Downtown Indy Inc. urges people to get back downtown

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH)– “Downtown — a spot the place so many individuals work, and nice eating places, and a lot to do open air — we’re nonetheless right here,” stated Bob Schultz, interim president of Downtown Indy Inc.

The group that helps all the pieces about downtown is urging folks to return again.

“It’s getting this narrative going once more. There’s a lot to do. There’s plenty of exercise occurring,” Schultz stated. “Folks love consuming exterior. There’re new rooftop locations to drink and eat exterior. So, it’s about remembering a number of the issues which are nice about downtown, but additionally discovering the issues which are new in simply the previous few months.”

The group began an initiative to assist drum up pleasure for folks to get again to having fun with Indy’s civic areas. Schultz says Indianapolis is at it’s strongest when downtown is booming.

“The extra individuals who expertise downtown, the property taxes of these whose companies are downtown, the revenue taxes of those that stay downtown, that cash represents 15% of the whole metropolis price range, simply on this mile, mile and a half of downtown Indy,” Schultz stated.

He says they’re working with town to maximise the revitalization.

“The town has been an extremely good associate on this restoration effort. They’ve been very targeted in collaborations with us to say, ‘The place does it make sense to spend the investments that we will?’” Schultz stated.