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Jeff Horner: Carmel’s Incoming Chief of Police We are pleased to feature on the cover of our last issue of 2021 Carmel Police Department’s (CPD) incoming chief of police, Jeff Horner. Horner will succeed Chief Jim Barlow, who will officially retire on Jan. 7, 2022, after a 38-year career with CPD, the last five years as chief of police.

Horner has been with CPD since 1994. We sat down with Horner to discuss his beginnings in public safety, his working up the ranks and the direction that CPD will go in under his leadership. We wish Chief Barlow all the best in his retirement and thank him for his service to Carmel and the best of luck to incoming Chief Horner as he takes over the responsibilities as Carmel Chief of Police.

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The organizers of Carmel’s Festival of Ice and Winter Games are thrilled to announce that these events will return to the Arts & Design District and Carter Green this January and February!

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hile the ice carving component of the Festival of Ice was held last year during the pandemic, the other exciting events that complement the ice carving contests were canceled as were the Carmel Winter Games that take place on the ice rink.

I spoke with Meg Gates Osborne, founder of MEG & Associates and Carmel event manager, about what attendees

and participants can look forward to after the new year.

THE 2022 FESTIVAL OF ICE Carmel’s Festival of Ice features carving demonstrations by professional ice carvers on Saturday, Jan. 8 in the Arts & Design District.

“We have eight professional [ice] carvers coming in from all over the Midwest for the weekend,” Osborne said. “We’ll

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have eight locations—top to bottom—on Main Street from Woody’s to Bub’s, and they will carve these gorgeous carvings.

Hopefully, it will be cold enough so that they don’t melt immediately!”

This event offers the ice carvers two chances to win prize money: public and judge voting!

The following day, Sunday, Jan. 9, the ice carvers will be demonstrating their remarkable talent at Carter Green.

“There will be a carving competition at Carter Green, and people can vote for ‘People’s Choice,’” Osborne stated. “We’ll have tickets for people to put in their favorite carver’s box. It’s really amazing to watch and a really fun event. We put these colored gel lights under the pedestals that the Carmel Street Department made, and they light up the ice and make the sculptures really sparkle.”

Returning to heat things up a bit, Carmel Fire Department’s firehouses will compete in a chili cook-off on Sunday. At the time of publishing, the schedule had not been firmly set. See

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“The Hometown Hero-Olympics features the Carmel Police Department against the Carmel Fire Department, which is hysterically fun,” Osborne said.

“There is a moving trophy between the two [agencies], and they take great pride in winning it. The Carmel Winter Games are great fun and bring a lot of energy to the Ice at Carter Green.”

For a complete schedule of upcoming events and to register your Winter Games teams, visit theiceatcartergreen.com.

the Carmel website for updated details and a complete schedule of events.

“We’re really excited to have the chili cook-off back,” Osborne expressed.

“Each [CFD] firehouse has its own ‘secret’ chili recipe, and there is a revolving trophy that makes its way around to all the different firehouses who win the competition.”

There will be a DJ and ticketed ice skating throughout the event as well.

SENSORY SKATE DAYS There will be designated Sensory Skate Days at the Ice at Carter Green on Jan. 25 and Feb. 22, 2022, from 5–7 p.m. These events “provide a sensory-friendly event for families, especially designed for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder or any type of special need.”

“It’s a really special night for the families,” Osborne said. “This year, we’ll have a craft for the kids where they can make these little hats that they can wear. It’s a very calming environment for the kids.

We also have these wooden ‘walkers’ where the kids can sit inside and be pushed across the ice without having to put on skates. But they still get the feeling of being on the ice. Wheelchairs are allowed up on the ice, and the parents can push the wheelchairs around on the ice, so the kids have that sensation of being on the ice. It’s one of my all-time favorite events.”

THE CARMEL WINTER GAMES Get your families, friends or colleagues together and register your teams today! The Carmel Winter Games are designed to encourage physical activity and a bit of healthy competition through on-ice, nonskating competitive games like human hungry hippo, human curling and an ice trike relay!

The Winter Games kick off on Friday, Feb. 11 with the Hometown Hero-Olympics and continue the following day, Saturday, Feb. 12, with the competitive group games.

