The New Downtown

The Best Day Out. Best Sexy Bar. Best Pocket Park. Here are seven new reasons to love the new downtown Indy.

Order secret cocktails. Ditch the sports crowd. Find an instant squad. A few insider tips for winning the weekend in downtown Indianapolis.

“These are all bones for great cities. You pity the cities that don’t have those things. Indianapolis definitely has them. It just needs a little fertilizer, a little water.”

In the next two years, the area’s population will increase by a few thousand people once the Downtown Transit Center, a Cummins headquarters, 360 Market Square tower, Whole Foods, and the 21c Museum Hotel all cut their ribbons within a few blocks.

With ground breaking on a seven-building addition later this year, the young-adult playground will grow even bigger by the end of the decade.