materials to establish a self-help home building city service deficiencies. project for NWA’s residents. These residences, Abandonment and eventual revitalization of the known as Flanner Homes, have molded the In 1970, construction of I-65 begins, and Carrier-Bryant site generates opportunity to community aesthetically and culturally. geographically divides the neighborhood and implement an updated economic and cultural causes significant economic and social identity for the entire Northwest Area The post-war industrial boom also leaves its disruption from which the area has never fully community. mark on the Northwest Area. In the late 1960’s recovered.

1950-1964: 1956: 1967: 1970: 2007: 2016: 330+ Flanner House Homes Built Bryant Opens Manufacturing & United Northwest I-65 Construction Begins Burdsal Parkway NWA Publishes Its “Progress & Research Facilities in Indianapolis Area Created Renovation Redevelopment Plan”

Area Wide Planning Community Endorsement Meaningful community involvement is integral Process to the planning process and as such, community Brownfield Area Wide Planning activities input has been sought and incorporated in each identified community priorities, policy and stage. This invaluable voice establishes the physical infrastructure needs, market feasibility highest and best use of each identified of reuse options, and environmental conditions to brownfield site, affects the potential reuse of inform the community’s vision for the existing infrastructure, determines the efficacy redevelopment of three high-priority catalyst of city development programs and how they brownfield sites: may be improved, and identifies the specific implementation steps and stakeholder • The former Carrier-Bryant site was chosen for responsibility. Support from the community its size (19 ac.), proximity to homes, was sought throughout the project to guide the contribution to blight, use for illicit activities, Project Team’s development of an initial vision threats to human health, magnitude of and then to detail specifics of the plan. This leveraged resources, and strong community inclusive planning process engaged a core of interest in site redevelopment. interested parties in NWA to operate in • The adjacent CSX railroad spur line joins with a conjunction with the City and its partners to single track rail corridor that transects the create, then to realize, the completed area-wide Northwest Area and parallels the Canal plan. between Burdsal Parkway and West 29th Street. This 1.5 mile segment of rail corridor has long been the target of redevelopment Stakeholder Collaboration plans spearheaded by the Parks Department Within a series of public meetings, steering committee meetings, and planning charrettes, for conversion to a multi-use trail and stakeholders were involved and engaged in the extension of the Central Canal Greenway. • The former Sanitec facility site (2.6 ac.), located planning effort. Input and support were along the east side of the CSX rail spur, solicited from specific sectors (residents, southeast of the former Carrier-Bryant site, business owners, property owners, developers, was operated as a medical waste processing realtors, etc.) regarding issues such as facility from 2009-2011. community priorities, vision, and understanding solutions for generating private investment in The strategies developed through this project NWA. During these gatherings, short-, will facilitate critical next steps to reduce health medium-, and long-term priorities are identified threats, crime, and blight, while increasing and refined, with a strong emphasis on realistic access to healthy local food and opportunities for and actionable goals/objectives that will employment.

produce trackable and measurable community Steering Committee Meeting #2 : April 8, 2015 March 9, 2015: Steering Committee Meeting #1, Kick-Off benefits. Meetings held in various locations Visioning Event #1 Share project goals and timeline, and prioritize within the neighborhood provided residents Committee vets options/scenarios site reuse options. access and opportunity to join the planning for public presentation and feedback. May 16, 2015: Public Meeting #1 (RCL Town Hall) conversation. Steering Committee Meeting #3 : June 17, 2015 Introduce project to public: share goals, Throughout the project, community meetings, Visioning Event #2 Receive critique and objectives and vision; gather input on project team meetings, and site tours have been feedback of options/ scenarios for public options/scenarios. held to receive resident feedback for presentation and feedback. June 25, 2015: Public Meeting #2 (Flanner House) incorporation into the planning process. Update public on project status and gather input Steering Committee Meeting #4 : July 29, 2015 Announce extension to consider on options/scenarios. Outreach Plan alternative re-use options. August 4, 2015: National Night Out Event/Tour Primary Goal: “Redevelop the former Carrier Bryant Brownfield site, in partnership with The Steering Committee Meeting #5 : October 14, 2015 Public Meeting #3 for Food Hub renderings City of Indianapolis, the newly formed Kick-off extension and broader scope; feedback. Tour Carrier Bryant Site.

Groundwork Indianapolis (GWIndy) and other discuss gentrification & site marketing October 28, 2015: Steering Committee Meeting #6/Tour community organizations, local businesses and Tour of Keystone Enterprise Park and meet with Northwest Area residents, into a financially Steering Committee Meeting #7 : November 4, 2015 KEP debrief; Subject matter experts from business owners. sustainable enterprise to address needs identified in the recently completed Quality of Indiana Cooperative Development and January 13, 2016: Steering Committee Meeting #8 Life plan including food access, health, RecycleForce; Discuss cooperative Subject matter expert from CICP/16 Tech; economic development, local employment, business and re-entry training models. Results of Health Impact Assessment; community engagement, and education.” Steering Committee Meeting #9: January 20, 2016 Discuss RFP process.

Subject matter expert from IEPZ; January 30, 2016: GWIndy Green Team Meeting #1 Capital absorption capacity; Introduction to Area Wide Planning project; Developer Panel. Brownfields 101; Environmental Justice;

GWIndy Green Team Meeting #2: February 6, 2016 Site Analysis and Scale; Planning Blocks

Select near-term site re-use options; February 24, 2016: Steering Committee Meeting #10 Discuss being city’s model for Speaker Recap & SWOT Activity vacant lot reuse and a destination. April 27, 2016: Steering Committee Meeting #11 Steering Committee Meeting #12: July 13, 2016 Draft Plan Page Turn Final Plan Page Turn

Public Meeting #4: August 18, 2016 August 18, 2016: Plan Published Final Plan Presented to Public

Northwest Area Quality of Life Plan Indy FastTrack Report Indy Greenways Master Plan Groundwork Indianapolis: Feasibility Study and Launching Strategy United Northwest Neighborhood Plan NWA Safe Routes to School Plan Linking Regional Economic Clusters with Targeted Urban Places Development Implementation Plan for the NWA TIF District Indy Connect: The Purple Line Greening the Crossroads Water Canal Development Guide: Burdsal Parkway to West 30th Street United Northwest Subarea Plan Riverside Subarea Plan

II. PREVIOUS PLANNING EFFORTS Northwest Area Northwest Area Quality of Life Plan Quality of Life Plan (2014) Quality of Life Plan Community Initiatives: Initiated, driven, and sustained by the community, this plan seeks to benefit the people who live, work, and worship in NWA. After nearly one year of community engagement with over 3,000 neighborhood residents, the Quality ADULT EDUCATION & Indy Fast Track (2014) of Life (QoL) plan outlines the needs of the community and potential avenues to improve SKILLS DEVELOPMENT the quality of life for residents. Indy Greenways ART, PARKS & NATURE P-12 EDUCATION Master Plan (2014) The QoL plan emphasizes the importance of economic development and food access relative to community building. Economic development COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOOD ACCESS strategies include reconstruction and activation Groundwork of abandoned commercial properties; attracting Indianapolis: new businesses to the community; and COMMUNITY ECONOMIC Feasibility Study and educating and advocating for effective usage of Launching Strategy Tax Increment Financing (TIF), a taxation (2014) program that attracts business and helps keep SAFETY& DEVELOPMENT property tax dollars within the TIF District for reinvestment into the community.

PEACEBUILDING Contribution to AWP This plan specifically suggests the creation of HOUSING STRATEGIES cooperative economic opportunities at the Carrier-Bryant brownfield site and lists possible uses based on the stated and inferred needs of YOUTH DEVELOPMENT the community. This sizable property offers promising uses that fulfill many community goals identified in the QoL plan. Developing these economic and entrepreneurial opportunities realize the social mission identified in this plan.

Indy FastTrack Indy Greenways Groundwork Indianapolis With a main focus on the reuse of four closed Master Plan Feasibility Study and Launching Strategy automotive assembly sites, the FastTrack report The Indianapolis Greenway System is an urban Groundwork USA is a national non-profit is a market-based plan to increase private network of multi-use trails throughout Marion supported by primary Federal partners EPA investment in the city. This plan identifies County. The Master Plan lays out 260 miles of Brownfields Program and the National Park urban agriculture as a key opportunity for future greenway development with an increased Service Rivers, Trails & Conservation adaptive re-use of vacant land. As demand for focus on the economic potential along and near Assistance Program. Their mission is to change local food and the advantage of close proximity pathways, that will enhance Indy’s already places and lives by working at the intersection to markets grows, urban agriculture is an world-class trail network. of community renewal and environmental exciting opportunity for brownfield restoration. This feasibility study investigates redevelopment. The FastTrack report cites a creation of a Groundwork Indianapolis Trust study from Iowa that concluded that restaurants Contribution to AWP (GWIndy) to reside in and focus on four key that buy food from local sources have an Proposed extension of the Central Canal issues: 1. lack of opportunities for young income multiplier of 1.54 compared to 1.2 for Towpath continues at 30th Street on the north people, 2. widespread vacant properties and other restaurants. side of NWA, extending 2.5 miles through the brownfields, 3. greenways and public parks heart of NWA, and connects with the revitalization, and 4. healthy communities. The downtown Cultural Trail. The extension Steering committee voted unanimously to Contribution to AWP creates a continuous greenway from downtown, launch GWIndy in November, 2014, which This analysis encourages the redevelopment of through NWA, up to Broad Ripple. Greenways joins to the network of over 20 other existing industrial sites for economic are excellent community assets as they increase Groundwork Trusts across the United States. development and job creation in Marion quality of life, community stability, and County. FastTrack specifically mentions the economic growth. For instance, the city already Contribution to AWP Carrier-Bryant brownfield and acknowledges boasts an 11.4% increase in property value urban agriculture as a method to increased food within a half mile of the Monon Trail since its Specific references to the Carrier-Bryant site access and economic development, a theme creation. and the AWP in this feasibility study and which is echoed in many of the other NWA- launching strategy name GWIndy as a vital specific plans. operative for AWP-identified projects in Similarly, property values have increased by $1 Northwest Area. The missions of GWIndy and billion for parcels within 500 feet of the trail, the AWP are complimentary, and the GW trusts businesses report more customers and higher across the United States have been extremely sales, and residents feel safer Downtown since successful using the talents of its citizens to construction of the 8-mile Cultural Trail, reclaim, enhance, develop, and maintain urban according to a survey conducted by Indiana green space and reuse brownfields while raising University Public Policy Institute. awareness and appreciation of such spaces.

