Program giving blighted neighborhoods new start gets underway on east side

INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 8, 2014) – A brand new effort to clean up blighted Indiana neighborhoods is now underway, as officials gathered for the first of many demolitions as part of the ‘Hardest Hit Fund Blight Elimination Program.’
Crews gathered on the city’s near east side at a home on North Beville Avenue – the first of up to 4,000 houses to be demolished or restored as part of the program.
“Today we will take down the first of 4,000 demolitions of dilipitated and abandoned structures that are truly a blight to their neighborhood,” said Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann.
“Houses like this can become crime magnets,” said Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard. “They’re warehouses for drugs and for guns.”

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