Urban3 teamed up with Gould Evans to work with IndyGo, Indianapolis’ public transit authority, on far-reaching transit-oriented development analyses. Urban3 built a revenue model that revealed how potent a large city like Indianapolis is compared to surrounding suburban development. Our model also highlighted how downtown is certainly the fiscal engine for a community, but that dense development with solid urban form that extends outside of downtown can bolster financial productivity.
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Our model also emphasized areas near critical transit corridors. Urban3’s work helps redefine expectations when it comes to looking at what kind of land is developable, whether it be in a fully built-out city, or a bedroom community looking to add a commercial site. In Indianapolis, Urban3 showed that despite only a small portion of the land within a 5 minute walk of the blue line transit corridor being vacant, a greater portion of land with low building value, or only 1-story buildings has potential to change into a higher and better use.
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Outcomes
- After our revenue modeling analysis, zoning changes were made to maximize potential revenue and to encourage transit-oriented development along the blue line.
- Urban3 helped build consensus between the City and transit organizations using data-driven metrics.
- We highlighted the connection between parking and tax revenue productivity with City staff and other community stakeholders.