The Mass Ave Brookside Industrial Corridor is a 500+ acre legacy industrial district northeast of downtown Indianapolis that runs along I-70 from Mass Ave and 10^th Street up to Sherman Drive. The Corridor, home to small businesses ranging from 1-75 employees, is also home to many vacant and underutilized properties. In 2014, the Urban Land Institute studied this area through the Daniel Rose Fellowship and identified the significant redevelopment and reuse potential for this area. The initial work done through this study prompted LISC to designate the area as a FOCUS district and to direct resources, staff and technical support towards reinvestment and redevelopment efforts in this area. Leading these efforts is the Riley Area Development Corporation (RADC) who is working to connect existing businesses in the area to workforce development programs, resources at the City and State, façade grants and to other businesses, while also working to bring new businesses to the many vacant properties. In addition to growing the business presence and strength of the area, attention is being given to the aging infrastructure and aesthetic of the area which is important to the businesses but also the Martindale Brightwood and Near Eastside neighborhoods which flank the Corridor.

In the spring of 2015, RADC hired Anderson Bohlander and Greenstreet Ltd. to begin work on a multi-month in-depth study of the area’s assets and challenges looking at infrastructure, zoning, available workforce, parcel sizes and a number of other factors to create a set of recommendations to guide reinvestment and reuse efforts in the Corridor for the coming years. The plan they created builds upon and complements existing documents including Quality of Life plans for nearby neighborhoods, the CEDs, Indy FastTrack, Linking Regional Economic Clusters with Targeted Urban Places, etc. This plan will serve as a tool for policy makers, non-profit partners and a set of stakeholders to guide actions in the area and will support other converging efforts taking place in downtown Indianapolis and the IndyEast Federal Promise Zone.

As revitalization efforts evolve in the Mass Ave Brookside Industrial Corridor, stay connected via our monthly corridor-focused newsletter to alert you of business opportunities, grants, beautification efforts, planning updates, company relocations, public meetings, and more!

Website: http://rileyarea.org/industrial/

Mass Ave Brookside Industrial Corridor Plan

Contact Information:
Emily Scott
Riley Area Development Corporation
875 Massachusetts Avenue
Suite 101

Indianapolis, IN 46204
Tel: 812-205-5597
Email: [email protected]