Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This partnership has pumped an abundance of money and ideas into Indianapolis and has resulted in more than 20 major downtown renewal and construction projects for housing, office, convention and cultural space. Since 1974, nearly $800 million has been spent on such impressive projects as the one at Merchants Plaza, a downtown complex of two office towers and a Hyatt hotel with an elaborate atrium. The city seeded the development by issuing $4 million in bonds, purchasing a four-acre plot, then leasing the land to a group of local bankers and businessmen...
...largest project in the city is just getting under way: White River State Park, a 250-acre, $200 million park just west of downtown. It will feature the Indianapolis Zoo, a performing arts center, botanical gardens, restaurants and a 1,000-ft., $15 million tower reminiscent of Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa...
Macon, smack in the middle of Georgia, has long been a railroad city. The old train depot downtown, finished just in time for the farewells and homecomings of World War I doughboys, is defunct but still grand. The Georgia Power Co. plans to spend $3 million making its interior a trendy warren of shops and offices. The neoclassical façade is to remain unchanged-almost. Georgia Power wants to cover up the anachronistic inscription-COLORED WAITING ROOM-engraved over one entranceway. Says a company spokesman: "We don't want to offend any of our black customers...
...streets waving tiny blue-and-white Salvadoran flags, vendors sliced tangy strips of green papaya for hungry onlookers. The sizzle of hot dogs on the grill mixed with the blare of Chuck Mangione jazz over the loudspeakers. When each of the 45 foreign delegations was introduced, the velodrome in downtown San Salvador reverberated with the applause of 6,000 spectators. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, his placid expression breaking into a grin, received the second longest ovation. But the loudest and wildest cheers went to the onetime civil engineer whose appearance on the stage elicited thunders of "Duarte! Duarte...
...noon, activity throughout the country stopped for two minutes. People at office windows, on the street or in buses waved white handkerchiefs. Car horns blared, church bells pealed, and radio and television stations broadcast the national anthem. In downtown Bogota, more than 10,000 people gathered in silence as 1,000 doves were released from the parliament building. The occasion: the beginning of an unprecedented yearlong truce between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.), the largest of the country's five leftist guerrilla groups...