5.0 PRIORITIES + IMPLEMENTATION Implementation Priorities
Community Investment Credit is due to each of the District Partners for their past investment of time and money to increase the livability and economic viability of the overall community. Significant infrastructure and development investments have been made over the past decade by each of the District Partners and within the District, including: • Construction of the Hoodlebug Trail • Development of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex • Development of new student housing (both on- and off-campus) and academic facilities on-campus • Neighborhood stabilization and home ownership programs in the Borough • Traffic capacity and signalization improvements along Wayne and Oakland Avenues • Upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant and interceptor improvement on Wayne Avenue • Indiana Borough deemed Playful City USA • Indiana Borough planted over 1000 trees and was deemed ShadeTree City USA Evidence of the commitment by the District Partners to maintain a vibrant university and community continues to display itself, through current initiatives already planned to be implemented in the next five years, including:
• 600 Grant Street, 400 Grant Street and all infrastructure • 400 and 500 Locust Street and all infrastructure • 500 School Street and all infrastructure
• Future plans include improvements from 6th to 9th Streets and infrastructure • Future plans include upgrades to the Indiana Free Library/Community Center • Transit Operations Center Project Priorities
During the final project workshop conducted in February of 2015, community members were asked to provide input for priorities to pursue for each of the three typological areas by means of a dot voting exercise. The key projects identified through this exercise are as follows: Campus To Downtown Area Priorities Include: • The redevelopment of the 8th Street corridor in all the proposed aspects - creating a more pedestrian friendly complete street, and potentially including a new transit center, a farmer’s market, and new housing targeted to young professionals and older adults. Of the 99 dots placed on a map of the Campus to Downtown Area, 43 were placed on these projects or ideas • Locating a new transit hub or center in the Campus to Downtown Area • Create a bike friendly multi-modal corridor on Gompers Avenue and/or Philadelphia Street • Provide new commercial development along 7th Avenue as a front door to downtown • Look for opportunities to add pocket parks and seating nodes along Philadelphia Street and 8th Street
• Indiana Multi-modal Corridor • A new hotel adjacent to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex • Building the downtown streetscape project
• 9th to 10th Streets, Philadelphia Street and all infrastructure • 5th to 6th Streets, Philadelphia Street and all infrastructure • North 7th Street, Philadelphia Street to Water Street, steps and wall below Vinegar Hill and the Indiana Regional Medical Center (IRMC) Park • SINC-UP, Oakland Avenue to Philadelphia Street and east on Philadelphia Street to 3rd Street. Synchronize all lights to mitigate congestion • Elm Street Improvements
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