'Year of the Megaproject': Why 2023 started a downtown Indianapolis renaissance

'Year of the Megaproject': Why 2023 started a downtown Indianapolis renaissance

INDIANAPOLIS If 2020 collapsed downtown Indianapolis' economy, 2023 is when the city laid the foundation for a new, exciting era.Indianapolis unveiled several projects to improve downtown this year, including two brand new skyscrapers."Indianapolis is where Nashville or Austin was in the 1990s," said locally-based urban planner Jeffery Tompkins, who mapped out all of the city's future skyscrapers. "We're right on the tip of that iceberg, but th…