The value of the future East Washington Street is its unparalleled transit access and associated vibrant urban form. It won’t succeed by pretending to be suburban, and new development must embrace pedestrians first and foremost. This means wide, contiguous sidewalks with high-quality amenities; inviting active storefronts in buildings that address the sidewalk; locating parking lots to the rear of buildings, and minimizing driveways, curb cuts, and drive-throughs which diminish the pedestrian experience.
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The East Washington Street Partnership is a collaborative effort to foster sustainable economic development and revitalization along one of Indianapolis's most important commercial and industrial corridors.
Currently staffed by Englewood Community Development Corporation, in partnership with Near East Area Renewal, and Southeast Neighborhood Development
Efforts of the Partnership seek to partner economic revitalization with neighborhood revitalization in a manner that encourages residential and employment growth, improves property values and the local tax base, improves ecological quality, and promotes the transformation of a long-neglected corridor into a vibrant, mixed-use urban address.
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