renovation

“10 Words” Mural at Forest Manor Service Center

We recently helped create and install a new urban art project at the Forest Manor Service Center with United Way of Central Indianapolis’ #GenNow leadership volunteers.

New Jersey Homes

We’ve had a busy year at Urban Patch! National conferences, the Sunflower Mural, rain gardens, walnut harvests, kicking off the Redbud Project and more! But wait, there’s more — we have another addition to the Urban Patch! We closed last week on a great 2-family home with great bones in our target ‘patch’ in the Mapleton-Fall Creek […]

Re-Booting the Inner City: National Preservation Conference Recap

Last month we hosted as a part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation National Conference in Indianapolis a community-based field session. As a result of the workshop we wanted to share the results that focused on neighborhood partnerships  and preservation strategies. We hope that this might encourage further work both in the Mapleton-Fall Creek community […]

Indy Star: Inspiring urban neighborhoods is a family affair

Inspiring urban neighborhoods is a family affair By Erika D. Smith “It really started with this picture of my grandfather.” Justin Moore fished around in the pocket of his suit jacket for his smartphone. He tapped the screen a few times, and found a black and white photo of a distinguished-looking, balding black man. The […]

Join us at the 2013 National Preservation Conference!

Re-Booting the Inner City: New Partnerships for Historic Preservation October 31, 2013, 8:15am-1:15pm Urban communities often suffer from the demolition of historic structures and incompatible development. How do preservation-based strategies play out in the communities they are designed to improve? You’ll hear from residents in Indianapolis’ Mapleton-Fall Creek area on the innovative partnerships and grassroots strategies […]

Urban Patch on the News

Urban Patch co-founder Joyce Moore was interviewed about the Indy Land Bank indictment by Kara Kenny of RTV Channel 6. (The segment starts at 2:45 into the video link below). Over the course of our work investing in our community and building Urban Patch we, like many others, ran into issues with the Indy Land […]

Birchwood Homes

It’s been a busy week at Urban Patch! Aside from responding to the Indy Land Bank scandal, we closed on the purchase of a “double” residential building in Midtown Indy’s Watson Park area. The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 and is home to many beautiful single family and multifamily homes. The mix […]

Preservation at the Crossroads

Urban Patch is proud to announce that we will be leading TWO sessions at the upcoming 2013 National Preservation Conference in Indianapolis.  We will lead a field session in our own Mapleton Fall Creek community highlighting the role of historic preservation in community redevelopment and partnerships. New Partnerships Re-Boot the Inner City Older neighborhoods that have suffered long-term economic and […]

Delaware Project: Cellulose Insulation for Lath and Plaster Walls

We did several energy-saving sustainability upgrades as part of our Delaware Project restoring a vacant historic home.  The most important green upgrade, with biggest bang for the buck, was to better insulate the building. Many older homes, while well constructed, have no insulation in the walls.  Installing costly energy-efficient new HVAC systems would do no good without […]