United Northwest United Northwest Neighborhood Plan Neighborhood Plan (2008) Neighborhood Plan Areas of Opportunity: This plan recommends coordination of resources to achieve neighborhood revitalization and development goals. The planning committee solicited public input in as Northwest Area Safe many forums as possible, taking several years Routes to School Plan to complete, and identified key areas of ECONOMIC (2015) opportunity for the UNWA neighborhood: crime and neighborhood safety; neighborhood beautification; employment, education, and NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT Linking Regional jobs; housing; recreational development; Economic Clusters economic development; and family, health, and BEAUTIFICATION with Targeted Urban social services. These findings are similar to FAMILY Places (2014) those of the more recent Quality of Life plan HEALTH with the exception of food access. A possible explanation for this is the increasing importance EMPLOYMENT of food access issues as researchers improve & SOCIAL Development their understanding of the economic, social, and Implementation Plan SERVICES health costs of lack of access to fresh, nutritious EDUCATION for the UNWA TIF foods. District (2009)

Contribution to AWP JOBS & HOUSING The development goals and areas of opportunity in this neighborhood plan align RECREATIONAL closely with those identified in the 2014 Quality DEVELOPMENT of Life plan, which indicates independent verification of some key community needs addressed in this AWP.

Northwest Area Safe Linking Regional Development Routes to School Plan Economic Clusters with Implementation Plan for With overarching themes in line with the QoL Targeted Urban Places the UNWA TIF District Plan, this Safe Routes to School Plan is built using the the federal methodology: “The 5 E’s This program aimed to identify local economic Similar to findings in this Area Wide Plan, the of Safe Routes to School Program: Engineering, cluster growth trends with the most potential to TIF Implementation Plan pinpoints Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, and support “economic growth, workforce neighborhood growth impediments, such as Evaluation.” opportunity, and urban redevelopment,” then public transportation and education needs of using that information to guide decision-making NWA’s resident workforce; and opportunities The primary of goals of the plan are to increase processes regarding industrial district type and to capitalize on existing unique business assets the number people walking and biking to school location selection. Research indicated that like Bar-B-Q Heaven and the Central Canal in safely; and identify and map safe routes in clusters in Food Manufacturing and Distribution creating a sense of place and community that is Northwest Area and prepare a phased plan for and Local Business-to-Business (B2B) vital to successful urban revitalization. The TIF safety upgrades and construction of enterprises currently have strong, predicable Implementation Plan then suggests how TIF infrastructure improvements to proposed routes. growth paths. funds may be employed to spur long-term revitalization along the MLK and Canal

The plan reports that students cite “Dogs,” corridors. “Strangers/Bad People,” “Cars/Dangerous Contribution to AWP Street Crossings,” and “Infrastructure” as the The Food and Local B2B clusters often use Contribution to AWP most frequent impediments to biking or walking urban infill lands for development while Elements of the Implementation Plan, such as to school in their neighborhood. Making Safe providing equitable and accessible job infrastructure updates and selected Phase I Routes in the Northwest Area includes opportunities for all citizens. These cluster- assessments, are being realized. Dovetailing implementation of safety patrols, monitoring, types may be an ideal fit for NWA. group travel, and physical Improvements. the TIF initiatives with AWP goals enables community economic and social goals. Contribution to AWP Route components and accompanying infrastructure improvements border the Carrier Bryant site on 22nd, 23rd, and Sugar Grove Streets; and also along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street adjacent to sites of interest identified by the implementation of an FY13 US EPA Community-Wide Brownfield Assessment Grant-funded project focused on the Northwest Area.

Indy Connect: The Indy Connect: Purple Line Greening the Crossroads Purple Line (2015) Included in the Indy Connect Transit Vision A Green Infrastructure Vision for Central Indiana Plan, the Purple Line maps a bus rapid transit The City of Indianapolis has received technical route from Lawrence, west across 38th Street to assistance from the National Park Service, Greening the Eagle Creek Parkway. Established in phases, including assistance to Central Indiana’s Crossroads (2010) the Purple Route’s Phase 2 is the route west of Greening the Crossroads initiative which is Meridian Street. coordinated by the Central Indiana Land Trust.

Water Canal Contribution to AWP Development Guide: Contribution to AWP Burdsal Parkway to Phase 2 includes an option to either continue This program seeks to conserve and restore a West 30th Street (2006) service across 38th Street or provide service on connected system of natural areas while 29th and 30th Street through NWA. Both th th promoting growing vibrant communities in options are still being investigated. The 29 /30 route will increase connectivity, providing central Indiana, including targeted land along United Northwest NWA residents greater access to the rest of the waterways in NWA. The National Parks Subarea Plan (1982) city, and encouraging Indy residents to enjoy Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation NWA’s assets. Assistance (RTCA) Program is currently working with the Central Indiana Land Trust

and other local stakeholders to complete three Riverside Greening the Crossroads pilot projects. Subarea Plan (1980)

Water Canal Martin Luther King, Jr. Riverside Subarea Plan Development Guide: Gateway and Streetscape The Riverside Subarea Plan also outlines virtually all of the same neighborhood th Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Burdsal Parkway to West 30 Street demographics, zoning designations, and plan This plan documents the current state of the The Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Gateway boundaries as this AWP. The Riverside plan Central Canal between Burdsal Parkway on the and Streetscape is an outcome of the continues by outlining many of the same social south, and 30th Street on the north, and provides Development Implementation Plan for the and political concerns, neighborhood attributes, a blueprint for the development of the canal as United Northwest Redevelopment Area and overarching goals that AWP stakeholders a greenway. This NWA community asset is in (UNWA) TIF District. The Development are voicing today. Implementation Plan focused on generating the near vicinity of the AWP catalyst sites. short term, implementable development

opportunities. For all the similarities in historic and present- Contribution to AWP day neighborhood issues, the Riverside Subarea http://www.storrowkinsella.com/martin-luther-king- Plan surely helped to achieve at least two Greenway development along the central canal jr-streetscape-neighborhood-revitalization-plan/ important community service objectives: in NWA is relevant as greenways draw people to neighborhoods and increase foot and bike establishment of a community primary health Contribution to AWP traffic to local businesses. care center and a public library facility. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Although the original intent was to implement a

Gateway and Streetscape incorporated "Place" library branch in School #44, the Indianapolis United Northwest into its design. An extensive community Public Library currently has a branch located at Subarea Plan development process informed the design of Flanner House, which is located just a few identity elements to feature both Dr. Martin blocks down Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Perhaps considered outdated based on its year Luther King, Jr. the corridor's namesake, and from the Eskenazi Health Center Blackburn of publication, this plan so closely mirrors the local African-American heroes that have primary care facility. findings of more recent neighborhood plans that contributed to the life of the neighborhood and it merits recognition. This subarea plan focuses city. In addition to banners and storyboards Contribution to AWP on housing, transportation, commercial and telling those stories, an iconic symbol derived economic development, parks and recreation, from the initials MLK was developed using Like other plans reviewed herein, this plan community services and facilities, public safety, traditional Kente Cloth-like patterns. That further emphasizes that even after more than education, and community organization. symbol is used in distinctive crosswalk patterns thirty years of planning and discussion, the need to make major improvements in NWA remains. at key intersections, and on a pair of totem-like

Contribution to AWP sculptures that bracket the street at its north gateway at 30th Street. Development for the The striking resemblance this plan has to the former Carrier Bryant site and others along the neighborhood and Quality of Life plans Montcalm Corridor can incorporate aesthetic published approximately three decades later elements of this plan. highlights the need to make substantial investments in NWA.

Methodology Neighborhood Description Human Health Analysis Environmental Evaluation: Water Health Environmental Evaluation: Land Health How Brownfield Redevelopment Works Catalyst Sites and Development Corridors

III. EXISTING CONDITIONS Methodology This Plan follows a common method of Indy Indicators demographic assessment, which delineates An initiative sponsored by MCPHD and Indiana population classifications by Census Block University Purdue University Indianapolis Groups. The United States Census Bureau (IUPUI), Indy Indicators measures quality of life defines Block Groups as statistical divisions of in central Indiana by comparing distinct data from census tracts that consists of 600-3,000 people, Indianapolis and other cities and counties which were commonly defined with the help of throughout central Indiana to peer locations local participants during the Bureau's Participant across the Midwest. In an effort to identify Statistical Areas Program. The statistics in this community strengths and weaknesses regarding section have been collected from census tracts quality of life, Indy Indicators identifies and selected by the Marion County Public Health measures variables in the following key indicator Department (MCPHD), then assembled in the categories: Northwest Area Baseline Health Assessment report (June, 2015) for use in this AWP. The map • Demographics below was adapted from the census tracts • Education included by the MCPHD in their report. • Economy Census Block Groups Reviewed for Demographic Assessment • Government & Safety Census Tracts AWP Boundary • Public Health • Transportation 3503 3503 3905 • Arts & Culture • Global Connections 3905 3510 • Philanthropy

3512 • Environment 3515 3515 3501 3512 Compared to peer cities in the Midwest 3536 3536 3516 Indianapolis/Marion County generally ranks middle of the pack, with some exceptions in 3533 outlier categories including food security, 3535 cigarette use, illicit drug use, and homicide. The following is a review of how NWA compares to Marion County by referencing Indy Indicators’ Image adapted from MCPHD Report  key categories and MCPHD’s 2015 report data.

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Demographic NWA is a predominately African American 63% 18-64 13% community with a strong available workforce. 65+ Most of the population is of working age and has at least a high school diploma. Although nearly one quarter of the population did not finish high 24% school, these men and women are perfect Under 18 candidates for workforce development and vocational skill acquisition programs to develop NWA into a rich labor shed.

(MCPHD)

age group Residents by Age

male female residents residents

(MCPHD)

82% 13% 3% 2%

African Caucasian Hispanic Other American

(MCPHD) Residents by Ethnicity

23 Education and Economics

no HS diploma It should also be noted that simply creating bachelor degree opportunity for low-income homeownership is (or higher) 22% not enough to create stable neighborhoods and 11% HS diploma supply social benefits. (Shlay) Working with associate degree 37% community partners to establish educational 7% some college infrastructure to guide NWA residents through 24% the homeownership process and informing them about the associated financial demands creates Education a sustainable method of increasing homeownership as a part of a long-term goal of community strength.

Education, employment, and home-ownership Annual Household Income appear to be related demographic issues. The Marion County Public Health Department reports $25,000-$75,000 that 59% of NWA residents ended their education journey either with a high school diploma or did 27% not finish high school; 53% of NWA households earn less than $25,000 per year; and 40% of over $75,000 20% households are rented spaces (MCPHD). It is generally conceived that homeownership directly less than correlates to improved community conditions, but $25,000 53% new research is indicating that the homeownership-to-community improvement link in low-income neighborhoods is actually unproven (Shlay). Global Connections It is, however, undisputed that homeownership for Although NWA may not be home to large low-income parents increases a child’s ability to immigrant communities or multi-national thrive in adulthood with “less idleness, higher corporations, other global connections are a wages and lower levels of welfare receipt.” within reach through nearby access to Marian (Shlay) This scenario supports long-term NWA College, IUPUI, the International Motor goals by contributing to community stability. Speedway (IMS), and the emerging 16 Tech Innovation Community.

objectives are to eliminate slums and blight, prevent deterioration of existing structures, Unemployment conserve and expand affordable housing, restore and preserve properties of historical or

Rates NWA 25-35% architectural interest, create jobs, recruit and support small businesses, improve and expand vital social services, engage in long - term community planning and meet other local development needs” (Polis Center).

