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No. 2450 amending the Airport Economic Development Area Development Plan to add properties to the Acquisition List
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No. 2450 amending the Airport Economic Development Area Development Plan to add properties to the Acquisition List
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deterioration. The neighborhood boundaries are generally considered to be the railroad <br />tracks (north), Main Street (east), Olive Street (west), and Ewing Avenue (south). The <br />neighborhood is divided by State Road 23 (Prairie Avenue) which runs on a diagonal <br />from southwest to northeast across the neighborhood. (See Map 13.) Sections of this <br />corridor have developed into commercial uses and residential uses have been converted to <br />non-residential uses. The residential street grid pattern is also interrupted by a large area <br />of land in the middle of the neighborhood (Donald, Swygart, Kemble, and Bruce) that is <br />used by the Army Reserve for its training center. Indiana Avenue, running east to west <br />across the north edge of the neighborhood, is another section of the neighborhood that <br />includes large areas of non-residential uses. Once a thriving neighborhood business <br />district, Indiana Avenue now contains many substandard buildings and marginal <br />commercial uses. As with many inner-city commercial strips and nodes, Indiana Avenue <br />has declined as the use of automobiles increased, shopping habits changed, and <br />competition grew on the city's urban edges. <br />At both the east and west ends of the neighborhood, non-residential land uses <br />have had a major negative impact on the residential sections of Rum Village. On the east, <br />between William and Michigan Streets, the area is dominated by small manufacturing <br />land uses and several scrap and salvage yards. Several rail lines serving the former <br />Studebaker complex and corridor between Michigan Street and Franklin Street are still <br />present. Rail line use is sporadic and several spur lines have been abandoned. <br />Nonetheless, the commercial and industrial areas remain on the neighborhood's eastern <br />edge and residential deterioration is evident. On the western boundary of the <br />neighborhood (which abuts the Rum Village Industrial Park), Olive Street and its non- <br />residential uses have intruded into the neighborhood along sections of Indiana Avenue <br />and Franklin Street. As a result, the residential areas of these commercial corridors have <br />deteriorated, particularly north of Indiana Avenue and west of Franklin Street. The <br />interior of the neighborhood has pockets of residential deterioration, exhibiting itself in <br />scattered areas in the form of small groupings of homes. Although not significant in <br />themselves, these pockets of deterioration affect the entire sub-area. Also, several areas <br />of the neighborhood have large parcels of vacant land or numerous vacant lots <br />interspersed among the housing stock. <br />Two other areas are worth noting in terms of redevelopment and revitalization <br />challenges: the section of the neighborhood located between the rail line on the north and <br />Indiana Avenue on the south contains a mix of vacant land, incompatible uses, <br />deteriorating residential structures and poor circulation and environmental conditions. <br />Portions of this narrow band should be redeveloped and the land use changed. This will <br />require careful delineation of this narrow band of land into economic development and <br />redevelopment and revitalization sections. The second area of note is the intersection of <br />Indiana Avenue and Prairie Avenue (S.R. 23). This intersection contains several large <br />structures, including the former Oliver Elementary School, now a vacant, 80,000 square <br />foot structure. This node and the Oliver School offer both a challenge and an <br />16 <br />
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