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Living The Weller Life in 2022 and Beyond Writer // Lorraine Aiken • Photography // Submitted

January presents new beginnings, opportunities to change habits, begin a healthy routine, and prompt hope for a new year of joy and positive possibility. For residents of The Stratford, a senior living community in The Village of WestClay, the new year is an opportunity to continue to live a Weller Life. What is a Weller Life? At the core of The Stratford’s retirement experience, The Weller Life is a philosophical belief that participating in a well-rounded retirement lifestyle with excellent wellness programs, social activities, dining experiences, and compassionate care services will help seniors live a longer, healthier, happier life.

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Should the needs of residents change, they won’t need to relocate as they’ll be at home in a community of friends and have access to the care they require.

Each cottage home and villa apartment at The Stratford includes maintenance-free living services. For those snowy Indiana days, snow removal services make it easy to get out of the house.

Throughout the year, the community’s facilities team performs full maintenance and repairs on homes, while housekeeping, deep cleaning, security, and transportation services are also included.

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Director, he works in conjunction with Wellness and Culinary Directors to plan daily, weekly, and monthly social events, clubs and trips. Bringing residents together to participate in activities helps to shape the vibrant network of neighbors and friends within the community.

For each event that is planned, Green is doing it with his residents interests in mind. “There are two simple rules you have to follow when you are planning activities,” Green says “Know the people that are coming so you know what they like, and when I have fun, others will have fun. So make sure to do things that you like, but also align with what they enjoy participating in.”

Wellness plays an integral role in the lives of residents and Director, Heather Mairn is at the helm of the national award-winning wellness programming.

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First show: Friday, Dec. 31 Doors 5:00 p.m., Start 7:30 p.m.

Second show: Friday, Dec. 31 Doors 9:30p.m., Start 10:45p.m.

Join us as we ring in the new year with the award-winning Melissa Manchester! Feinstein’s is pleased to host their New Year’s Eve Celebration with this legendary artist with a career that has spanned over three decades.

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anchester’s tremendously successful solo career brought her critical and commercial acclaim. The “Midnight Blue” singer received her first Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal Performance in 1979 for the Peter Allen/Carole Bayer Sager-penned “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” winning the Grammy in that category four years later for “You Should Hear How She Talks About You.” Manchester has also had her songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack, Dusty Springfield, Alison Krauss, Kenny Loggins and many others. Two songs she performed, “Through the Eyes of Love” and “The Promise,” were nominated for Oscars in the same year. She has written tunes for several other films, including “The Great Mouse Detective,” “Lady and the Tramp II,” “Dirty Girl” and “Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls.”

Ticket prices include admission to reserved seating as well as a complimentary champagne toast. Visit feinsteinshc.com for more information!

Janelle Morrison: You presented for Bette Midler at The Kennedy Center Honors recently. How amazing was that experience?

Melissa Manchester: It was the most stunning experience! It was true American splendor to be among so many spectacularly talented people and to be able to pay tribute to my friend of such a long time—Bette Midler—where the nation says, “Job well done” effectively. It was just incredibly moving. And to have everybody there in such grand spirits was just breathtaking, really.

JM: Since we last spoke, you preformed at The Center for the Performing Arts along with your dear friend Michael Feinstein. What an emotional night!

I cried so much that night, and I don’t cry in public. It was so moving and so magical.

Thank you for that wonderful night and an unforgettable return to live performances in the Palladium.

Manchester: Thank you so much!

I really appreciate that. It was the first time I had performed since the beginning of the pandemic. The audience was so deeply connected, and you could feel it on stage. It was really thrilling.

We are living in peculiar times, but we are alive and very productive—there is much to celebrate.

JM: You were officially inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame in November. What does that mean to you?

Manchester: Being inducted into the [Great American Songbook] Hall of Fame

as a songwriter is such a specific and grand honor to be in the company of the late, great Sammy Cahn and Billy Strayhorn. This is a rarified crowd and to be recognized and to be deserving of that was really amazing. To feel like what you’ve done for such a long time gets a pat on the back and a rousing chorus of “Job well done” is not lost on me. And I am deeply humbled and very appreciative.

JM: I’ve listened to the re-envisioned sixth single from your 24th album “RE:VIEW,” “Come in From the Rain”—a classic from your earlier repertoire. I’m having a tough time deciding which [version] is my favorite.

The song has touched me at different times in my life. It is a powerful song.

Manchester: The unexpected magic of this particular project—”RE:VIEW”— is that these songs were written and recorded such a long time ago and have grown into this moment. When I first decided to create “RE:VIEW,” I wanted to do so because of the pandemic and wanted to do it very slowly. Rolling out every single very slowly with an accompanying video so that when [the pandemic] is all over, we will see sort of a travel log of what it’s been like during these times.

