Indianapolis: Fastest City in the World
Indianapolis offers the best of both worlds, blending the heart of a small Midwest town with the excitement of a big U.S. city. If it's sports you like, the nation’s 13th-largest city and Indiana's state capital is home to four professional teams and the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Outside the athletic arena, Indianapolis provides the best in thriving arts and entertainment, renowned museums, fine dining, upscale shopping and a bustling schedule of cultural activities and festivals.
In Indianapolis, you can raise a family in an environment that’s clean, safe and education focused. Indianapolis has been ranked the nation’s most affordable housing market among cities with a population greater than 1 million. The city’s neighborhoods run the gamut from downtown lofts to tree-lined communities. Metropolitan housing options extend to spacious lakefront homes, peaceful rural towns and quaint neighborhoods. You can affordably live downtown and walk to the office or live out in the suburbs and enjoy a short commute to work.
Adventure is affordable and convenient. You can go to a museum, zoo and baseball game in one trip to White River State Park, which provides an awesome array of attractions and activities in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. The canal offers walkers, joggers, skaters and paddle boaters a scenic excursion through places where people live, work and shop.
In the heart of downtown, Circle Centre Mall houses the state’s finest in shopping with 100 specialty shops, a multi-screen cinema, themed restaurants, food court, convenient parking and direct access to six hotels. Downtown is always full of life with more than 5,000 hotel rooms, 50,000 parking spaces and numerous restaurants and shopping opportunities within walking distance of popular venues. Horse-drawn carriages provide tours along the streets of the wholesale district.
Indianapolis – also the capital of Hoosier hospitality – has a proven track record as a leading host for major sporting and entertainment events, conventions, trade shows and other special programs. No place accelerates motor sports more than Indianapolis, the racing capital of the world. The city is host to the Indianapolis 500 – "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" – each May and the Brickyard 400 every summer. Formula One's U.S. Grand Prix stopped in Indianapolis for eight years from 2000-07, and now the top motorcycle road racers in the world compete in the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And, the NFL's 2012 Super Bowl will be played in new Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis.
The NCAA headquarters are located in Indianapolis, and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four is on a rotation to be played in the city an average of once every five years through 2039. The city also hosts the annual Big Ten Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments. In all, Indianapolis has been the site of more than 400 national and international athletic events (including the 1987 Pan American Games) and 16 U.S. Olympic team trials.
You don’t have to attend auto races to see cars zip around the "Crossroads of America." Located in the center of Indiana, Indianapolis is intersected by more segments of interstate highway than any other metropolitan area in the world. I-65 goes on to Chicago and Louisville, I-69 to Fort Wayne, I-70 to St. Louis and I-74 to Cincinnati.
Indy Partnership – 2010 Annual Meeting, Keynote Address
March 23, 2010
Indianapolis is growing 50 percent faster than the national average; produced a net inflow of 65,000 people in the first eight years of the last decade, more than twice the No. 2 city; and created 17,000 jobs over the last decade when the Midwest's other big cities lost jobs. For a closer look on the Keynote Address by Aaron Renn of "The Urbanophile" during the Indy Partnership's 2010 Annual Meeting, click here.