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Hopefully she is actually present. Vodka Joe only comes around when there’s a photo op at a new playground.
Painfully funny, Corey…and oh, so true!
Congrats Taylor! You’ll be great for this role.
Yay, a make work handout.
It would have been better to just fold this useless organization and give any remaining funds to Visit Indy
I sincerely wish Taylor Shaffer the best in her new position.
Her challenges are many for developing downtown, such as
– Safety downtown.
– Cleaning downtown to keep it look8ng nice
– Bring a more vibrant architectural artistic designs and structures
– Encouraging developers to coordinate and develop high rise development
– Bring in more artists and performers
– Bring in more night life and entertainment
– run marketing and advertise campaigns touting a bold downtown to lure
more people, jobs, and economic development.
We must also start developing our skyline. That is a must for many reasons.
A growing skyline shows growth, progress, confidence, and pride.
I wish Taylor the best in her new role, Downtown Indy needs a lot of help and advocacy to get back to it’s old self. I am hoping she can accomplish great things Downtown.
I think it’s helpful that Taylor has a good relationships with the City which is needed to tackle / bring attention to big issues in Downtown Indy including:
-Security – Residents and visitors need to feel safe. Work with IMPD for their recommendations.
– Appearance – Downtown is filthy, the whole place needs a good power washing and street / sidewalk cleaning. Bill Hudnut would be rolling over in his grave if he saw the current state of the Downtown he worked so hard to resurrect. The current appearance of Downtown gives visitors a horrible impression of our city.
– The Canal Area needs a total makeover, broken sidewalks, lack of lawn and public area maintenance, there is no way the Canal should be in it’s current condition.
– Vacant storefronts need to be filled with something / anything. The stretch of Washington Street from Meridian to Illinois and East Market from Pennsylvania to Delaware feels unsafe and abandoned with multiple empty storefronts.
– A bold and aggressive redevelopment of The Circle Center Mall that involves residential development and something / anything in the Carson’s / Ayres space.
– More retail, Downtown residents don’t have access to basic retail stores like Target, Petco and a high end furniture store. I think a lot more can be done to attract strategic retailers, all of these affluent urbanites that have nowhere to shop, that doesn’t make sense.
– Work with our homeless neighbors and the agencies that serve them to find long term solutions for their housing, mental health, job training etc.
– Do something with the abandoned City Hall / former State Museum, anything would be an improvement over it’s current state.
Patrick R.
Completely agree that downtown is dirty and needs a lot of maintenance.
Out of towners coming in probably are very disappointed with all the
pandhandlers, dirty side walks and crumbling infrastructure.
With all the events that we host, do our city officials ever wonder why
companies are not bringing in economic expansions and development
after visiting. No one is going to set up shop in a deteriorating
downtown.