When Black folks started fleeing the Jim Crow South at the start of the Great Migration, Indianapolis was one of the first places where they ended up. It was barely outside the South. When they got to Indianapolis, Black folks started some of the first urban farms, formed housing cooperatives and started grocery stores. They were so industrious and successful, when Madam C.J. Walker needed a place to scale up production of her famous hair products for Black women, she came to Indianapolis right here to Indiana Avenue, where she moved her company headquarters in 1910.
For many decades, this stretch of Indiana Avenue was the one place in Indianapolis where Black folks could do business out loud. Jazz clubs and other Black-owned businesses ran all up and down the avenue, fueled in large part by the jobs from Walker’s company and others.
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Black residents near Indiana Avenue want projects in tune with neighborhood
FREE NEWSLETTERS The Madam Walker Legacy Center anchors the Indiana Avenue Cultural District. (IBJ photo/Lesley Weidenbener)
Some Black residents want to play a bigger role in determining development along Indiana Avenue, following a local firm’s decision to scrap controversial plans for a massive multifamily project next to the Madam Walker Legacy Center.
The proposed $70 million development from Buckingham Cos. at 719 Indiana Ave. property owned by the Walker Center called for nearly 350 market-rate apartments, a substantial parking garage, and thousands of square feet of retail space.
But the proposal gained little traction and some significant opposition among neighbors. Among those challenging the development was the historically Black Ransom Place Historic District, a block north of the Walker Center, and a new group called Reclaim Indiana Avenue.