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The third and final installment of a popular summit highlighting ideas to make Indianapolis a better place to live and work was held Thursday.
Around 200 people, including city and business leaders, students and interested residents gathered at the Indiana Historical Society Thursday for the We are City summit.
Tim Carter, one of the founders of the summit and director of the Center for Urban Ecology at Butler University says ideas can come to life when a diverse group of people gets together to listen and talk.
"Those conversations make it easy to think of how the city and be repurposed, re-thought-of and not in an intractable, pie-in-the-sky way but something that can advance initiatives right now." says Carter.
This is the last of the summit series that started in 2012 and Carter believes the event has left a mark.
"We showed that there was a demand for this sort of conversation and content." says Carter.
Current projects like Plan 2020 and 5X5 are encouraging people to think big while crafting ideas for Indy’s future.
Newly named Downtown Indy presented the summit that featured local and national speakers working in urban design, art, education and cultural initiatives.
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