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The Smart Growth Renewal District is a planning initiative to explore how communities in Indianapolis can be revitalized in an ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable manner using the area around 22nd Street and the Monon Trail as a model.

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.