about us
The Partnership was formed to facilitate a sustainability process awarded to Indianapolis through the American Institute of Architects' Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) program. The Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) initiative is a national, competitive program of the American Institute of Architects. The program is a community assistance program that focuses on the principles of sustainability. SDATs bring teams of volunteer professionals (such as architects, urban designers, planners, landscape architects, hydrologists, economists, attorneys, and others) to assist community decision-makers and stakeholders to help them develop a vision and framework for a sustainable future.
The Indianapolis SDAT will work with stakeholders to explore a model redevelopment district on the near-north side of Indianapolis centered at 22nd Street and the Monon Trail. The proposal has its roots in a recommendation of the Indianapolis Green Commission, an advisory council to the Mayor, but garners its strength from an unparalleled convergence of issues and opportunities that lend themselves to being both place-based as well as transferable to the broader region. Learn more about the SDAT process and project.
While we're focusing on one model district, there's a bigger picture.
For too long we've discarded one neighborhood or business district to build another, leaving neighborhoods to slowly decay both physically and socially. We pay the costs every day...crime fighting and social services for those left behind, finite infrastructure resources spread ever more thin resulting in poor service everywhere, increasing fuel and time costs for families who move farther and farther away, and increasing congestion and environmental degredation. Learn more about our big picture philosophy.
Steering Committee
There will be an opportunity for everyone who wishes to be part of the process to do so. The Steering Committee is charged with developing those engagement avenues as well as setting overarching goals and principles to guide the SDAT process.
| Tarrance Banks | Principal, Indianapolis Project School |
| Brad Beaubien | SDAT Project Coordinator, Director, Ball State College of Architecture and Planning Indianapolis Center |
| Janine Betsey | Executive Director, King Park Area Development Corp |
| Pearl Carter | Neighborhood Resident, President, Hillside Neighborhood |
| Katie Clark | President, Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects |
| Kasey Coler | Neighborhood Resident, Kennedy-King Neighborhood |
| Mark Demerly | Co-Chair, American Institute of Architects Indianapolis Chapter Urban Design Committee |
| Sanford Garner | President, American Institute of Architects Indianapolis Chapter |
| Kären Haley (Co-Chair) | Director, City of Indianapolis Office of Sustainability |
| Chris Harrell | Brownfield Redevelopment Coordinator, City of Indianapolis |
| Mike Higbee | President, Martindale-Brightwood, Inc. |
| Geni Jones | Martindale Brightwood Environmental Justice Collaborative |
| Tina Jones | IndyParks Planner, Indy Greenways |
| Jim Kienle | Co-Chair, American Institute of Architects Indianapolis Chapter Urban Design Committee |
| Bob Kennedy | Representative for City County Councilor Jackie Nytes |
| Ann McIver | Director, Environmental Stewardship, Citizens Energy Group |
| Mike Peoni | Planning Administrator, Department of Metropolitan Development |
| Maury Plambeck | Director, Department of Metropolitan Development |
| Allyson Pumphrey | SDAT Project Coordinator, Project Manager, City of Indianapolis Office of Sustainability |
| Will Pritchard | Senior Program Officer, Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
| Bruce Race | Urban Design Faculty, Ball State University |
| Josephine Rogers | Executive Director, Martindale-Brightwood Community Development Corporation |
| Joann Sanders | Board Member, Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority |
| Mac Williams | U.S. Green Building Council Indiana Chapter |