Marion County County Marion These organizations enable community members to cohesively drive the future of their 11% neighborhoods and leverage funds for (MCPHD) community-supported initiatives. NWA is full of strong, smart, passionate community members Employment that aim to drive the neighborhood in a positive All of these interrelated issues are compounded direction. However, NWA presently lacks this when employment is difficult obtain. Within type of leadership and capital adsorption capacity NWA census tracts, the unemployment rate is that a CDC can offer. 2-3 times higher than the Marion County average (MCPHD) which contributes to this negative feedback loop affecting quality of life. Education

Community Development Employment Corporation (CDC) Quality of Life Opportunities The United Northwest Area neighborhood was officially designated in the late-1960s, and soon after created the recently defunct United High Impact Issues Northwest Area Community Development to Quality of Life Corporation (UNWA CDC). CDCs are “nonprofit community-based organizations Community Income formed by residents, small business owners, Stability faith congregations and other local stakeholders to revitalize low and/or moderate income communities through initiatives whose Housing

1 in 5 county residents Public Health Analysis County Public Health Department reports that are diagnosed with households in NWA are three times more likely depression In 2012, a 5,000 household telephone survey of to have a female head of household, 60% more Marion County residents was conducted in an likely to have children as members and twice as effort to assess county wellness by asking likely to have a senior member (MCPHD). 1 in 7 county residents citizens about their access to healthcare, health Households has diabetes habits, chronic disease, and neighborhood 68% by Type socio-economic factors. In this survey NWA 27% 1 in 10 county results have generally reported in parallel to the with children residents has rest of the county; however, economic factors 19% hypertension in the neighborhood have created some health- female head related concerns that are distinctive to NWA of household (MCPHD). 1 in 5 NWA children (MCPHD) has asthma (MCPHD) Government & Safety 16% 25% Single-Parent Homes married with seniors It is not uncommon for occurrences of illegal Health Care 42% of NWA residents activity and violence to increase in urban areas smoke cigarettes that experience high unemployment and high With cost as a barrier to healthcare, only about housing vacancy issues. NWA is no exception half of NWA residents reported having health 50% of NWA students to this phenomenon, and reports homicide and insurance (MCPHD). However, with dramatic are above normal non-fatal shooting emergency calls 7-8 times changes in national healthcare policy since the weight-for-height higher than the county average. Interview data 2012 survey, this statistic should be improved. reports that NWA residents are far less likely 20% of NWA students than other county residents to say they “feel Food Security safe” in their neighborhood, meanwhile local Marion County Public Health Department are at-risk to be SNAP & Food Pantry Use overweight civic leaders and the Indianapolis Metropolitan defines “Food Security” as the ability to afford Police Department are working to “improve a enough food for a household in any given Approximately 1 in 4 NWA residents whole spectrum of indicators, including drug month. Approximately, 75% of county use SNAP and/or Food Pantries to 30% of NWA students help feed their families overdose and suicide calls, fire calls, as well as residents indicate that they are “always” able to are overweight enhanced anti-violence interventions” afford enough food for their families, but only (MCPHD). 56% of NWA residents were able to report the NWA infant mortality same. In an effort to fill the financial gap many is 49% higher than the Family Dynamics NWA residents use SNAP (23%) and WIC whole of Marion Unlike other neighborhoods in the downtown (7.5%) benefits, and approximately 26% NWA County area that may be uniquely divided by age, residents visit food pantries to feed their - MCPHD NWA is a neighborhood of families whose age families (MCPDH). spans the from children to seniors. Marion

26 Food Desert One of the most crucial amenities for any community is food access. The last modest food vendor in NWA, Double 8 Foods, closed Supermarkets its doors in August, 2015. Although some gas Half Mile station-style convenience stores and a few One Mile restaurants exist, there is no place for NWA residents to purchase reasonably priced, nutritious, whole foods. Virtually all of NWA is now a food desert, defined by USDA as a low-income urban census tracts more than ½ mile from access to fresh, healthy, and

affordable food via supermarkets and grocery ! stores. “The lack of access contributes to a poor Safeway diet and can lead to higher levels of obesity and

! other diet-related diseases, such as diabetes and Lee Market ! heart disease” (USDA). Goose

! Kroger

! Kroger ! Marsh

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27 Note: Transportation & Connectivity elements inhibit residents from leaving the Connectivity, or the ability to easily move neighborhood, the barriers also keep merchants, throughout the city, is a key component to consumers, and other visitors out of NWA. successful neighborhood revitalization. As with any neighborhood, NWA has unique natural In 2012, the City and City-County barriers that impede the ability to travel to, from Council approved a Complete Streets Ordinance, and through the community. NWA’s borders meant to improve the livability of Indianapolis naturally occur at the White River, Interstate by enabling users of all ages and abilities to 65, and 16th Street - as heavy automobile traffic safely move throughout the city. “Complete prevents most pedestrians and cyclists from Streets” are streets designed and operated to navigating this thoroughfare. As all of these enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and public transportation users. Since 2013, Indy has been installing and updating sidewalks, trails, paths, Mass Transit bike lanes, intersections and transit stops across Bus Route 5 Quarter Mile the city (DPW). As 25% of NWA households Bus Route 30 Half Mile 25% Bus Route 25 Carrier Bryant Site do not have access to an automobile, ensuring Bus Route 15 alternative transportation options is crucial Bus Route 34 (MCPHD). The Complete Streets Ordinance Proposed BRT Stops has helped catalyze infrastructure Proposed BRT Route

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Environmental Evaluation: Combined Sewer Overflows During heavy rainfall or snow melt events CSOs Water Health move the excess runoff water that the City’s White River, Fall Creek, and Central Canal all sewer system cannot manage during the event, pass through NWA boundaries. These directing the runoff into nearby natural water waterways should be considered neighborhood sources, such as streams and rivers. During the amenities, but their beneficent status is overflow process raw sewage is also emitted with complicated by recent discovery of a the rain/snow runoff, which contaminates local contaminated groundwater plume, municipal waterways. Catalyzed by EPA mandate, DPW wellfield protection areas that cover most of and CEG have started the DigIndy project, in NWA, and combined sewer overflows (CSO). which a 27-mile network of 18’ diameter pipe All of these factors can change NWA waterways that will capture up to 97% of the sewage from from public amenities into public health hazards. entering city waterways (CEG). This will create Access to these waterways and awareness of a healthier environment for plant and animal compromised water quality is further hampered communities, as well as provide a beautiful, by extreme overgrowth of invasive plant species. safe amenity for human residents to enjoy.

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EPA National Priority Listing Wellfield Protection Areas In April 2016, EPA proposed the “Riverside Wellfield protection areas aim to preserve drinking water supplies from contamination Ground Water Contamination site” be added to the National Priorities List (NPL), a group of when the water is derived from wells fed by sites identified for their ‘known or threatened natural underground aquifers. Pollutants may releases of hazardous substances, pollutants or be released at the soil surface or underground contaminants.’ In this case, legacy sources in and leach through the dirt into the aquifer and around NWA, long out of use, may have (CEG). contributed to a contaminated groundwater plume. While the public water utility operates The W-1 zone is the area in which it may take a high-capacity water supply wells located in pollutant only one year to reach the aquifer and nearby municipal well fields, finished (potable) contaminate the water supply. The W-5 zone is water quality monitoring data demonstrates that the area in which it may take a pollutant up to this plume does not pose a risk to human health five years to reach the aquifer and contaminate by way of exposure through ingesting treated the water supply. drinking water extracted from these wells. As a precautionary measure, wells nearest the In addition to informing residents living within plume with raw water levels of contaminants Wellfield Protection Areas of the importance of Wellfield Protection Zones above those allowed for finished water have their role in maintaining a clean water supply, W-1: 1-Year Protection Area been abandoned, or are being taken off-line the practices of certain types of businesses temporarily to install an aeration treatment W-5: 5-Year Protection Area including commercial printing, fuel stations, Carrier Bryant Site N WHITE RIVER PKWY EDR

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Impacts of Illegal Trash Dumping dumping creates dumping begets safety concerns for decreases more dumping curious children Housing Units quality of life

Illegal Trash Dumping In 2014, 642 residences and 114 vacant lots were reported to the MCPHD for the presence of illegal dumping. The standing trash dumping dumping promotes insect and encourages insect and rodent infestations, compromises dumping depreciates environmental rodent infestations unknown threatens the health of curious children, and property values and health chemicals can diminishes community compromises environmental health. leach into soils pride and waterways

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How Brownfield Redevelopment Works The United States Environmental Protection they are already served by buildings, roads, Agency defines brownfields as “a property, the sidewalks, water and sewer services, storm expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which water infrastructure, and utility lines. By may be complicated by the presence or reusing existing infrastructure, both the City potential presence of a hazardous substance, and the developer benefit because tax dollars pollutant, or contaminant.” (EPA) If a property and private funds normally spent on new is found to have contamination, it must be infrastructure can be focused on redevelopment remediated and the type of redevelopment and reuse of the site itself. Also, by encouraging options available may be restricted. compact redevelopment, a larger number of buildings and residents can be served by the Because most brownfields within NWA are same amount of infrastructure. This reduces abandoned or underutilized sites, their cleanup capital and maintenance costs while providing and reuse epitomizes sustainable residents with multiple economic, mobility, and redevelopment. Furthermore, because these commercial benefits. In fact, an important but sites are located within existing urban areas, underutilized neighborhood thoroughfare, Burdsal Parkway, is part of George Kessler’s historic Parks and Boulevards System. Encouraging brownfield redevelopment in the area will improve utilization of this notable neighborhood amenity.

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Challenge: Brownfields Opportunity: Brownfields Due to actual or perceived contamination and Brownfield redevelopment within NWA will Site control is key to advancing brownfield costs associated with assessment and trigger reinvestment in this disadvantaged redevelopment. The City of Indianapolis remediation, investors are reluctant to develop neighborhood, increase property values for both currently owns 83 parcels within NWA worth a brownfields. This explains why so many sites in the sites and surrounding properties, and lead to minimum combined value of over $350,000. NWA are vacant or underutilized, reducing an expanded tax base. Increased housing and Some of these parcels may be brownfields. The property values and development potential, retail options in the neighborhood are expected market value of the City-owned Carrier Bryant leading to further disinvestment in the area. to improve quality of life and attract additional site will be determined prior to the issuance of With little incentive for economic investment service and retail development, further an RFP and will be based on two professional and redevelopment, residents suffer improving the tax base. Increased numbers of appraisals of the site. Further, RenewIndy owns deteriorating neighborhoods, lack of retail and retail shops and service providers are expected 231 residential parcels in NWA totaling 24.15 employment options, and blight. A 2004 to result in improved access to diverse acres, worth an estimated $544,000. brownfield survey, 2010 city-wide brownfield employment opportunities. inventory, and a recent review have identifieded a total of 46 known or potential brownfields inn the project area, totaling 145 acres – 8.25% ooff the total land area. Many of these sites are located directly adjacent to residential housing,ng, parks, schools, and waterways. This poses a multitude of health and safety risks, not onlyy from environmental contamination but from the dangerous conditions of on-site buildings. Additionally, many of these structures have been a haven for illicit activities, destabilizing the neighborhood and putting residents at risk. A number of large brownfields are located along the Central Canal, hindering the extension of the Canal Greenway through NWA along the unused rail line and restricting community access to the waterway.

