Has Anderson, Indiana reached a turning point?

[Northwest Indiana]

In comparing to Joliet, you have to realize that while Joliet itself is a decent sized city, the suburbs surrounding it are also pretty large too (most about 30,000+) and pretty well established esp those to the north and east of that city. In between Anderson and the suburbs of Fishers and Noblesville is not much of anything. Unless places like Pendleton, Lapel, Ingalls, and Noblesville seriously expand in direction towards one another and up against each other and seriously boom in population, I do not see this affecting Anderson. You also have to remember; in Indianapolis, most people are not "forced into the suburbs" due to not being able to afford the city whereas many people in Chicago are. Also, as a previous poster stated, most of the Marion County growth was in the suburban townships anyway.

Also, what good is bringing new businesses into Anderson if most of the people won't want to live there?

[ddog241]

Originally Posted by Northwest Indiana

Also, what good is bringing new businesses into Anderson if most of the people won't want to live there?

cause its easier for people in good places like frankton,alexandria,daleville to get work then driving a very long way to Indy or FT Wayne.

Anderson its self is a craphole. liberalism destroyed the school system in Anderson and Anderson is full of criminals.

[wh15395]

Originally Posted by ddog241

cause its easier for people in good places like frankton,alexandria,daleville to get work then driving a very long way to Indy or FT Wayne.

Anderson its self is a craphole. liberalism destroyed the school system in Anderson and Anderson is full of criminals.

Oh yeah, it was all them left-wing liberals that ruined Anderson. Place is just swarmed with em. I guess that's why Bloomington is loosing jobs and bleeding population too.

[indy_317]

Originally Posted by wh15395

Oh yeah, it was all them left-wing liberals that ruined Anderson. Place is just swarmed with em. I guess that's why Bloomington is loosing jobs and bleeding population too.

My guess is that Anderson would be totally different if state taxpayers dumped around $200,000,000 into a quasi-private business. This doesn't count the other $300,000,000 said business gets for their properties outside of Bloomington HQ.

[bertrandandjules]

Originally Posted by ddog241

cause its easier for people in good places like frankton,alexandria,daleville to get work then driving a very long way to Indy or FT Wayne.

Anderson its self is a craphole. liberalism destroyed the school system in Anderson and Anderson is full of criminals.

Anderson? What liberalism?

[ddog241]

Originally Posted by wh15395

Oh yeah, it was all them left-wing liberals that ruined Anderson. Place is just swarmed with em. I guess that's why Bloomington is loosing jobs and bleeding population too.

Hey it was the liberals who pushed the diversity crap on people. which ironically destroyed Anderson Community Schools.

Instead of just having 1 or 2 bad schools in the city, now they all are bad.

[Roboturner913]

Anderson is liberal? LOL. The Tea Party is running things htere. Most ultra-conservative area I've ever lived in and that includes central Louisiana and Oxford, Mississippi.

[Broadrippleguy]

Originally Posted by Roboturner913

Anderson is liberal? LOL. The Tea Party is running things htere. Most ultra-conservative area I've ever lived in and that includes central Louisiana and Oxford, Mississippi.

Kevin Smith is a Republican and yet i dont see him acting *tea party* he has huge anexation goals to help revitalize Anderson. I think he is a great mayor and he is very ambitious and thats exactly what Anderson needs.
Plus Democrats control the city council.

[grmasterb]

Anderson is where it is because of the loss of jobs, residents and tax base. It's not a liberal vs. conservative thing.

[indy_317]

I'm surprised that Anderson's council didn't go through with the money grab, I mean annexation. From what I was reading on-line, it was clear there was differences political wise. I also watched the various YouTube videos dealing with the annexation. This was important to me because the area in the annexation zone (far west side of the county) is where I'm looking for an acre or so to eventually build a home. We were looking at Hamilton County, but I bet if we jump just over the county line we could find land cheaper. Since we aren't having kids, schools aren't an issue in terms of education. However they are an issue in terms of size and property tax levies.

Overall, the annexation for Anderson made total sense to me. However, once again they wanted to use TIFs like every other overspending government out there (Indy, Ft. Wayne to name a few) and that really rallied the people in those areas. Lots of people unhappy with TIF districts diverting money from their local schools. With the recent bill going through the state house on annexations, I think Anderson lost this one time shot.