Rural McCordsville now a blooming burg

Sorry, but the McCordsville area is suffering from some ghettoization. First, a lot of homes that are in foreclosure are being given to HUD, which in turn are giving them to companies which specialize in low income housing. I am not sure if they are selling them to folks who are working, just don't make that much, or if they are doing Section 8. If it is Section 8, they just ruined this part of Hancock County. Secondly, with the way the Wal-mart on Pendleton Pike turned ghetto fabulous in no time, I hope the Meijer the keep their store and parking lot clean. One thing is for sure, you come out to Hancock County to commit your crimes, we don't practice catch and release. Plan on getting a bond and staying in jail until it is paid.

Hope they don't run the little folks out of town. I love the barber shop and the nursery.

This project will never happen. Commercial real estate just died.

We're in a recession.

Vinyl stock is about to go up.

As a McCordsville resident, I would welcome a few more choices for dining and shopping, but I too fear that with growth comes crime "ghettoization". I agree with the article that there is potential our small little town, but I fear growing too big for our britches, as they say. The two new retail centers have been completed for quite some time and have yet to be occupied. I thought for sure a Starbucks would have already jumped on the end spot with the drivethru! I believe it would be a bad move to spring into a new project, if our existing projects have yet to take off... It may be small and boring, but at least it is safe and friendly... for now.

"An old farm house rots away at the main intersection in town"... disgusting. Sounds like they can't figure out how to keep up what's already there.

Hey, yokels, just go along with everything the vultures tell you. Coldwell Banker knows what's best. Destroy as much farmland as you possibly can, and maybe you can catch up with Bargersville. Feh.

Maybe since you appear to have a lot of time surveying the problems you could at least pick some trash on you way into Walmart and Meijer.

Ghettoization wrote:

Sorry, but the McCordsville area is suffering from some ghettoization. First, a lot of homes that are in foreclosure are being given to HUD, which in turn are giving them to companies which specialize in low income housing. I am not sure if they are selling them to folks who are working, just don't make that much, or if they are doing Section 8. If it is Section 8, they just ruined this part of Hancock County. Secondly, with the way the Wal-mart on Pendleton Pike turned ghetto fabulous in no time, I hope the Meijer the keep their store and parking lot clean. One thing is for sure, you come out to Hancock County to commit your crimes, we don't practice catch and release. Plan on getting a bond and staying in jail until it is paid.

More Central Indiana sprawl.
Its terrifying to think what the region as a whole will look like 50 years from now. Endless sprawl and gridlock.
"Quick! Look over there! Hey, its some flat open farm land. Hurry! Put up a huge vinyl tract subdivision."
Who needs open spaces?

Seriously, why cant government and developers work together to RE-develop all the run down places instead of just sprawling out. Let small towns be small towns, redevelop the urban centers we already have. This is Indiana, not the Los Angeles basin. Unless thats what you people want, endless gridlock and sprawl. Stop lights every other block as far as the eye can see...

Did I miss something? This article talked nothing about establishing more subdivisions, and there are no CP Morgan homes in McCordsville (I may be wrong). If anything, it is talking about retail plazas, rec centers, and restaurants. I'm excited about the growth of the area. It beats traveling to Castleton to go out to dinner. I personally never been to the Wagon Wheel, and I plan to visit Joe's to drink a beer and shoot some pool. I want to keep my money in my community.

The biggest redneck I know lives in McCordsville... his name is Tequila Steve.

For McCordsville...ghettoization sounds like an improvement.

be carefull driving through McCordsville. They have a town cop that will taser you in a heart beat.

Casio's was the greatest place ever to kareoke and hang out. You could sneak out in the underground tunnels and end up in Wal Mart sporting goods section on Pendleton Pike. Hopefully the tunnels Al Capone used are now connecting Joes Grille to town hall errr....geist liqours! CASIOS and the ghosts will be back and haunt the commercial buildings and Vinyl villages forever!

Well, well, well, my husband is a direct descent of the McCord's and the Apple's who were the early pioneers of the town and I was born there 67 years ago. The carpetbaggers and their tin-god government have absolutely ruined what was a nice quiet family oriented community. They've wasted valuable farmland and none are the better for it all. And yes before you jump up and suggest it, since we were so disgusted by it, we left to live elsewhere but are faced to having to return when we are no longer able to live on our own. What a miserable thought. It all boils down to developers grabbing the profits and getting the hell out of Dodge (McCordsville in this instance.) Never mind leaving a horrible mess behind, and that includes nit picking rules and regulations that strangle a property owner along with the back breaking tax rates. Ah, well, you youngin's are welcome to it all. I hope I live long enough to see your attitudes change when you become victims of "progress".

In a flip note, an area west of downtown Indianapolis will be bulldozed so crops can be grown and livestock can be raised.

Excited wrote:

Did I miss something? This article talked nothing about establishing more subdivisions, and there are no CP Morgan homes in McCordsville (I may be wrong). If anything, it is talking about retail plazas, rec centers, and restaurants. I'm excited about the growth of the area. It beats traveling to Castleton to go out to dinner. I personally never been to the Wagon Wheel, and I plan to visit Joe's to drink a beer and shoot some pool. I want to keep my money in my community.

There are CP homes in McCordsville off of Carroll Rd.

Al Capone wrote:

Casio's was the greatest place ever to kareoke and hang out. You could sneak out in the underground tunnels and end up in Wal Mart sporting goods section on Pendleton Pike. Hopefully the tunnels Al Capone used are now connecting Joes Grille to town hall errr....geist liqours! CASIOS and the ghosts will be back and haunt the commercial buildings and Vinyl villages forever!

I have lived in McCordsville for most of my live, and I happen to be great friends with the Nickersons (they owned Casios) and I wish that Casios was still here. It was a great small town place to hang out and enjoy the ghost stories. I spent the night once their, and I have never been more scared! That place is really haunted.

From Outside wrote:

For McCordsville...ghettoization sounds like an improvement.

I dont thinkg ghettoization is good for any town.

Deputy Dawg wrote:

be carefull driving through McCordsville. They have a town cop that will taser you in a heart beat.

Yes, he is my friend, and yes be careful!

Why is thier two new strip malls in McCordsville, one by the school and the other by the new CVS, that have no stores?