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Vol. 12 No. 11
Including the Cultural Districts and Midtown: Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington, and Meridian St.
May 29 - Jun 11, 2015
Letterman Final Show Party at Average Joe’s
The Late Show with David Letterman fans packed Average Joe’s Sports Pub, 814 Broad Ripple Avenue [G4 on map], on May 20 to watch a Letterman special and then the final show. There were poster giveaways and lots of specials that night. Dave’s last show ran about 30 minutes long as he thanked everyone on the crew.
In This
ISSUE - BR Groundbreaking Pg. 2 ‑ Wes Montgomery Pg. 11 ‑ BR Art Fair 2015 Pg. 12
DeveloperTown’s renovation at 5255 Winthrop helped economically revive the area.
DeveloperTown - software startups By Mario Morone
Banner Artist of the issue Steve Paddack is the banner artist in this issue. Steve is a painter who lives in NoBro and paints in SoBro. A graduate of the Herron School of Art and the University of Illinois, he is the owner and founder of Paint Box Studios, Inc., a company which specializes in decorative and fine painting, and whose projects include the large scenic murals for the Treasures of the Earth permanent exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Steve was part of the first wave of Massachusetts Avenue artists, a movement that helped breathe life into the nascent downtown cultural awakening. Steve has shown extensively in Indianapolis and most recently participated in a two-person show in Cincinnati at ThunderSky Gallery. Steve’s work can be seen at stevepaddack.com and paintboxstudios.net.
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To celebrate the 11th year of the Broad Ripple Gazette we started featuring a year of local artists by allowing them to interpret our banner, while incorporating the words “The Broad Ripple Gazette”. Contact us at info@broadripplegazette.com to inquire if any open issues remain. Still looking for cartoonist, tattoo artist, pen and ink, etc. 1 Banner Steve Paddack
5 BR Brewpub Quiz
1 Letterman final show
5 Mistakes winner
1 DeveloperTown
mario@broadripplegazette.com Randy Fisher is a partner at DeveloperTown, located at 5255 Winthrop Avenue. He recently went off-line to describe the technology firm south of Broad Ripple. “The simplest way to describe DeveloperTown is that we bring new software products to life. We work on projects ranging from fantasy football prediction engines to precision agriculture. We are currently working with Beck Hybrid Seeds on their FarmServer project, which is built to help farmers leverage precision agriculture strategies to make decisions on their farms,” he explained. In a short-time, the software developer and design firm has made vast progress. “On January 1, 2010, we DeveloperTown were plotting the concept of company while we were 5255 Winthrop Ave. [PP24 on map] the renting space on the east side (855) 338.8696 of Indianapolis. Once we found this space, we bought it www.developertown.com and completely rehabilitated it. It was truly a warehouse and we had to make it workable office space. Year one to three was spent doing that. From a business growth standpoint, we have gone from 12 employees in year one to over 40. We started out doing software development, then design and then we added marketing services. Our theory is to get the product to market as fast as you reasonably can, learn and get the knowledge (from consumers) and then continue design making. The business has evolved over time. One of the biggest evolutions when we first set out, we were really only working with small entrepreneurial tech start-ups. We used the
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See DEVELOPERTOWN pg. 3 13 Random Rippling lemon
18 Maps
10 Hidden History / Sudoku
14 Random Rippling dogs
21 Wine Scene Jill A. Ditmire
6 Poetic Thoughts
11 Wes CD/LP release party
14 Where in the Village?
21 Random Rippling Taverna
2 Fresh Thyme groundbreak
6 Random Rippling pick up
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15 Historic Ad / Crossword
22 Gettin’ Ripped in Ripple
3 Calendar
7 Local Contacts
12 Broad Ripple Art Fair
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23 Right in my Own Backyard
4 ‘Round the Ripple
8 Classified Ads/Public Notices 13 BR Farmers Market
16 Old Town Minutes
23 Random Rippling LIDS
4 Buzzing Around Town
9 Howling at the Moon
17 Directory
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