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37 38 • Building Off the Northwest Area Quality of Life and United Northwest Neighborhood Plans • Steering Committee • Subject Matter Experts • Consulting Support • Phase I: Food Hub • Phase II: Alternative Development Programs • Long-Term Opportunities • Near-Term Opportunities

IV. CREATING COMMUNITY VISION 39 Building Off the Connecting ‘Needs’ to ‘Goals’ The Area Wide Planning process considered its Northwest Area ability to accomplish the following goals set for Quality of Life and addressing two particular areas of need: United Northwest Area “Goals” Neighborhood Plans Economic Development Goals: The Area Wide Plan has evolved primarily • Creation and attraction of locally owned from these two plans, which call for businesses and support for entrepreneurs; coordination of resources to benefit the people • Reconstruction and activation of abandoned who live, work, and worship in NWA. The commercial properties; Quality of Life (QoL) plan goes further to outline NWA community needs and potential • Home repair for seniors, disabled, and low avenues to improve residents’ quality of life. income home owners; • Development at the scale needed to create “Needs” housing demand; and, The QoL plan emphasizes the importance of • Creation of a comprehensive housing addressing community needs categorized as: strategy. • Adult Education and Skills Development Food Access Goals: • Arts, Parks and Nature • Increase overall food access, as well as • Community Connections increase access to fresh produce and • Community Safety and Peacebuilding healthier food options; • Economic Development • Increase knowledge about the food cycle, • Food Access including growing, preserving, cooking and • Housing Strategies eating; and, • P - 12 Education • Food production and activities as an • Youth Development economic opportunity. The size and location of the former Carrier- The environmental status of the former Carrier Bryant site is explicitly recognized in the QoL Bryant site was unknown at the beginning of as an opportunity to direct its reuse toward the AWP process, so the planning for achieving goals for economic development and redevelopment options centered on achieving improving food access. This opportunity to the economic development goals of commercial address NWA’s needs formed the geographic reuse instead of goals related to housing. At the focus of the AWP. time this plan was published, housing plans for Riverside and the NWQoL were underway.

Connecting Goals to Vision Connecting Vision to Mission Connecting Mission to Action Creating an inventory of needs, setting goals Drawn from the neighborhood’s own vision for The mission of the AWP planning process and sharing a vision of the desired outcome of their brighter future, the following mission was was given wings by the actions captured in required actions unites a community in a very articulated by the Area Wide Planning the graphic below and inspired by lines powerful way, enabling them to plan stakeholders in its earliest days. excerpted from the QoL: collaboratively for a future that resonates with “It all started with a little green sticker by the each of its Stakeholders. “Mission” river when we simply asked our community to “Create a Plan to redevelop the former Carrier declare, ‘I want ______in my “Vision” Bryant Brownfield site, in partnership with the neighborhood.’ Fill in the blank at will.” “By nurturing relationships between our City of Indianapolis, the newly formed neighbors, local businesses, and other Groundwork Indianapolis Trust (GWIndy) and “Action” community stakeholders in the public and other community organizations, local businesses Phase I: The initial phase of the planning private sectors, we envision our community and Northwest Area residents, into a financially process focused on a common theme among bursting with vibrant residents, quality schools, sustainable enterprise which will address needs the Actions the neighborhood desired and lively businesses, and service organizations identified in the recently completed Quality of explored reuse options and benefits related to assisting our residents in need. We envision a Life plan including food access, health, creation of a Food Hub. more connected place that breathes life into all economic development, local employment, Phase II: The AWP focus later shifted to reuse those that live work and worship in the community engagement, and education.” Northwest Area because we have built strong options and strategies that had a larger connections between the residents and potential for job creation. stakeholders to create a renewed sense of community.”

The AWP process honored this vision in its approach: with a diverse composition of Steering Committee members, with authentic connections to the community, with flexibility when priorities shifted or new knowledge was gained, and with the breadth of subject matter experts providing specialized knowledge upon demand.

Steering Committee City of Indianapolis, DMD Brownfield Redevelopment

(Piers Kirby, Senior Project Manager P: 317.327.5845) Governing Structure Indianapolis’ Brownfield Redevelopment The governing structure, or steering committee, Program (BRP), administered through the for this Plan was borne out of the 1100 Department of Metropolitan Development’s Committee, which was convened by the (DMD’s) Redevelopment Division, works Indianapolis Brownfield Redevelopment diligently to identify, assess, cleanup, and Program when the Riverside Civic League redevelop contaminated sites across the city. neighborhood association approached the City The BRP was the Awardee of the EPA grant with its concerns about the disrepair of and that funded this body of planning work. illicit activity occurring at the abandoned Carrier Bryant site (and aptly named from its 1100 West 21st Street address). The Steering USEPA Region V: Brownfields & Committee is comprised of a diverse group of NPL Reuse Section neighborhood, business, technical, and political (Kyle Rogers P: 312.886.1995) Mr. Rogers participation in the planning stakeholders with interests in the projects in process highlighted the need for local capacity NWA and who have committed resources to building alongside brownfield reuse planning. coordinate them. The Area Wide Plan Steering The BRP is grateful for his support for Committee members and their affiliations are extending the planning process so that a more listed. Additional members were added when diverse palette of reuse options with more job the project scope was extended. Steering creation potential could be considered. Committee members who participated in the first phase of planning are denoted with ‘Phase I’. Steering Committee members who National Park Service(NPS) participated in the second phase of planning are (Rory Robinson P: 330.657.2951) denoted with ‘Phase II’. Those who served both Mr. Robinson’s experience with the NPS Rivers phases are denoted with ‘Phase I & II’. Trails and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) program was relied upon by the AWP Steering The Indianapolis Brownfield Redevelopment Committee for insight on recreational reuse Program leads this planning effort and scenarios. Rory encouraged open discussion coordinates this outreach process enabling among the group about difficult topics such as engaged organizations to adequately and gentrification and offered ways to proactively effectively prioritize site cleanup and reuse, identify and address this concern. He also related infrastructure improvements, and other provided guidance on implementing an revitalization needs. effective SWOT analysis.

Riverside Civic League Flanner House of Indianapolis Summit Construction (Peggy Gamlin, President, P: 317.600.0289) (Brandon Cosby, P: 317.925.4231) (Mike Martin, P: 317.634.6112) RCL is a neighborhood organization Flanner House is a multi-service center that Mike is the CEO of Summit Construction Co., representing the portion of NWA bounded by provides assistance and guidance to individuals Inc., a full service construction company West 30th Street, Fall Creek and Stadium Drive, and families who are moving along the providing project programming, project the Central Canal, and White River Parkway. economic continuum toward self sufficiency. management, scheduling, estimating, RCL has been involved in planning efforts Flanner House has demonstrated its construction management, general construction through the 1100 Committee and continues to commitment to the provision of human services and design-build services. Since 1983, Summit be engaged throughout the life of the project. by planning and implementing a variety of is located in Northwest Area, along Burdsal The organization has provided meeting space employment training, social services, economic Parkway, just north of the planning area. Mike and assistance with community outreach for this development, housing development, hosted the AWP Steering Committee meetings planning project. Peggy Gamlin, President of recreational programs, and health programs. and also serves as Chairman of the GWIndy RCL is a compelling advocate for the welfare Flanner House has been committed to assisting Board. (Phase I and II) of the neighborhood she represents and held an the City throughout grant implementation. active role in guiding the planning process. (Phase I and II) City of Indianapolis, Division (Phase I and II) of Economic Incentives Tear Down the Walls Ministry (Ryan Hunt, P: 317.327.5155) NWA Quality of Life Plan: (Brian Walls, P: 317.457.8974) As part of the City’s economic development Food Access Committee Chair Located in the heart of Indianapolis in the Near team, the Incentives Division assists businesses, (Carina McDowell, P: 317.440.3123) North West side, Tear Down The Walls developers and community organizations Carina is a 35 year resident of the Riverside Ministries is a Christian Community seeking to improve the City through the Neighborhood and is a lifelong gardener. She Development 501(c)(3) non-profit organization implementation of commercial, industrial and became concerned with food access and related that reaches out to those in need. Serving under retail development projects that promote job issues years ago when she saw grocery and resourced neighborhoods, the homeless creation and retention, revitalize neighborhoods corner stores closing. Carina serves the community and at-risk urban youth by and grow the tax base. (Phase I and II) Northwest Area Quality of Life Plan Action providing practical help, encouragement and friendship to those living in the worst of Team as the Food Access Committee Chair, NWA Resident circumstances. The organization trains students tasked with bringing real whole foods back into Janice Lindsay, a homeowner living very near to be involved in their communities by serving the NWA, rebuilding its food shed and other the former Carrier Bryant site, is inspired by the in some of the poorest and highest violent crime concerns facing her community, such as resilient and hard-working residents who have areas practicing CCD transforming abandoned employment, youth and crime. Carina is also characterized the Riverside neighborhood buildings and lots into beautiful and useful the Executive Director of Fall Creek Gardens. throughout its history. She is credited with areas for the community. (Phase I and II) (Phase I and II) bringing the blighted site to the attention of RCL which then began soliciting the City’s support for its redevelopment. (Phase II)

Steering Committee Bunge North America Local Initiatives Support Members (Russell Brann, P: 317.266.0927) Corporation (LISC) Russell Brann is the Facility Manager of the (Tedd Grain, P: 317.454.8486) Bunge North America Oilseed Division, with LISC works with local nonprofit community active elevators located near NWA’s catalyst development organizations to help transform area, adjacent to the South of the Sanitec site. distressed urban neighborhoods into healthy Bunge is a valued member of the NWA communities. LISC has been involved in community and hires neighborhood residents ongoing Quality of Life planning efforts and and sponsors various Riverside Civic League’s continues to build upon their previous NWA neighborhood celebrations. (Phase II) investments, including neighborhood capacity building, economic development, housing City of Indianapolis revitalization, and job development. (Phase I) Mayor’s Office The Deputy Mayor of Neighborhoods, Olgen Indianapolis Marion County Williams, focused on strengthening City-County Council neighborhoods and keeping them safe through (Vop Osili, P: 317.332.0877) faith-based initiatives. Previously, he served as Councillor Vop Osili represents the downtown Director of the Christamore House, a and near-downtown district of the city, District community center in the settlement house 11, which is within Marion County’s Center tradition on the city's west side for nearly 12 Township and includes all of the Northwest years. Reverend Williams co-chaired the Area. Councillor Osili advocates for working GWIndy feasibility study, and supported its families and the return of ex-offenders to the launch in November 2015. (Phase I and II) workforce and has championed the creation of microloan programs for small businesses in targeted economic areas around Indianapolis’ NWA Resident TIF districts. (Phase I and II) Sam Griffin, a 48-year NWA resident, is a Project Management Professional with a B.S. in Engineering from Purdue. Sam worked Kheprw Institute EcoCenter with the Grindery and the Economic (Imhotep Adisa, P: 317.329.4803) Development Committee of the NWA QoL Imhotep Adisa is the Executive Director of the while serving as Director of Membership for KI EcoCenter, a local organization with a focus the Central Indiana Chapter of the Project on youth development, that addresses social and Management Institute. (Phase II) environmental issues through innovative programming such as urban agriculture science lab, aquaponics, composting, and social entrepreneurship. (Phase I and II)

