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Fall Creek Place Neighbors

Neighbors and friends of the Fall Creek Place neighborhood in downtown Indianapolis.

Website: http://www.fallcreekplace.com
Location: Indianapolis
Members: 7
Latest Activity: Jun 22

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Fall Creek/College Avenue Green Infrastructure Pilot Project

The City of Indianapolis will soon begin construction on a green infrastructure pilot project to improve water quality in Fall Creek. This project, the first of its kind for the city, will use native plants, soil, stone and other natural elements to filter pollutants from storm water before releasing it into Fall Creek. The project also will serve as a model for future green infrastructure projects in Indianapolis.

Green infrastructure helps manage, transport and treat storm water runoff through either the use of natural systems or engineered systems that mimic natural systems. The primary goals are to capture, cleanse and slowly release storm water into rivers and streams.

For this project, the Department of Public Works (DPW) will partially separate combined sewers and redirect storm water to a bioretention cell for treatment. A bioretention cell, similar to a rain garden, is a landscaped area designed to cleanse storm water and remove pollutants.

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Feds Indict Charter Homes Owners for Fraud

From the Indianapolis Business Journal

 

Federal authorities have filed mortgage fraud charges against seven local residents, including the owner of Charter Homes, the subject of an IBJ investigation last year.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana today charged Jerry J. Jaquess and six others with crimes connected with 149 fraudulent loan transactions totaling $19.7 million between 2003 and 2005.

The charges follow an investigation by special agents of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI.

Mark Roth, Timothy A. Brown and Jaquess have been charged with one count each of wire fraud and money laundering. Tamara E. Scott, Donald T. Brown, Stephen Scott Brown, and Aaron J. Warren face conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money-laundering charges.

The first three defendants could face 30 years in jail and $1 million in fines each. The last four face a maximum prison sentence of 15 years and fines of $1 million each.

Of the fraudulent loans, 52 were for homes listed by their owners. The other 97 relate to the sale of duplexes in the Charter-managed Windsor Village neighborhood near Arlington Avenue and 21st Street.

Scheme participants bought the homes for $50,000 each, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Then, with the help of inflated appraisals, they recruited investors to take out $96,000 loans to purchase the homes for $120,000 each. Lenders included Argent Mortgage and an affiliate of Countrywide Home Loans.

No payments were made on the mortgages and the lenders lost the entire loan amounts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Many of the duplexes were later resold for between $3,500 and $15,000.

A statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office says Jaquess used another of his companies, Homevestors LLC, to negotiate the purchase and sale of the first 11 properties in Windsor Village. He listed three of the properties as having sold for $120,000 each on the Multiple Listing Service, allowing the sales to be considered as comparable on appraisals of the remaining properties.

After each closing, Homevestors issued a check of about $42,000 to Jaquess personally or to a family member, a check to the person “fronting” the down payments and a $4,000 check to the investor.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office statement does not mention other Charter neighborhoods, including downtown’s King Park, Fishers Creek on the east side and The Reserve at Royal Oaks in Greenwood. But current and former Charter business partners who spoke to IBJ for stories in August and October 2008 described a similar scheme in which the company recruited and paid buyers to take out inflated mortgages on homes it built, promising to manage the properties as rentals and make payments for the owners.

FULL STORY

 

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22nd/Delaware Historic Apartments to Become High-Tech Condos

From Indianapolis Business Journal

A pair of Carmel-based investors are planning to redevelop a three-story historic apartment building into upscale, high-tech condominiums at the corner of 22nd and Delaware streets downtown.

The structure, dubbed the "Smart Building at Delaware," will contain 12 one-bedroom, one-bathroom condominiums priced between $119,900 and $164,900.

Developers say the relatively low price point, combined with the building's enhanced design and technology, should attract buyers, despite the challenges plaguing the local condominium market.

"People have been coming downtown and saying everything's too expensive," said John Karamanski, the agent marketing the property. "We're going to provide high-tech, high-quality, affordable luxury."

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New Retail Building Planned for 22nd/Meridian

From IBJ Property Lines

 

A Kentucky-based developer is proposing to develop a two-tenant, 3,200 square foot retail building on the southeast corner of 22nd/Delaware, currently a vacant lot.  Revised plans call for the building to be built on the corner up to the sidewalk, with parking beside and behind the structure.  The building will be built of brick up to the top of the windows.  IBJ has a rendering of the original proposal.

