A Metropolitan Development Commission examiner is scheduled to decide whether to recommend the rezoning request for approval on Feb. 12.

Martindale-Brightwood residents are mobilizing against a proposed data center development they fear will worsen environmental pollution and repeat the historic Black neighborhood's long history of industrial exploitation.

Residents protested the proposed development last month. The company holds that the data center would benefit the neighborhood.

Residents of Indianapolis neighborhood Martindale Brightwood and organizers from multiple community groups rallied Monday against a possible data center planned for development at the site of the former Sherman Drive-In theater.