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Indy needs to up its game on convention business. Milwaukee hosting RNC and building huge expansion. Time for indy to stop being so conservative and really build boldy on its continuing success. Otherwise, cities like Milwaukee, which aren’t afraid to build big, will catch and surpass us. And Milwaukee has a lot more natural amenities to tout than indy. Get off your ars, indy. And we need a much more visionary mayor than hogsett.
Michael G.
Plus One1
Milwaukee is a great example. They’re going big and have built several new
towers in their downtown and are expanding their convention business.
Cincinnati and Nashville are expanding their downtowns and convention centers
also.
Meanwhile downtown Indianapolis is stagnating.
Where are the building cranes???
Go along Illinois and Meridian Streets from South Street up to the Circle
and it looks real bad –
– vacant store fronts
– Dirty stained sidewalks
– buildings looking old, unkept, and dingy from neglect
– not clean
– very little entertainment, no exhibits, very few restaurants.
If you’re an out of towner seeing this, would you want to come back??
If you’re a convention planner, would you select downtown Indianapolis
for your convention???
What happened to the expanded convention center and the convention
center Hilton hotel???
How about the city working with the Simon’s on building one big
signature building instead of two separate buildings. It would enhance our
skyline and give Simon’s a big beautiful signature building.
Last but not least, get rid of the panhandlers and vagrants. You get what
you tolerate.
We must be bold & visionary. We must get the private sector to lead.
To both Michael G and Keith B….I am sorry, but I don’t buy into your generalized assessments. Skyscrapers don’t make a city great or, for that matter, appealing to convention-goers. I’ll add, I am in that business and have traveled to virtually every convention city in the United States and Europe. Indianapolis is among the top.
I take nothing away from the great city of Milwaukee, having lived just south of there for many years and re-visited many times. They, like any major city, are doing what they can to re-generate their downtown and bring new life to their blighted areas. But with that said, they struggle with crime, too and not just any crime, but violent crime. Their violent crime rate is nearly 251% higher than the national average. Add to that, the crime is very centralized because Milwaukee covers just 96 square miles. meaning that the crime is isolated within those areas where visitors to the CITY would most like be. Indianapolis’ crime is problematic, for sure, but because of our government structure, Indianapolis covers all of Marion County (Unigov) and that is 4X the size of Milwaukee at 368 square miles.
The comment about restaurants is completely off-base but I want to be fair…Milwaukee has some outstanding restaurants, but Indianapolis does, too. And many (if not more) of the Indy restaurants are in close proximity to our Convention Center. Milwaukee has a way to go in that category.
Finally (and this may be the root of both of your comments), we live here and so we see our warts and our problems in a different light and, in many cases, on a regular basis. So that is not to say they don’t exist and that work needs to be done. But Indianapolis is an outstanding convention city and we continue to prove that on a regular basis. As much as it pained me to see the NRA Conference here last week (sorry, I hated for the country to see Indianapolis as the epicenter of that organization’s agenda), I applaud the city, the folks at Visit Indy and all the other organizations and businesses that continue to make Indianapolis a top spot for people to live, to visit and to return. Work to do? You bet…..but it won’t come from building more buildings….to your point Keith, let’s fill up the vacant space we have. Right?