“An empty stomach is not a good political advisor” -Albert Einstein As you pull into the lot of Indy Urban Acres, you are met with an elegant wooden canopy that stretches across the majority of the organic farm’s front property. It has a dirt floor and is lined with various flowers. As you walk through […]

When neighbors, Joe and Julie Whitsett completed the renovation of their stunning home, we were more than a little curious to see the finished product. The former taxicab company building that we share a parking lot with had been nothing but a shell without even a roof for many years. See it, we did as […]

This community has a lot of history and making It stronger is our responsibility We were put here for a reason you know it’s meant to be To groom it, to grow and care for it carefully Putting in work and time to make this place greater Keeping it clean for now and for later […]

If you’ve been by the intersection at 16th & Delaware this month, you may have noticed a wiry figure riding across a Naplab map of Indy neighborhoods. Assemblage artist Chad Campbell designed our latest billboard, a spot we claimed several years ago as a “frame” to highlight local art. Our popular First Friday openings that feature […]

A number of Indianapolis neighborhoods have seen improvements in the past few years, but of these, one of the most remarkable success stories is that of the King Park neighborhood. This is a community comprised of the smaller Old Northside, Herron Morton Place, Kennedy King, Reagan Park, Fall Creek Place, Friends & Neighbors, and Crosstown […]

  “Lift,” written and recorded by Nabil Ince (featuring Jake Hendershot) Lift Indy is a new program that works towards “equitable neighborhood revitalization through affordable housing, economic development, and placemaking.” The city of Indianapolis will choose a neighborhood every year to receive the Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships Program funding for several […]

“We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don’t have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the […]

  “To preserve our places and to be at home in them, it is necessary to fill them with imagination. To imagine as well as see what is in them. Not to fill them with the junk of fantasy and unconsciousness, for that is no more than the industrial economy would do, but to see […]

The Butler Bulldogs have made the Butler-Tarkington area home base since 1928, but bulldogs roam throughout the city. As part of Butler’s core curriculum, students are required to complete an ICR (Indianapolis Cultural Requirement), which consists of a semester of volunteering somewhere outside of the Butler “bubble.” The ICR is also paired with a variety […]