Neighborhood Fair returning Friday, Sept. 3

Seventeen neighborhoods. Food. Prizes. Those are key elements of the third annual Urban Times Neighborhood Fair, an event to be hosted on Friday, Sept. 3, by the Harrison Center for the Arts.

a view of one of our Downtown Indianapolis Neighborhoods

The event will also keep the spotlight on a new Harrison Center initiative – the Urban Living Center, which will be located in The Old Northside arts enclave early next year as a tool to help promote living in Downtown and near-Downtown neighborhoods.

The neighborhood fair is being organized by the Harrison Center staff to celebrate living and doing business in the city’s urban neighborhoods. The event will showcase housing and small business opportunities for the curious and the serious. The urban fair will feature multiple opportunities for current and future residents to celebrate downtown community and to tempt new residents and businesses to join.

Neighborhoods scheduled to take part include Arsenal Heights, Chatham Arch, Cole-Noble, Cottage Home, Herron-Morton Place, Emerson Heights, Englewood, Fall Creek Place, Fountain Square, Lockerbie Square, Mapleton-Fall Creek, Meridian Park, The Old Northside, Springdale, St. Clair Place, Woodruff Place and Watson-McCord. Ten of those neighborhoods are served by Urban Times as their official newsletter.

Other organizations scheduled to take part in the neighborhood fair include The Project School, Indianapolis Public Schools, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, urban realtor Larry Gregerson, and neighborhood historian Tiffany Benedict Berkson.

An example of an Historic Home in Downtown Indianapolis

Each booth will feature food for visitors. Several neighborhood-based businesses and organizations have also contributed prizes to be given away through a raffle.

The fair will share the spotlight with the Harrison Center’s monthly First Friday art opening. New works by Mab Graves will be featured in “Harlow and The Raven King.” Exhibits are also scheduled for Gallery No. 2, Hank & Dolly’s Gallery and the Gallery Annex.