Citizens Energy Group Indiana University Groundwork Indy Recently retired, Jan Diggins served as Richard M. Fairbanks (Phyllis Boyd, P: 317.737.2810) Manager for Community Redevelopment at School of Public Health Following a parallel effort to add place-based Citizens Energy Group (CEG). She oversaw (Cynthia Stone, P: 317.278.0761) and locally lead capacity to the NWA, neighborhood revitalization through low Dr. Stone is an Associate Professor at the IU particularly around brownfield reuse for interest loan funds and corporate volunteerism. Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, community benefit, GWIndy was launched. Jan contributed insight on the plans and and an adjunct for the IU School of Nursing. Phyllis Boyd, Executive Director, leads restrictions related to the CEG-owned Central She is the MPH program director for the GWIndy in its mission to bring about the Canal within NWA. (Phase I and II) Department of Health Policy and Management sustained regeneration, improvement and and teaches their Health Impact Assessment management of the physical environment by Indiana University Health graduate course. Her work focuses on developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and (Kaliah Ligon, P: 317.962.6128) community health assessment for improvement organizations to promote environmental, Located in downtown Indianapolis, IU Health is planning or accreditation. Dr. Stone is also a economic and social well-being. GWIndy comprised of Methodist Hospital and Indiana member of the Food Access Committee for the engages in community-based strategies for University Hospital. IU Health’s Community Northwest Area Quality of Life plan and a revitalizing neighborhoods. (Phase II) Outreach and Engagement Team works with member of the Indy Food Council. Dr. Stone the community to address health and wellness and student Jennifer Ellis contributed expertise needs of central Indiana residents. During Phase on commercial aquiculture to the planning NWA Quality of Life Plan: I, Lisa Cole, formerly with IU Health, process. (Phase I and II) Community Organizer contributed her knowledge regarding IU (LaShawnda Crowe Storm, P: 317.925.4231) Health’s Garden on the Go Program for making Ebenezer Baptist Church In the professional role of Community fresh produce available to residents of urban (Rev. Shaune Shelby, P: 317.631.5946) Organizer, LaShawnda brought together a neighborhoods throughout Indianapolis. Kaliah An Indianapolis native, Reverend Shaune R. diverse community of residents, businesses, Ligon, represented IU Health during Phase II. Shelby is Pastor of the Ebenezer Missionary faith-based institutions and other community (Phase I and II) Baptist Church (MBC) and is the 3rd Pastor stakeholders in the development of a since the church founding on November 6, community-led economic and social NWA Resident 1960. He has served in ministry at Mt. Vernon development plan known as The Northwest Aleks Gifford has been a resident of NWA for MBC Chicago, Illinois, Bible-Based Fellowship Area Quality of Life Plan or QoL. LaShawnda 15 years, living in the Riverside neighborhood. Church in Tampa, Florida, and Second Calvary brought to the AWP process deep knowledge of Aleks is a Sr. Mortgage Loan Officer, husband MBC in Norfolk, Virginia. He has done a the community needs, ascertained through her and father of three small children who are being mission trip to Burkina Faso, Africa where he involvement with the QoL. (Phase I and II) raised in Riverside. He is an urban farmer, an taught and preached, and leads visits to the avid gardener, sustainable living advocate and Holy Land, Israel. He also leads a men’s bible enjoys serving on the RCL Board and as the study for the Indiana Department of NWA QoL Governance Council Chair. Corrections, Re-Entry Program. (Phase II)

Subject Matter Experts Holladay Properties (Chris Wilkes, P: 317.548.4238 ) As the planning process evolved, numerous As Partner and SVP Development of Holladay subject matter experts were invited to share Properties, Mr. Wilkes oversees the technical expertise with the City, steering development and management of AmeriPlex, committee and facilitators. Many of the Subject Holladay Properties' 1,500-acre corporate Matter Experts engaged during Phase I included business park in Indianapolis. Since joining those with advanced knowledge that focused on Holladay in 2002, Mr. Wilkes has orchestrated elements of urban agriculture: soil science, over $55 million in land transactions and has cooperative farms, food distribution models, developed over 3 million square feet of food processing and other aspects of the food industrial and commercial facilities within ecosystem. Holladay's AmeriPlex Park, including the Experts in Phase II brought information to bear Purdue Research Park, an 80-acre research and regarding cooperative models, innovation technology park being co-developed with The districts, site marketing, site development, and Purdue Research Foundation. (Phase II) business park creation, and neighborhood investment absorption capacity. Marion County Public Health Department Indiana Cooperative (Sandy Cummings, P: 317.221.2000) Development Center MCPHD promotes healthy lifestyles and (Debbie Trocha, P: 317.692.7707) healthy environments for Marion County Debbie Trocha joined the Indiana Cooperative residents. MCPHD has assisted with grant Development Center in August, 2006, after implementation by analyzing NWA health and serving as Executive Director of the Indiana environmental conditions in and the effects of Small Business Development Center. Under her demolition and remediation of the Carrier- leadership, ICDC promotes cooperatives as a Bryant site on the health of nearby residents vibrant model to address economic and social through publication of the NWA Baseline needs. ICDC provides start-up, management, Health Assessment report. (Phase I) and technical assistance to a wide variety of co- ops in agriculture, arts, childcare, education, energy, and housing sectors. ICDC also provides training opportunities designed to bring together groups of people involved in co- op development. (Phase I & II)

City of Indianapolis, Indy Chamber/Develop Indy Central Indiana Corporate Department of Parks & (Todd Cook, P: 317.464.2276) Partnership/16 Tech Recreation Todd serves the Indy Chamber as Senior (Betsy McCaw, P: 317.275.9309) (Andre Denman, P: 317.327.7275) Project Director. The Indy Chamber includes Betsy serves as chief operating officer for the Indy Parks is responsible for managing all city Develop Indy, Indy Partnership and the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) parkland, parks, greenways, and recreational Business Ownership Initiative. In his role with where she oversees projects that enhance facilities and is committed to providing a safe, Develop Indy, Todd oversees economic CICP’s overall mission, including a regional fun, engaging, and sustainable park system to development in the City of Indianapolis, Bioscience thrust. McCaw is also serving as enhance the quality of life of Indianapolis including marketing the City for business President of the 16 Tech, the entity overseeing residents. Indy Parks has provided input on relocations and expansions, site identification the development of the 16 Tech innovation converting brownfields to parkland and and real estate services, incentive district, anchored by the Indiana Biosciences recommendations for how to align the AWP recommendations, and project management and Research Institute, just blocks south of NWA. implementation plan with existing Indy Parks liaison services with the City's department of A Community Investment Fund dedicated to efforts to extend the Central Canal Greenway code enforcement. (Phase II) supporting the NWA QoL plan will be and abandoned CSX rail spur through the established from rents collected within the project area. (Phase I and II) Ivy Tech Community College of district. (Phase II) Indiana: Hospitality City of Indianapolis: Administration, Culinary Arts Purdue Cooperative Extension Department of Public Works (Thom England, P: 317.921.4619) Service: Hancock County Office of Sustainability Chef England is a local food expert and author, (Roy Ballard, P: 317.462.1113) (David Hirschle, P: 317.925.4231) founder of Dig IN; a non-profit for the Roy Ballard is an Extension Educator for promotion of Indiana Food, Agriculture, and In his role with the Office of Sustainability Agriculture and Natural Resources at the Beverages, and is the Culinary Program (OS), Dave’s focus is primarily on projects Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, Coordinator for Ivy Tech Community College. related to food access, code development, and Hancock County Office. He is also the Indiana Ivy Tech students can receive an Associate building energy efficiency. He is a Certified State Coordinator for the North Central Degree of Applied Science in Hospitality Planner and a LEED-accredited professional Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Administration with a Culinary Arts and has been with OS since November, 2011. (NCR-SARE) which is a regional office of a Concentration. Chef Thom shared with the Prior to that, he worked for the city’s nationwide grants and education program to project team the many opportunities for NWA Department of Metropolitan Development on advance sustainable innovation to American residents to engage with students, and the Indy ReZone effort, and on updating the agriculture. Roy’s expertise earned through the speculated that the contemplated Food Hub city’s Comprehensive Plan and drafting zoning feasibility study, launch and ongoing could be an accessible venue for cooking ordinance amendments pertaining to wellfields stewardship of the Hoosier Harvest Market demonstrations and nutrition classes as part of and mining activities. (Phase I and II) Food Hub, a virtual farmers market which his program’s requirement for students to began filling orders in mid-2013, was essential perform community service. (Phase I) to the project team’s understanding of the operational, regulatory and market aspects of a food hub enterprise.

Subject Matter Experts Urban Initiatives TWG Development (Brad Hurt, P: 317.513.6262) (Dennis Dye, P: 317. 264.1833) As President of Urban Initiatives, Brad Hurt has Dennis Dye is a principal at TWG been providing a broad range of consulting Development, LLC. He is responsible for site services to clients since 1991. These services evaluation and acquisition, development, include project management, economic financing and sale for market rate and development, downtown redevelopment, and commercial projects. He is active in the real estate development consulting. His community serving many civic organizations development experience included downtown including the Indiana Sports Corporation Board and suburban office buildings, retail projects, and Executive Committee, the Butler University industrial parks, apartments, and large scale College of Business Board of Visitors, and the land development transactions. (Phase II) City of Indianapolis 16 Tech Advisory Council. (Phase II) City of Indianapolis: DMD Real Estate Services Marion County Soil & Water (Steve Schulmeyer, P: 317.327.5908) Conservation District Steve has nearly 40 years of experience with (Kevin Allison, P: 317.786.1776) Kevin serves as Marion County Soil and Water the City of Indianapolis having been involved Conservation District’s Urban Soil Health in various neighborhood and economic Specialist. He is focused on assisting land users development projects for DMD such as the in applying the principles of Soil Health to Downtown Canal, Fall Creek Place, Keystone gardens and small farms for the benefit of soil Enterprise Park, Union Station and the old RCA function and the environment. (Phase I) Dome. Steve facilitated the Steering Committee's tour of the Keystone Enterprise Park and meetings with several of the business Purdue Cooperative Extension owners within the park. (Phase II) Service: Marion County (Emily Toner, P: 317.275.9309) Keystone Enterprise Park Emily Toner is an urban agriculture educator Representatives for Purdue Extension – Marion County in Indianapolis. She supports the urban agriculture The planning process included a tour of the community by providing direct education Keystone Enterprise Park and meetings with the opportunities as well as building the food following businesses: Doug Switzer of Vision system community. (Phase I) Direct, Tony Gates of Commercial Foods, Ariana Turner of Xpress Cargo Inc., Mark Miller of Markey’s Rental and Staging and Bryan Foley of Restaurant Depot. (Phase II)

