Industrial Renewal

Reuse of existing industrial sites

Bicentennial Plan Themes

Bicentennial Plan Actions Affiliate Projects

  • Strategy

    Create greater local capacity to lead economic growth and development in urban neighborhoods in order to put into productive use underutilized space including brownfields.

    Actions:

    Identify/create lead entity responsible for assembling and remediating (as necessary) vacant industrial space. More details

    Department of Metropolitan Development

    100%

    Start Date:

    January 1, 2016

    Completion Date:

    December 31, 2017

    Status update:

    March 14, 2018: Renew Indianapolis has been designated as this entity and is in the process of acquiring specialized staff capacity to address industrial properties. In addition, DMD has already started acquiring industrial properties from County surplus, including the former RCA Plant/Sherman Park, where demolition of all structures in preparation for redevelopment will be complete in 2018.

  • Identify and pursue federal funds that will bolster manufacturing re-use and innovation in Indianapolis. More details

    Department of Metropolitan Development

    100%

    Start Date:

    September 1, 2015

    Completion Date:

    December 31, 2017

    Status update:

    November 29, 2020: DMD was awarded a U.S. Economic Development Administration grant to support an economic recovery team and has hired its first Principal Program Manager for Economic Recovery and a support staff. It was awarded an areawide planning grant from the U.S. EPA to develop a reuse plan for the former RCA Plant/Sherman Park and subsequently declared the site a redevelopment area and is actively working on site redevelopment. DMD secured $300,000 in federal support for brownfield work in 2017 and 2018, and another $600,000 for cleanup and planning work associated with "Black Mountain", formerly near Sherman Drive and Washington Street. Building on significant EDA planning work for the former Citizens Coke Plant site in 2016, another $45,000 was secured in 2020 for a feasibility study exploring a business incubator located nearby in the Twin Aire community.

    No affiliate projects were found for the Industrial Renewal theme. Please contact GIPC at [email protected] to learn more about partnering with Plan 2020.