5C: Neighborhood Identity + Placemaking Assistance
To promote resident pride and celebrate the diversity of neighborhood personalities, develop a program that supports smaller-scale, neighborhood-driven placemaking projects. This program could include packaging professional branding with implementation assistance like graphic design, landscape design, and artistic concepts, as well as grant support for physical implementation.
Value to the Community
Neighborhood-driven placemaking efforts allow each neighborhood to exhibit its pride and express its identity as something unique. Placemaking elements also increase the visual appeal of our streets.Value to the Hospitality Industry
As more visitors desire authentic local experiences, supporting neighborhood-led efforts to distinguish and enhance themselves helps to portray our authenticity. Banners, public art, gateway elements, and other streetscape enhancements also increases visual appeal of Indy's streets.Updates
- March 2024. Church of the Holy Cross Designated Historic. In the near east side of Indy, residents of Holy Cross neighborhood have been fighting to save the Church of the Holy Cross once they heard the archdiocese’s plan to demolish it. To the locals' delight, the historic preservation commission voted unanimously to designate the church as a historic landmark, prohibiting its deconstruction.
Key Partners
Confirmed Partners
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Priority + Progress
Monitoring priorities are the middle 60% or so of actions that TTI is keeping its eye on and supporting as needed.
TTI Role
The encourage role means TTI is offering encouragement to partners pursuing this action. This is the least-involved type of role and typically applicable when partners don't need much help.