Englewood Community Consulting Support Engaging Solutions Development Corporation (Debra Simmons Wilson, P: 317.283.8300) The City of Indianapolis was supported in the (Joe Bowling, P: 317.496.2662) Engaging Solutions, LLC, a minority-owned implementation of the FY2013 USEPA Joe currently serves as the Director of the East business enterprise (MBE), was established in Brownfield Area Wide Planning Grant by Washington Street Partnership and as Co- 2005 as a management consulting firm and is professional consulting parties: Director for Englewood Community headquartered in Indianapolis. Debra Simmons Development Corporation. The East Wilson, Managing Principal, was relied upon Washington Street Partnership is a collaborative KERAMIDA Inc. by the project team for her expertise in effort to foster sustainable economic (Pamela Cooper Griesemer, P: 317.372.6118) community outreach and strategic planning development and revitalization along one of KERAMIDA is a full service engineering (Phase I). this city’s most important commercial/industrial consulting firm that supports clients with a full range of services including brownfield due corridors. Since 2012, Bowling has played a Guidon Design diligence and investigation, insurance cost direct role in assisting over 75 businesses, the (Tim King, P: 317.319.2055) creation of over 700 new jobs, and over $30 recovery, regulatory compliance, remediation Guidon Design, a veteran-owned business million in new investment along this engineering, soil, groundwater and vapor enterprise (VBE) headquartered in Indianapolis, revitalizing corridor. In 2012, Bowling was intrusion risk assessment and mitigation, was founded in 2011 to guide clients and honored as one of twenty "Neighborhood facility decommissioning, and sustainability partners toward sustainable project solutions in Visionaries" by LISC Indianapolis. (Phase II) program development and management. Pamela a cost effective manner. Guidon is a sustainable Griesemer leads the firm’s Sustainability architecture and engineering firm focused on Services business unit and served as senior RecycleForce providing high quality, cost effective design project manager of Indianapolis’ Area Wide (Gregg Keesling, P: 317.532.1367) solutions to their clients. Tim King, P.E., was Planning project. As practioners, her team of Gregg Keesling is founder and president of the relied upon by the project team for his expertise analysts, designers, scientists and engineers RecycleForce where those transitioning out of in integrating sustainable civil engineering achieve desired outcomes through a strategic, prison get sheltered work for several months solutions with sustainable stormwater solutions whole-systems approach involving the and help making the transition from and low impact development. (Phase I) optimization of social, environmental and supervision, into mainstream society. Gregg economic factors with a focus on local capacity described for the Steering Committee building and operational efficiency, funding Sustainable challenges that face re-entry workforce training and maintaining high-performance Communities Institute organizations such as his and provided insight infrastructure, amenities and services, and Ball State University faculty, Dr. John Motloch on existing funding models and ongoing institutionalizing the means for cultivating and Scott Truex, created SCI in 2012 as a legislative challenges with expanding the financial, natural, and human capital toward “think and do center for change.” Their projects economic viability of creating an organization states of social equity and environmental build on John’s expertise in landscape with a mission similar to that of RecycleForce. justice. KERAMIDA is a woman-owned architecture, sustainability, and systems Gregg also described the suite of surrounding business enterprise (WBE) and has been thinking design, which combine with Scott’s services, in addition to skills training, required headquartered in Indianapolis since 1988. urban planning, community development, and for a successful venture. (Phase II) (Phase I and II) public engagement experiences. (Phase I )

Phase I: Food Hub What is A Food Hub? A food hub, in the traditional sense, is a central Implementation of an urban agriculture location for local food aggregation and Food hubs of all program on the Carrier Bryant site and other distribution. In order to capture as many ages and similar brownfield sites throughout the city, benefits as possible from this site, the term operational could provide locally grown, healthy food to “food hub” is used here in the broadest sense, structures the area and address many community needs encompassing the possibility of a large range of (including identified in the NWA Quality of Life Plan, uses: food production on site, a co-op grocery nonprofits) including food access, health, economic store, a food processing facility, community generated a development, education, and local gardens, a food forest, a farm stand, food positive cash flow. employment, and community engagement. aggregation and distribution, a teaching kitchen, nutrition and health education, a farm to fork Market Analysis restaurant, and other uses that contribute to The average food In order to construct the optimal reuse plan for healthy food access. hub houses 19 the Carrier Bryant site, it is important to paid positions. understand what the market will support in this location. A detailed market potential and analysis for some form of food hub on the Carrier Bryant site, including likely challenges Over 95% of food associated with this land use, and three detailed hubs are Food Hub concept designs (see Appendix A) experiencing an have been conceived for this AWP using increasing analysis drawn principally from two recent demand for their studies: (1) “Hoosier Farmer? Emergent Food products and Systems in Indiana”, prepared by Ken Meter, services. - 2013 National Food analyzing the state of non-commodity farming Hub Survey Findings in Indiana, and (2) “Indiana Farms, Indiana Foods, Indiana Success: Central Indiana Food Hub Feasibility Study”, prepared by Sarah Aubrey, Principal at Prosperity Ag & Energy Resources. The aforementioned LISC- sponsored, Linking Regional Economic Clusters with Targeted Urban Places, also contributes relevant market data for a food distribution economic cluster in Indianapolis.

NWA Food Hub Appraisal Food Hub 4.0 % Each food hub concept presented to the Scheme C offered the highest number of jobs Employment 4.6 % Steering Committee contributed multiple layers created at 139, which would only support about Opportunities 5.6 % of consideration, including food production that 5.6% of the current unemployed residents. provides for NWA and beyond, community Scheme A amenities, additional housing opportunities in Elements of the food hub concept may be better the neighborhood, and infrastructure upgrades suited for the many vacant lots distributed Scheme B in and around the site. Although impressed throughout the NWA, as food security is such Scheme C with the over-arching food hub concept, the an important issue for NWA residents. Steering Committee ultimately surmised that Remaining Unemployed the number of jobs created through each design scheme was not plentiful enough to benefit the whole community.

Food Hub Concepts Land Allocation Analysis

51 Phase II: Alternativet ive TheThe HIAHIA statesstates that chronic conditions such as congestive heart failure, stroke, didiabetes,abetes, anandd Development Programsg rams heart disease can reflect NWA residents’ ability In the next phase of the AWP process,rocess, the to attain healthy food, be physically actiactive,vee, livelilivev Steering Committee, with the blessingessing of tthehe ststress-freeress-free lives and have accessaccesss ttoo hehhealthcare.althhcare. EPA and City of Indianapolis, expandedexpanded thethe “In essence, these cchronichrrononici cconditionsono ditiionns araree tiedtit ed to scope of the planning investigationtion in an effort the absencabsencee off activeactive living.”lilivingg.”” ThThehe reporeportrtt alsoalsso to identify alternative developmentment solutions inindicatesdicates ththathatat NNWA’sWA’s elevateelevatedd lellevelsvev ls ooff with a focus on accessible job ccreation.reation. The cacardiovascularrddioi vasccular ddiseaseiseaasese aandndn pulmonapulmonaryry Steering Committee utilized thee results of a coconditions,ndndititiionss, aas ccomparedomompap red to the rest of Marion health impact assessment and drdrewew uponupon thethe CoCounty,unty, mamayy bebe iinfluencednfluenced by brownfield valuable perspectives provided by the Indiana contaminanttaminant exexposures.posures. Further, NWA CCooperativeooperative Development Center, RecyRecycleclcle pediatric health concerns including low bibirthrth Force, 16Tech, Keystone EnEnterpriseteterpprir see PPark,ara k,k, IndIndyy weight, pre-term deliveries, infant mortality, East Promise ZonZone,e,, HHollidayolllliday PropProperties,ere tiess, UrUUrbanban and neonatal mortality rates, which are all IInitiatives,nitiativees,s, and TTWGWG DeD Development,veloopmp ent, LLLLC.C.C TThThee higher than county averages, may also be ggrouproup organizedorgaganinizeed thesetht ese learningsleearniingngs intoini to a SWOT impacted by the presence of brownfields. anaanalysisnala ysis to better uunderstandndndererstannd anandd cocommunicatemmunicate ththehe ccontext,onttexext,, scale aandndd iimpactmpact of the CarrieCarrierr HIA recommendations have been made to BBryantryant sitesitite anaandd its various development ensure the health of NWA residents is protected ppopotentials.teenntiai ls. from the negative consequences of brownfield redevelopment, while maximizing the health HeHHealthe a l t h IImpactm p act AAssessmentssessment benefits incurred from the positive consequences of brownfield redevelopment. InIIncludednclclududed in the Phase II process has beenbeen Recommendations were prioritized at the caccarefulreful review of the “Health Impact quality-of-life meeting on July 16, 2015. At AssessAssessmentment ooff BrBrownfieldsownfields in ththee NNorthwestorthwest this meeting the residents present indicated that AArearea Neighborhood of Indianapolis” (HIA)(HIA) their top three top recommended actions for rreporteport issued iinn SeptembeSeptemberr 2015 byby Dr.Dr. redevelopment are: CCynthiaynthia L. Stone and her colleagues at the IIndianandiana University Richard M. Fairbanks • senior housing, which may address the high SSchoolchool of Public Heath.Heath. The report illustrates number of seniors residing in NWA; tthehe interconnectivity of environmental • a co-op grocery, which may address NWA cconditions,onditions, public safety, community health, food security concerns; and economic conditions,conditions, and social cohesion as • walking and biking trails along the canal, ttheyhey relate to NWA’s overall communitcommunityy which encourage active living habits. hehealth.alth.

