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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: 5
Latest Activity: Nov 3

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Winter Farmers Market Coming to Neighborhood

Thanks to AmeP for this.

Opening November 15th
The Indianapolis Winter Farmers Market
2442 N. Central Ave. (SW corner at 25th & Central Ave.)
9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Continuing Weekly on Saturdays

The only central Indianapolis Winter Farmers Market will featuring the best of Indiana's winter food bounty direct from farmers, growers and producers to you.

Products available will include, but will not be limited to:

(Confirmed)
Winter greens, veggies & fruits
Fresh & dried herbs, herbal vinegars & other quality herbal products for daily life
Sustainably raised beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and eggs - free-range, grass raised and finished, free from hormones, antibiotics and synthetic supplements
A wide selection of baked goods
All natural, non-toxic household cleaning products
Mushrooms & mushroom patties
Stuffed pastas, sauces, chutneys, spreads, jams, salsas, butters & more

(Nearly Confirmed)
Loose Leaf Teas
Locally roasted coffee
Cheese products
Honey products
Maple syrup products

What else would you like to buy at the Indianapolis Winter Farmers Market? Comment & let us know!

Support our farmers & producers, Support yourself, Support our community! Buy Local!

Eating locally grown food is nothing new. A hundred years ago, over 95% of Americans lived on farms, and city dwellers relied on nearby farms to bring food in to the cities. Yet, far from being a relic of the past, farmers markets are a naturally beneficial way to “feed” the modern urban life, while also supporting local economy growth, individual health, and community building. Everybody wins!

Local farms stay in business by bringing fresh, homegrown food to city neighborhoods.
City dwellers can enjoy the health and taste benefits of eating locally grown produce.
Individuals from all around Indianapolis & Indiana get together, have fun and build relationships. Farmers find out what consumers want to finesse their growth and production. Urban dwellers have the opportunity to better understand what they are eating, where it came from, try new healthy foods, and ask about delicious ways to prepare it at home. The Indianapolis community benefits as individuals from all walks of life visit, learn, eat and together create a more sustainable lifestyle for themselves and the future.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday morning, November 15th for the first week of the Indianapolis Winter Farmers Market!

http://indywinterfarmersmarket.blogspot.com/

Lenders Foreclose on Charter Homes

Charter Homes has been developing numerous single family homes south of our neighborhood and recently started construction on townhomes on Central Ave.

From Indianapolis Business Journal

Charter Homes recruited and paid buyers to take out inflated mortgages on dozens of central Indiana homes it built, promising to manage the properties as rentals and make payments for the owners, current and former Charter business partners say.

The 3-year-old local company took advantage of eager real estate investors by offering them a cash bounty for each home purchased, along with checks from Charter to cover down payments. But as lax credit markets tightened and home values reversed course, the scheme began to crumble, an IBJ investigation has found.

Full Story: http://www.ibj.com/html/detail_page_Full.asp?content=21924

Funeral Home Proposed for Meridian Street

A Funeral Home has filed paperwork with the City seeking variances and design approval for converting a building at 2330 N Meridian Street.   This is immediately south of the new Bon Jour Cafe.  Official paperwork has not been received, but it is believed the existing Marvin Boatright Funeral Home at 22nd/Illinois plans to relocate to the Meridian Street location.

A funeral home is permitted by existing zoning (C5).  Variances of development standards requested include:

  1. provide for a funeral home with 52 off-street parking spaces (minimum 242 spaces required),
  2. legally establish two, nineteen-foot wide, two-way drive isles (minimum 24-foot wide drive aisles required), resulting in insufficient maneuvering area for approximately 35 parking spaces (proper maneuvering area required),
  3. legally establish zero-foot front landscape yards along Meridian Street, 24th Street and Pierson Street (minimum ten-foot front landscape yards required), and
  4. legally establish an unenclosed dumpster (not permitted).

The public hearing is currently scheduled for October 7, although this will likely be continued to a further date. 

 

UPDATE 10/12/2008: The public hearing has been continued and rescheduled for November 6, 2008.

UPDATE 10/2/2008:  Thanks to FCInvader for finding this related news article about the revocation of Marvin Boatright's license.  

UPDATE 10/2/2008: City staff plans to ask for a continuance on this matter because proper notice was not provided to registered neighborhood organizations.

Ace Hardware eyes Fall Creek Place

From IBJ Property Lines

King Park Area Development Corp. is in advanced talks with Ace Hardware to anchor a new retail project at the northeast corner of 22nd and Delaware streets. Whether the roughly $2-million project gets off the ground depends on if King Park lands a $521,000 job creation grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said Janine Betsey, the group’s executive director. She declined to reveal many details about the project, which she described as preliminary. Locally based A2SO4 is designing the building, but no rendering was available.

Sour Market Slows Penn Arts Project

From IBJ Property Lines

Developer Christopher Piazza says “difficult market conditions” have led to a delay for his $3-million renovation of the Penn Arts building at 16th and Pennsylvania streets, but the project still is moving forward. Piazza and his firm, Reverie Estates LLC, hope to close on a construction loan with a local bank in October. They are working with locally based Keystone Construction Corp., which is slated to perform the work. A Keystone official said the firm has subcontractors lined up that “could start literally on the day” Piazza closes the loan. Piazza bought the building from JAB Real Estate Investment Group LLC in January for $1.4 million.

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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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