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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowI left Angie’s List seven months before the bloodletting started last November. Over the course of my employment, I witnessed the gradual acquisition and conversion of structures on the near-eastside campus. In most cases, those disused and abandoned buildings were transformed into modern facilities that include a conference center, commissary, an old railcar diner that serves as a coffee shop, gym, and daycare center.
That the newly monikered ANGI Homeservices Inc. would choose to sell off this property comes as no surprise [Angie’s List’s east-side corporate campus listed for sale, IBJ.com, Oct. 9]. So let’s imagine how we might transform this property.
I envision this campus serving as a hub for a collection of tech startups or an incubator, where the operations all share the common amenities. Fold in a communal workspace like Speakeasy or a coding academy like Iron Works. House an area not-for-profit that’s addressing the needs of the surrounding neighborhood. Add in the long-abandoned Ford plant nearby, and you expand your possibilities even more.
Imagine the transformation when creative and collaborative people in Indianapolis come together to tackle a vision for this campus. But I may just be dreaming.
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Hugh Vandivier
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