RecycleForce Indiana Co-Op The steering committee was advised to consider http://www.recycleforce.org/ Development Center carefully the significant challenges of starting a The Steering Committee discussed the potential http://icdc.coop/ co-op, including: for the redevelopment to host a business with a The Steering Committee, in response to the re-entry workforce training program. To that NWA community’s interest in a cooperatively- • 100% consensus about the mission and end, Gregg Keesling with RecycleForce owned (co-op) grocery store/café, requested structure of the worker-owned coop is provided them with valuable insights from the additional information about co-op business needed from the start; perspective of a social enterprise that pays models from Debbie Trocha, the Executive • Worker/owner financial commitment is work-release and ex-offenders $9-$11/hr at Director of the Indiana Cooperative needed. Financing can be a huge challenge, Marion County’s 5th largest electronic recycler. Development Center (IEDC). and it is hard to be adequately capitalized at start up; and The demand for workers coming from Although there are many kinds of co-ops, a • There is usually a long timeline until the co- RecycleForce’s program is in part due to worker-owned co-op, would be the type most op is revenue producing. As many as 12 – Indiana’s Right-to-Work law which has created responsive to the needs of NWA since at a 15 people are needed to create a steering a labor shortage in the $10 – 13/hr wage range worker-owned co-op, workers who intend to committee, then it takes 24-36 months and to the E-verify system which has had a big use the co-op for employment create and before a co-op is ready to hire its first impact on hiring immigrants. RecycleForce also maintain a values-driven business that puts manager. provides temporary housing, monitoring / worker and community benefits at the core of biometrics, child support management and its purpose. Workers participate in the profits, visitation accommodations, and OSHA training oversight, and governance of the organization Step 10: to inmates on work-release and to ex-offenders. using democratic practices, and workers own 30 Months Hire Manager RecycleForce pays for these support services the majority of the equity in the business and Step 9: Implement out of its business revenue, supplemented with control the voting shares. & Execute Business Plan grant funding, and not as a traditional contractor 24 Months Step 8: Secure Financing to the criminal justice system. Skilled Trades co-ops are an example of a Step 7: Elect a Board of Directors worker-owned co-op that are in demand and Step 6: Develop and file Articles of Gregg advised the Steering Committee to avoid pays well, but these require skilled worker- Incorporation and Bylaws traditional train-and-place. As potential owners with a low risk tolerance who are also 18 Months Step 5: Confirm the commitment of membership alternatives to e-waste recycling, Gregg advised entrepreneurial. Food co-ops may not require 12 Months Step 4: Develop the business and marketing plan the Steering Committee to look at training Step 3: the same level of skilled workers but they may 6 Months Analyze the market and feasibility of the project sheetrock hanging, plumbers, electricians fish not be as desirable in terms of wages or job Step 2: Where are we now? farming and sorting salvaged building creation, since for every $1M in sales, only 9.3 Where do we want to go? How do we get there? material/deconstruction and avoid logistics and jobs are created. Laundry co-ops, home health Step 1: Form a steering committee of those interested in developing a co-op hospitality due to the difficulty in getting care co-ops and retirement housing co-ops are participants placed in these jobs. other examples of worker-owned co-ops that Timeline and General Steps in may be feasible within NWA. Developing a Cooperative Business

Keystone Enterprise Park The Keystone Enterprise Park (KEP), on Indy’s The Steering Committee learned that KEP near east side adjacent to the Martin- originally had about 70 acres of developable Brightwood neighborhood, was identified as a land, 15 acres of which are still available; the proxy for how the development of the Carrier City of Indianapolis owned the land within KEP Bryant site and the Montcalm corridor could and continues to market and sell the remaining look in 10 or 15 years. The Steering Committee parcels; the business owners there are bound by members toured KEP and spoke with covenants and restrictions on their operations representatives from five business located there and have requirements for site maintenance to about their experiences being in a development which owners attribute a very pleasant and within an urban neighborhood challenged by clean park; Martindale Brightwood brownfields. Development Corporation reviews the proposals of interested purchasers; and, once Prevailing themes heard were: 1) most of the the park reaches a certain extent of ownership, companies in KEP provide business-to-business the business will have to organize themselves to goods and services with distribution take on the overall management of KEP. capabilities, so easy access to I-70 was a huge factor in locating there; 2) the businesses were It has taken about 15 years for KEP to mature to willing to partner with local community and the level of providing about 500 jobs. A slow faith-based organizations to identify and/or start may have been due to the difficulty train potential job candidates from the fulfilling the requirement to hire local residents. community; 3) the businesses there built their There are no child care centers, health clinic own structures to suit their needs and had room facilities, or public green spaces within on their lots to expand; 4) most businesses there KEP. Employees from KEP would likely have security systems, lighting and fences and patronize local restaurants and grocers if there attribute their satisfaction with overall security were more/any nearby. Some employees to only one way in and out of the park and no commute to KEP by bus or bike. retail within KEP; 5) the Small Business Administration HUB-zone program is attractive to business that want to seek HUB certification The Steering Committee agreed that many to capture market share while hiring 35% of elements of KEP’s overall framework were their employees from within the HUB-zone desirable and could be advocated for in this (both KEP and NWA are within HUB-zones); plan, but there were concerns that job and, 6) barriers to employment include poor accessibility would remain a common driving records and substance abuse, but at least challenge. two of the employers mentioned hiring from work-release and “back on my feet” programs.

Indy East Promise Zone Joe described their quarterly Quality of Life Developer Panel http://indyeast.org/ (QoL) neighborhood meetings as a way to Representatives from local developers Holliday The lack of a community development defend against when people start to get Properties, Urban Initiatives, and TWG corporation (CDC), and the organizational territorial, since that can be poisonous and Development, LLC, were assembled on a panel capacity one would provide, was discussed by erode a neighborhood’s capacity. He also to describe for the Steering Committee how the Steering Committee as a primary deficiency described their decision making process as one firms similar to theirs might approach the in the NWA’s ability to steward the that always asks if an initiative that is seeking redevelopment of a site like Carrier Bryant. redevelopment of the Carrier Bryant site and support is going to be sustainable long term and They were asked to speak from their experience implement their recently published Quality of whether it will build long term capacity. Joe about what challenges, risks and opportunities Life Plan (2014). Indy’s near east side was advised the Steering Committee to celebrate exist as they perform site selection, secure identified as local source for lessons learned radical resident engagement; encourage and financing and seek community support for their since they have been growing their internal support local institutions and businesses in projects and to share with the Steering capacity to realize the goals in their Quality of becoming drivers of change; and, invest Committee their evaluation of the Carrier Life plan (published in 2008). Their efforts resources in neighborhood capacity. Bryant site and what market constraints exist. recently garnered them the Indy East Promise Zone (IEPZ) designation from HUD. 16Tech Positive attributes included site control, the Joe Bowling with Englewood CDC, one of the http://www.16techindy.com/ site’s location within the Downtown The 16Tech innovation district presentation to IEPZ member neighborhood organizations, Consolidated TIF district and close proximity to the Steering Committee by Betsy McCaw with described the “near east side of Indianapolis” downtown - where end-users who want to be Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) as comprised of 20 different neighborhood close to other businesses that are already close discussed the potential for the planned project organizations with robust and distinct to downtown want to relocate, the perception to create jobs for NWA residents. A link to the neighborhood identities . While they are that there are a scarcity of sites this size within Battelle study she referenced is located here: stronger together, they err on the side of local Marion County, and proximity to commercial http://www.biointellex.com/wp-content decision making when a neighborhood’s areas with which partnerships may be made /uploads/2015/09/Indy-Talent-Driving- identity is at stake. Early on, a coalition of with Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IU Health, Innovation-Report.pdf When the 16 Tech residents worked at identifying and prioritizing and 16Tech. Negative attributes included the Innovation District is fully built-out in 2030, local institutions that could be charged with the site’s location adjacent to residential properties, using the estimated space uses and industry responsibility to both curate a neighborhood’s lack of adequate truck access, distance from allocations, it is expected that the 9,120 jobs authenticity - since the average stay of a and limited access to I-65, limited access to the housed at 16 Tech will comprise of 3,849 high resident in a neighborhood is getting shorter – frontage along Montcalm, its awkward ‘L skilled jobs or 42% of the total jobs generated; while growing a neighborhood’s development shape”, poor drainage, and the availability of 2,256 middle skilled jobs or 25% of the total capacity over time. These institutions are and competition by suburban “Greenfields.” jobs generated; and, 3,016 low skilled jobs or intentionally putting down roots to grow a The Steering Committee was advised to “be a 33% of the total jobs generated. With more than diverse community where the people who have patient seller” and court an end-user with a long half the jobs created offering opportunities in lived there in the worst of times can live there term plan to invest in the community while middle and low skilled occupations, job training in the best of times. sustaining a stable business model. will be essential to employ NWA residents.

S.W.O.T. Strengths A SWOT analysis is a tool used by many • Site location is close to resources (i.e. 16 groups to help identify internal and external Tech, Speedway, motorsports, downtown, factors that positively and negatively influence Interstate 65, and IUPUI) solutions to various issues they may have. The • Located within Downtown Consolidated TIF exercise works when organizations employ the District – funding source for job training and acronym to identify those components in this infrastructure way: • City currently maintains site control • S = Strengths: Internal attributes of the • Size: organization that are helpful to achieving the • 19 ac.! (Large for urban infill parcel) goals of the AWP. • Size draws interest/large parcels of land in Indy are limited • W = Weaknesses: Internal attributes of the • Flexible -S may adapt to/support many organization that are harmful to achieving applications at once (2 parcels) the goals of the AWP. • Rail connectivity possible with adjacent spur S W • O = Opportunities: External conditions that are • Site may support a reuse which requires helpful to achieving the goals of the AWP. outdoor space such as childcare or recreation • T = Threats: External conditions that are • The energized community can guide barriers to achieving the goals of the AWP. development • RCL, Watkins Park, QoL The SWOT analysis served to organize how the • May be built to the desires of (adjacent) advice and observations of invited subject community (via AWP) O T matter experts resonated with the Steering • Site has catalyst potential to spark Committee and resulted in an inventory of development at other nearby locations strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This exercise was not intended to reach • May become a “destination” for the City consensus or speak for every NWA resident, • Creation of tax base and in fact, it illustrates a full spectrum of • Lot “L” shape allows for separation of viewpoints, some contradictory. Rather, it is zoning; Mixed-Use, Recreation and/or Light meant to provide a snapshot of ideas and Industrial perceptions that existed at the conclusion of the • Connectivity: public transportation; planning process which will inform the NWA’s pedestrian, bicycle lanes nearby growing capacity to plan for the site’s • Have QoL and AWP as roadmaps redevelopment and implementation of the • Local business support AWP. • Vibrant residential community

Weaknesses Opportunities Threats • Limited access for commercial vehicles • Potential 16 Tech spinoff businesses: • Outside Speculators/Land Grabbers • Site is embedded within neighborhood offices, support services (B2B), vendors, • Impatience, Planning Fatigue, and th th • 16 Street, 18 Street, Burdsal Pkwy., laundry, and motorsports consternation creates stagnation and makes Harding Street, and Montcalm Street • Apply surplus property for parcel assembly potential businesses skittish are restricted. • No frontage along Montcalm • Use TIF to support infrastructure, job • Financial pressure to show return on training, etc. to unskilled workforce investment, and return site to City tax rolls. • Prohibitive L-shaped lot geometry • Riverside Park as a business amenity • Gentrification/Displacement: • Outsiders’ negative perception of NWA as low education, high crime, etc. • Trails + greenways + canal recreation and • Be strategic + mitigate. facility amenities include: White River, • Inability to discuss tax base creation and • Poor condition of surrounding infrastructure Riverside Park, Canal Tow Path such as sidewalk, street and sewer networks economic opportunity, while maintaining • Poor conditionW of nearby properties • Obtain City assistanceO for vacant/brownfield current residents’T best interests • Vacancy, abandonment, maintenance, property clean up and infrastructure issues • NWA lacks strong community organizations rentals. • Create county industrial land bank via ICIC like a CDC to provide leadership • Lack of nearby skilled workforce • Mitigate Gentrification: • Abandonment/lack of long-term commitment • Site size too small for some desired uses • Cultivate family asset management • Missing amenities in neighborhood: gas • To some, a lack of cohesive neighborhood skills among residents, station, drycleaner, child care, etc. identity • Create forum via ICIC or other host • Infrastructure concerns: narrow streets inhibit • To some, a lack of historical • Create/enforce Community Benefit logistics/transportation, sidewalk disrepair, memory/community/pride Agreement deficient street permeability for emergency and convenience • Limited outreach to site stakeholders with • Branding/Re-Branding: Unified Identity. up-to-date information • Job Creation • Pedestrians desire paths • Some stakeholder ambivalence • Buffer residential from industrial zones • Competition with 16 Tech Development. • Low population density, population decline, • Become local and national model for • Child Safety resident flight abandoned urban site reuse • Competition with other recreational facilities • Many different community identities to • Promise Zone Designation, Partnership with • Preserve existing venues balance Promise Zone Entities • Balance local and area-wide demand for • Difficult to conserve integrity of community • Community control via AWP engagement resources (no host for this) culture • Roundabout installation at • Re-entry programs may deter growth if they • Location within a residential neighborhood Burdsal/Montcalm intersection inhibit area quality of life (i.e. material • Potential for irregular shape of site to be • Ivy Tech hospitality re-entry program sorting/salvage can impact area air quality) carved up in a way that leaves a portion • Re-entry programs not funded through criminal justice system poorly utilized.

