Happy Birthday DIG-B!

I was just looking back through old post ideas that I never completed and discovered that today happens to be exactly one year since I decided to start DIG-B. So, Happy Birthday to DIG-B and thanks to everybody that continues to stop by!

Photos: Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Photo 9

Photos: Indianapolis Streetcar Rail

I haven't had a chance to get out to take pictures recently so here's one from the vault. It happens to be from Ohio St. right in front of The Maxwell so it ties in well with my last photo post. While I was out on a tour of development sites with a group from Skyscraper City back in June, I noticed that as part of some curbside work they had ripped up the asphalt, revealing an old streetcar rail line. You can see the old brick road surface around it as well. I believe this section has been covered over again, but if you walk around this area of Ohio St., you can still see the rail lines peak out in several spots.

New DIG-B Layout

So, obviously the new layout went "live" yesterday, and those with a keen eye will have noticed that I subtly tweaked other features over the last day or so as well.  I think the photos look a million times better in this format and I hope you agree.  Just to say again, the standard now is for photos to have a width of 640 pixels and clicking on the photo brings up a separate, larger image with a width of 1024 pixels.  

Anybody have any comments, suggestions or scathing reviews they'd like to send my way?

Aside: my wife just started a new blog about her cooking, so here's a shameless plug to take a look and let her know what you think.

Photos: The Maxwell

The Maxwell Facts:

• Location: Northwest corner of Ohio St. and Park Ave.
  
• Height: 5 stories, plus an underground residents parking level
• Ground Floor: 1/3 retail fronting Ohio St., 1/3 retail parking, 1/3 residents parking
  
• Residential Units: 105 (floors 2-5)
• Developer: Kosene & Kosene
• Project Cost: $24M
  

Project status as of September 9, 2008.

Looking Northeast from Ohio St.


Looking West on Ohio St.

Looking North at the center of the Ohio St. facade.

Looking East at the buildings next to The Maxwell.

Looking North on Park Ave.

The Northeast corner of The Maxwell.

Looking West on Miami St. (sorry about the darkness of this shot)

The stairwell treatment on the West facade of The
Maxwell (this also appears on the North and East sides).