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Expect more MLS stadium dominos to fall as the end of the year approaches.
Really foolish move by the city.
Because travel by helicopter is so prevalent and readily accessible to anyone other than millionaire business owners?
Buy five acres a mile or two from downtown. Land your helicopter there and take a slightly longer private car.
Done.
But the Sweetwater Sound billionaire needs to land his helicopter two times a month for business! Think about the poor’s for once. Geez.
Nope. A solid move.
If the small handful of rich people who use it (Lifeline is getting its own facility) want to keep flying into Downtown and making noise with their helicopters, then they can use all their money to buy the heliport or buy land to build their own. It’s not the taxpayer’s responsibility to make sure the Sweetwater guy has a cozy place to land his chopper.
I have mixed feelings about this. The helicopters are noisy and they this located in the most densely populated census track in the state, ensuring maximum irritation levels. Besides lifeline, the only time there is any real traffic at the heliport is race time, when uber rich race fans are looking for fast route to and from the track. It is a key piece of real estate, but a heliport comes across as just a status symbol, not that a soccer stadium without a team will be any different.
As for finding 5 acres near downtown, the noise factor for the number 1 reason to push this into the suburbs.
IMS has 14 holes worth of a golf course right next door to the track, in addition to the hundreds of acres of land they own. Surely they can figure out a way to land helicopters one day a year on-site.
Hmm. There’s at least 5 acres available at the former GM plant, right on the western edge of Downtown, and soon to be served by a deluxe bridge across the White River.
Plus, the former site of the City of Oz (IndyElevenWorld) is more than 5 acres and it’s even closer to Downtown…and its neighbors are fortress-like telecom/server centers, the steam plant, and LOS. A bonus is that it’s owned by one of Surack’s business partners.
Maybe you haven’t heard…that site needs serious time-consuming archeological work.
Cool Great News! Now Develop it!!!
Even Stevie Wonder can see the hand writing on the wall with this move by the city. The city has publicly stated several times their intentions to build a soccer stadium and the the area needed to build it. This was the major piece of the puzzle that was needed. Everything else will either have to willingly sell or be taken by imminent domain. The city is hell bent on bringing another professional sports team to the city and it seems that all the decision makers of the city and state are backing the idea. To be honest, if Indy wants to continue competing with its peers, this project has to be built. Nashville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Salt Lake City and even Kansas City are all developing projects like this or trying to on some level. Indy calls itself the amateur capital of the world and we have to start action like it and seperate ourselves from the pack. The competition is fierce and Indy can’t ever take a break cause our peers are hot on our heels to steal events from the city. So build, build, build is the name of the game here.
Indy is not getting an MLS team, and I can’t wait to laugh when that becomes clear.
What reliable primary source are you using to validate you baseless claim? Indy built a dome before having a NFL team. There’s the Pacers and Fever and plenty of people with BIG pockets as well as Lilly, the LARGEST pharmaceutical company in the world. Point is, people always keep saying what Indy won’t get, then we get it. Like a Super Bowl, NBA and WNBA ALL STAR GAMES, NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP and Final Fours. What are you even talking Murray R.?
It’s quite clear that Ersal Ozdemir isn’t getting an MLS team, and Indianapolis was foolish to let him lead an effort without nearly enough funding and whiff twice because the price went way up in the interim.
It’s less clear if future attempts will fail because we don’t know who is part of the ownership group. The Simon family appears to be the type of owner that MLS is comfortable with, with both the resources and the experience owning a major sports franchise. It would appear that they’re willing to invest money into downtown Indianapolis, look at what they’re doing with the CSX building.
… and Andretti Motorsports is never getting an F1 team. LOL
As part of the original development team alongside the City of Indianapolis Department of Economic Development and Bond issuer, it is a sad day for me to see this happening to an entity that with extremely strong feasibility studies back in the day, provided and warranted the development and building of the Indianapolis Heliport. So sorry to see its demise in my lifetime, when many of us thought it to be a real God Send to Indianapolis for multiple reasons. Most are still of value. Sorry to see it go.
The world might have changed just a teensy bit in 40 years.
Big John Gillis (and all the other radio and TV helicopter jockeys) are long retired.
Chris there really isn’t much to “go” as you say. Most days there’s little to no traffic at this mostly empty hulk of concrete. Who reading these stories and posts has ever BEEN on this property? Not to boast, I have visited and flown out of the heliport several times. It’s a nice and actually impressive flight if you can get it, offering a great perspective of downtown, but the heliport has always and understandably been off-limits to Joe and Jane Blow. Whatever purpose and economic benefit it furthered — and that’s debatable — it’s toast now. There’s really no reason to lament its loss even though it provided great access and views for a VERY select few. The heliport is an outdated hunk of blah surrounded by all kinds of new development. It’s time this parcel helped foster that continued growth and development.
Actually, that post was directed more towards Bill’s comment, not Chris’.