Long-Term Opportunities and communally cherished properties” in an effort to preserve local history while Optimum long-term solutions include plans revitalizing communities (Landmarks). that provide neighborhood stabilization, job creation, and connection or cooperation with other local development mission happening As a portion of its Core Values Statement, within and adjacent to NWA’s boarders. The Herron wishes to engage in an urban following projects are in various stages of community and serve as a catalyst for renewal. organization and implementation. Each has Since its inception in 2003 Herron High School unique end-goals, but all have potential to be has become one of the most highly rated outstanding collaborators with the NWA schools in the United States, boasting student community. diversity and intense academic rigor (Herron). Having flourished at its initial campus just

outside of NWA, Herron High School is a Herron High School & welcomed new partner to the NWA. Heslar Naval Armory The Heslar Naval Armory, located at W. 30th St., and the White River, has been a iconic fixture in NWA since it was built in 1938. After 75 years of service, the United States Navy abandoned the training facility, eventually handing over ownership to the City of Indianapolis, which then delivered ownership to non-profit, historic preservation organization Indiana Landmarks (Herron).

Indy’s award-winning Herron High School, located just east of NWA on W. 16th Street, is looking to expand their educational philosophies beyond their current facilities. They are embracing existing building re-use strategies to further spotlight the importance of history, art, and architecture in education, by converting the Armory into a second campus. This strategy aligns directly with Indiana Landmarks’ mission to embrace and repurpose Heslar Naval Armory “architecturally unique, historically significant,

Indoor Basketball Lab This redevelopment concept creates a state-of- In addition to sport-centric attributes, additional the-art basketball facility on a modest two acre tenant spaces may host small businesses, city portion of the former Carrier Bryant site. This satellite offices, and not-for-profit scheme is presently being directed by Reverend organizations. This public-private design Shaune R. Shelby, Pastor of NWA’s Ebenezer satisfies current gaps in neighborhood service Baptist Church. The facility will host visiting needs. By incorporating a multi-use method of teams during high-profile tournaments like filling building spaces, the single-function those sponsored by Indy-headquartered NCAA athletic scheme is transformed into a multi- (National Collegiate Athletic Association), by service hub of activity and community resource. offering quality practice and training facilities, Basketball Lab Concept close to downtown tournament locations like Parcel Division Banker’s Life Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium. Daily facility activities focus on Another redevelopment option is division of the community needs and desires by offering a 19-acre Carrier Bryant site. Though generally Locker Facilities variety of enrichment options. presented as one unit, the site is already subdivided into two separate parcels, which can Athletic Court Tenant make multiple smaller redevelopment Spaces This concept aims to achieve goals of opportunities easier to negotiate. profitability and diversity of activities, while also being a community resource and hub of Burdsal Pkwy. activity. The Basketball Lab fulfills a need for West Parcel Entrance facilities in which local athletes may hone their approx.ox.ox. 4 ac. First Floor Image: Earl Richardson physical skills, while also bolstering life skills necessary beyond the court, like interviewing and other job preparations. East Parcelarcel approx.ox. 1515 ac. Kitchenn Tenant In its current incarnation, the three-floor Meeting/Dining Fitness Spaces structure is equipped with full training facilities Hall Center to meet the needs of collegiate and professional athletic visitors to Indy. Sugar Grove Ave. Ave. Grove Sugar 21st St. Image: Earl Richardson Lower Level Montcalm St. St. Montcalm

Current Parcel Boundaries

Connection to 16Tech 16 Tech is a growing and continually evolving Riverside Park Innovation Community that shares its northern 16th Street border with the southern edge of NWA. The redevelopment concept of 16 Tech is to capitalize on Indiana’s rank as the second largest biosciences exporter in the United States to create a technology and innovation based business community. With the understanding that ideas are generated naturally when parties are able to interact freely, 16 Tech invites companies from a range of industries, including life sciences, technology and advanced manufacturing, to reside in this community. Possible 16 Tech collaborators are thinking beyond the Extension Zone workday by designing a 60-acre “work, live, . play” community that includes a mix of research labs, corporate offices, business incubators, co-working spaces, apartments, retail businesses and parks, welcoming streetscapes, and bike/trail connections to the rest of the city.

A partnership between NWA and 16 Tech could and should be mutually beneficial. 16 Tech literature already boasts about proximity and access to NWA’s Riverside Park, Golf Course, and Taggart Memorial, which invites 16 Tech residents into NWA for recreation. Further, a Community Investment Fund, seeded with $2M from the Downtown Consolidated TIF district, will be established to support education, workforce and infrastructure projects proposed by the adjacent community. The fund will be sustained beyond the first eight years by a portion of rents collected. 16 Tech/NWA Extension Master Plan Concept Image: 16techindy.com

B2B Opportunities covered fencing or dense landscape buffers to Further invitations to NWA can be made by preserve area aesthetics. NWA’s development of support service businesses for 16 Tech companies, known as Aforementioned, B2B opportunities, or business-to-business (B2B) operations. A redevelopment opportunities limited to the possible development B2B master plan might Carrier Bryant site may entertain light industrial look like the image below. An extension of the development options as a part of a strong Indiana Ave. 16 Tech corridor that includes the neighborhood growth strategy. Carrier Bryant site can bring jobs into NWA. Milburn St. St.Milburn E. Riverside Riverside E. Dr. Burdsal Pkwy. Harding St. St. Harding Regardless of how the connection to 16 Tech is made, there is no doubt that NWA has an eager, W. 23rd St. trainable workforce within close proximity to the 16 Tech campus.

Light Industrial Options The 16 Tech/NWA Extension Master Plan Concept may also host light industrial business applications, such as advanced manufacturing, Riverside Park logistics, information technology, life sciences W. 21st St. service industries, and maker-spaces for specialty craft endeavors,

As “heavy industrial” activities can greatly impact residential quality of life standards, “light industrial” applications by definition are industries that typically do not create objectionable by products such as smoke, dirt, noise, vibration, glare, heat, odor, hazardous W. 18th St. materials, waste, etc. Light industrial facilities often act as buffers between heavy industrial Kuntz Stadium activities that have been grand-fathered deep Montcalm St. into industrialized cities like Indianapolis. By Code, light industrial properties are fully W. 16th St. ¿ screened from residential neighbors either by 16 Tech/NWA Extension Master Plan Concept Image:Imaa Urban Initiatives

Near-Term Opportunities While waiting for the full development of the Through the QoL Planning/feasibility study Long-Term Opportunities, there is also a plan process, GWIndy identified primary issues in of action for the Near-Term. There is no need which Groundwork has the experience and for NWA to sit idly while large-scale ideas are expertise to address directly: fully developed, business partnerships are negotiated, and construction beings on any • Lack of opportunities for young people: major project. service, education and employment. • Vacant properties and brownfield clean-up GWIndy and re-use. GWIndy is an independent nonprofit • Disconnected waterways, specifically organization, which is a part of the Groundwork Central Canal and White River. USA Network. Primarily partnered with EPA • Health concerns regarding nutrition and Brownfields Program and the National Park healthy food access. Service Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program, the Groundwork Trust • Public park restoration and revitalization. works alongside local businesses, residents and government officials to revitalize And a list of secondary issues presented by the neighborhoods and transform community QoL in which GWIndy may assist: liabilities into community assets. (GW Trust) Each of its over 20 location across the United • Mobility and transit connectivity needs States are able and encouraged to adapt to local across the neighborhood. circumstances to maximize positive impact on each neighborhood through community-based • Jobs and job training for adults. environmental projects. • Location specific safety and crime concerns. • Need for more public art and art programs. Officially vetted and organized in 2015, • The need for viable and thriving commercial GWIndy conducted a feasibility study , which amenities for local residents. occurred in tandem with the 2014 NWA Quality of Life (QoL) Plan assembly. By executing some of the goals established in the QoL Plan, GWIndy can use NWA’s tremendous natural and environmental assets to spark renewal and capitalize underperforming neighborhood parks, rivers and creeks.

aesthetic value. A cover crop would also provide a number environmental benefits including soil erosion reduction, storm water runoff volume reduction, local air-quality improvement, increase in local biodiversity, and reduction of the urban heat-island effect.

GWIndy will host a copy of this plan on their GWIndy ‘s Green Team explores Carrier Bryant site reuse scenarios. website located at http://groundworkindy.org and the Green Team will update the site as GWIndy‘s Green Team “I Want” List. elements of the plan are implemented. The GWIndy has four programmatic areas upon NWA Quality of Life website http://nwqol.org which the organization focuses: will also link to a digital plan. • Youth Employment/Green Team, Bound copies of this plan will also be made • Greenways and Parks available to the public at the following • Brownfields/Vacant Land, and locations: • Healthy Communities. These programs guide GWIndy in their • Flanner House Branch response to the primary and secondary issues, Indianapolis Public Library and in creating activities and community 2424 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, interactions which will help mitigate those Indianapolis, IN 46208 issues. The Youth Employment/Green Team focuses heavily on clean-up, conservation, and • Watkins Family Center beautification efforts. The Greenways and 2360 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, Parks program area looks at cleanup and Indianapolis, IN 46208 connection of public greenspaces, including Central Canal and CSX rail line. An adult • Riverside Family Recreation Center Green Corps was launched in Summer 2016. 2420 East Riverside Drive GWIndy can use the Carrier Bryant site to pilot The Brownfields and Vacant Land program is Indianapolis, IN 46208 multiple vacant lot strategies while serving as a working to improve vacant properties role-model to other neighborhoods in the throughout NWA and the Carrier Bryant site. • Municipal Gardens Indianapolis region by illustrating how Meanwhile, Healthy Communities seeks 1831 Lafayette Road brownfield sites may be reactivated. For community engagement though urban Indianapolis IN 46222 example, one near-term reuse option is to plant agriculture, fitness and nutrition based a cover crop on the site which will improve its activities. (GWIndy Feasibility Study)