A hallmark of the past successes of the Regional Center Plans is the storefront studio. While most plans done by the City of Indianapolis are done in the City-County Building (with a series of location-based meetings), the Regional Center Plan is different. The plan moves out of the City-County Building an into a storefront in the core of Downtown. This allows much greater access to the public, which the plan depends heavily on. People walking by on their lunch hour, on their way back from a meeting, or shopping with their families see the plan work in the storefront windows and stop in to see what's happening. Hundreds of people who would otherwise have not known anything about the plan, except maybe through news clippings, are able to provide valuable input and buy-in to the plan because of this arrangement. The personal interaction between citizens, planners, and committee members is an essential ingredient in the Regional Center Plan, and past successes are a tribute to this!

Location
The Regional Center Plan 2020 Studio is located Downtown at 26 West Washington Street, just across the street from Circle Centre Mall and between Rock Bottom Cafe and the Artsgarden.

What You Can Do
The studio is designed to facilitate interaction between planners and the public. The results of all Regional Center urban design workshops are on permanent display. These poster boards contain hundreds of images and narration on the different ideas for Downtown's future that emerged from each workshop.
There is also a public access computer terminal to check out this website, which contains the results of the design workshops as well as many other resources such as maps and photos, a catalog of other Downtown initiatives, online polls and surveys, ways to submit your ideas and opinions, and information on the plan committees.
The studio also has a high quality color aerial photograph of Downtown and a small library of other plans, reports, and initiatives that affect Downtown Indianapolis.

The studio also has rotating student exhibits from Ball State's College of Architecture and Planning, which, as a sponsor of the plan, has co-located their new Indianapolis Center with the plan.  
And, of course, you can talk with those working on the Regional Center plan, ask questions, and offer your ideas!
 

The Regional Center Studio is located in the shadow of the Artsgarden.