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Anon 9:08 is spot on. Center Township remains mo...

2015-07-29T20:16:27.405-05:00

Anon 9:08 is spot on. Center Township remains mostly gutted. Population is 150,000 vs. 330,000 in 1950. You won't hear the cheerleaders talk about that. Only St. Louis and Detroit are worse in terms of center city pop loss as a percentage from peak. Indy is so provincial that nobody seems to quite grasp that given that, a few apartments are a drop in the bucket. Besides, virtually EVERY city is undergoing the same thing. They keep pointing to Livability and our #3 in the nation downtown. Nobody mentions that Livability ranked Fort Worth Texas #1. That's funny. Fort Worth doesn't even have the best downtown in the DFW metroplex, let alone America but it's two ahead of downtown Indy.

This town is corrupt. Too bad there isn't any...

2015-07-29T09:08:50.992-05:00

This town is corrupt. Too bad there isn't anyone with enough courage to fight it here. And all we have to choose from is more from the Repubs with Brewer (a reconstituted stooge like Ballard) and Hogsett from the dems (he is just interested in headlines...all fluff and no stuff). This town is in very serious trouble...with everyone asleep at the wheel, it won't take long to become a Detroit.

As a registered voter residing in the Old North Si...

2015-07-28T20:26:44.422-05:00

As a registered voter residing in the Old North Side, I am much more than "alarmed" at what city officials are doing, and not doing, when it comes to construction, development, or redevelopment of downtown parcels and properties. Just when I thought it was impossible to cram in more boring, cheap looking (and probably shoddily constructed), over-priced (or "income rent-controlled") structures now comes this Neil Rubler- whose countenance in the blog picture seems to be the poster boy for the monied with no scruples.

Our corrupt Republican Mayor Greg Ballard, and our feckless, ineffective City Council led by constantly asleep at the wheel Democrat Maggie Lewis are creating a mess of an urban area that promised so much but lately has seen illegal confiscation of parking spaces, TIF's that drain my neighboring areas of their tax dollars for Ballard's buddies, and those damn electric vehicles which are actually fueled by coal (think about it). The conglomeration and congestion of shoddy built and cheap looking structures- but with ozone layer rent levels- along Mass Av, Virginia Av, and in areas of the IUPUI campus region are creating grid lock on the streets and affordability lock-outs with rental rates $1000 monthly or more. Where the hell our idiot politicians think there are enough individuals to afford these places on the long term is a well kept secret to me.

Now the report of this NYC wealthy tenement builder Rubler- at least that's what I get from the info in the blog- and I am disheartened even more. Chuck "Caboose" Brewer and Lying Joe Hogsett don't give me much hope at all for any betterment of a City ruined by corruption and special interest downtown deals.