Hmmm, a street that has always been open to public travel is now long-term leased to Indianapolis Downtown Inc., a private ‘Not for Profit’ organization.

This occurred just in time for the Super Bowl, naturally.

But what does it mean? The street is no longer a wide-open public space. It is under the control of a private entity. So technically they can control who has access to it, and when. Presumably, they can fence it off and control who can enter the space and how much it costs for that privilege.

I guess we shall see. But I expect this much-ballyhooed site, sold to us as a ‘public gathering place’ will suddenly become rather private.

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Once again, the number of people killed in Indy has topped 100. And we have a full month remaining.

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At least the building generates some excitement. The $20 million retractable roof, or as the experts like to call it, ‘kinetic architecture’ was
opened today amid warnings for attendees to dress warmly.

last year WTHR noted:

Since Lucas Oil Stadium opened in 2008 the Colts have played 13 of 27 home games open air. If you do that math, that’s so far, roughly $1.7 million each time the roof is open for the Colts, and that doesn’t include $56,000 a year the Capital Improvement Board pays to maintain it.

So we have now had 14 ‘outdoor’ games played there. The cost-per-game is down to a modestly-slimmer $1.5 million.

Have they gotten all the malfunctioning exterior signs to work correctly yet?

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Yes, that’s Jay Leno posing with Bob.

And that’s not all…
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