 

The project does not require rezoning, but does require Regional Center design review (which prompted some of the revisions). 

2301 Talbott Zoning Request

The Fall Creek Place Progress Team has received a zoning request for a home located at 2301 N Talbott Street in our neighborhood.  We value your feedback and ask for your help in forming a neighborhood response to this public notice. 

 

Thank you!

Brad Beaubien
Acting Progress Team Coordinator

 

UPDATE 3/26/2009:  The Board of Zoning Appeals approved a change in zoning committments to allow bathroom facilities in the carriage house.  The HOA Board voted to not take a position on this case.


You can email comments to CTRL + Click to follow link" href="wlmailhtml:{27162944-9559- 47FD-B798-1D1A0AC7EF5B}mid://00000225/!x- usc:mailto:progress@fallcreekplace.com">progress@fallcreekplace.com. The HOA board will consider your comments in deciding if it is appropriate to support, oppose, or remain silent on this request.  Regardless of any official HOA position, individual neighbors are always able to express their individual opinions directly to the Board of Zoning Appeals.  Any such letters should reference petition number 2009-AP3-001 and be directed to city staff Jeremy Moore (327-4139 or CTRL + Click to follow link" href="wlmailhtml:{27162944-9559- 47FD-B798-1D1A0AC7EF5B}mid://00000225/!x- usc:mailto:jmoore@indygov.org">jmoore@indygov.org).   The public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday March 24 at 1pm at the City County Building.

Mr. Mike Quinn is requesting a change of zoning commitments from a previous zoning case in 2006 in which the previous owner agreed that no bathroom or kitchen facilities would be permitted in the garage carriage house at 2301 N Talbott.    Note this change from the original notice: While the public notice indicated Mr. Quinn was seeking to terminate that commitment completely, we have worked with him to maintain language that no kitchen facilities would be permitted (he would be able to have a bathroom).    The owner’s intent is to provide guest quarters for visiting friends and family and there is no intent to rent out the carriage house.  He is therefore open to keeping the prohibition on kitchen facilities. 
We have arranged for Mr. Quinn to be available for you to ask questions and talk with him in person at 6pm on Monday March 16 in the offices of King Park Area Development Corporation at 2430 N Delaware.    I encourage you to meet the owner in person if you have significant concerns about this request. 

We encourage and welcome your opinions on this request and your help in forming a neighborhood response.

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Trevor Yager Comment by Trevor Yager on November 3, 2008 at 4:00pm
King Park Area Development Corporation has closed on the former county-run Juvenile Center at 2542 North Delaware Street. Demolition of the existing apartment-like structure should be complete by the end of the year after all salvageable materials inside are recycled or reused.

A group of Ball State University architecture students has been exploring ideas for the reuse of the site along with the 25th/Delaware brownfield site and will be presenting their ideas to the neighborhood TONIGHT, November 3, 2008. The students are developing a range of ideas that take advantage of one of the largest redevelopment properties remaining in Fall Creek Place. After their presentations, King Park will kick off a public process to gather input as to what should eventually be developed on the site. Residents can react to the student ideas as well as present their own ideas and wish (or wish-not) lists. Houses? Brownstones? Apartments? Senior living? Retail? Strip mall? Pawn Shop? Jail? Come participate and let us know what you’re thinking!

Everyone is encouraged to attend to provide their thoughts TONIGHT, November 3, 2008 at 6:45pm (student presentations begin at 7) at the Jubilee Center, 2301 Park Avenue. It’s important for us to be engaged in this process so that a one-time liability can be transformed into a great asset and amenity for us.
Brad Beaubien Comment by Brad Beaubien on September 5, 2008 at 9:41am
Celebrate urban living this weekend at two nearby events!

Friday Sept 5 from 6pm to 10pm at the Harrison Center for the Arts (16th/Delaware) is a community open house entitled "Urban Times." Featured artwork revolves around the theme of living in the city and you have the opportunity to help create art for this fall's "Light the Way" public art exhibition in Kennedy King Park. There will also be an open house with information on downtown neighborhoods, schools, real estate and more. More Info

Sunday afternoon Sept 7 from Noon to 6pm is the biannual Herron Morton Place Home Tour. The event features tours of eight historic homes in our sister neighborhood just south of us. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at any home on the tour (signs are in the front yards of the homes) or at the Herron Morton Park in the 1900 block of Alabama Street. More Info
 

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