3/7/2006
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Mayor, community to mark revitalization of longtime neighborhood eyesore on city’s southside
Vacant factory site was haven for blight and crime in the Garfield Park area
INDIANAPOLIS - After his State of the City address this afternoon, Mayor Bart Peterson will join community leaders and developers at the former site of the Bemis Bag factory to celebrate the property’s redevelopment.
Once a scourge on local neighborhoods after its closure in the early 1980s, the Bemis Bag factory has been redeveloped into Pleasant Springs apartments, a new 78-unit affordable housing community.
WHEN: TODAY, Tuesday, Mar. 7
2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Pleasant Springs Apartments, 1015 Vesper Place (located off of the 1900 block of Pleasant Run Parkway South Drive)
The Bemis factory site became a haven for blight and crime for several years, putting a serious strain on nearby neighborhoods. In the mid-1990’s, a fire torched the property destroying any hope of salvaging the buildings for redevelopment. The city razed most of the remaining buildings in 1994.
The Pleasant Springs development was led by Charles Davis and Brad Davis in partnership with the City of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana.
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