“Come in From the Rain” was released at this time of year with the holidays and the new year, and at a point in my life that I am filled with a great sense of forgiveness for myself for the follies of youth and for other people who

I really dig Carmel!

It’s a beautiful and visionary city.”

Editor’s Note: This is our second interview with Melissa Manchester this year. We are honored to help welcome her back to Carmel, Indiana! Don’t miss this opportunity to ring in 2022 with this award-winning icon!

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also struggled with their follies. After what we have been through, there is a deep experience of welcoming people back into your life and being back in community with people for which we are so hardwired. This song is much more hopeful in this moment because I’ve lived so much longer and there’s so much more strength and backbone in the performance of the song and in this rendition.

There’s no guessing around anymore.

I know who I am, and the openheartedness of this song comes from deep and hard-won wisdom.

JM: Indeed, this has been a time of reflection and re-evaluation of what we stand for and who we are to other people. As we begin a new year, I hope that 2022 is prosperous and positive for our nation and for the world over.

Manchester: One of the things that I experienced during this slog through

2020, among other things, was this unexpected gift to not only look at our society but see it. And to see what is beautiful, what is broken and what’s never been finished—the parts of the promise of our democracy that need to have attention paid to them and no longer [are] kicked down the road. We’re in a deep moment of reckoning that is going to last for a long time. And there are folks who get really cranky at the thought of that, and then there are folks who are very still and say, “We’re ready, and we’re ready to have those hard discussions.” We’re ready to take these deep actions in terms of love being an action.

I hope that 2022 is powerful, prosperous and certainly healthier for all of us. I hope that people can continue to get back to being in community with each other.

JM: This time, we will be seeing you at Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael, right

next door to the Palladium. It’s a vastly different environment and is an intimate venue in which you can really connect with the energy generated by yourself and the audience. And you’re coming not just any day of the week, but you will be ringing in the new year with us. How lucky are we?

Manchester: I’m thrilled to be part of the new year celebration. First of all, the room is so gorgeous. We are doing two shows, and I’m really excited to get people primed for the countdown. I really dig Carmel! It’s a beautiful and visionary city. Your Mayor Brainard has done a remarkable rethinking of what a city can be, hasn’t he? I tell lots of people about Carmel. I’m thrilled to be coming back there, and I’m thrilled to be in Michael’s room—my dear Michael Feinstein.

I’m thrilled to help celebrate and raise high the rooftop for New Year’s Eve and to share all kinds of music and play all kinds of videos to sing along to. I’m really looking forward to it!

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MAGICIAN DAVID WILLIAMSON THE TARKINGTON // SAT, JAN. 22, 2 P.M. & 8P.M. ET Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Courtesy of The Center For the Performing Arts

A BORN SHOWMAN AND ACCOMPLISHED SLEIGHT-OF-HAND ARTIST, DAVID WILLIAMSON DAZZLES AUDIENCES WITH A BLEND OF HEART-STOPPING MAGIC AND SIDESPLITTING HILARITY.

He has been featured on ABC’s “Champions of Magic,” where he appeared with Princess Stephanie as he performed his miracles at various locations in and around Monaco. Williamson has also co-starred in several top-rated prime-time network specials, including CBS’ “Magicians’ Favorite Magicians,” NBC’s “Houdini: Unlocking His Mysteries” and NBC’s “World’s Greatest Magic III.” He was seen recently on The CW’s “Masters of Illusion” TV series as well as “America’s Got Talent.”

Williamson has developed TV shows for Walt Disney Productions and ABC, as well as consulting on TV specials for illusionists David Copperfield and David Blaine. His bestselling magic book, “Williamson’s Wonders,” has been translated into three languages.

Williamson is also featured as the Ringmaster in the exciting show “Circus 1903” currently touring the world and returning to the UK for a holiday tour. He is also a frequent favorite Guest Entertainer on Disney Cruise Lines.

Recently, Williamson was honored with the Performance Fellowship by the Academy of Magical Arts and Sciences at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. In 2017, Williamson was named The Magic Castle’s Magician of the Year. He was also recently awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership by the UK’s Magic Circle, the world’s premier magical society.

Janelle Morrison: I believe life is about experiences. I think it’s a great time to be reminded of the wonderment and laughter we enjoyed as children and experience those again as adults. That’s where live shows and entertainers like you come in.

David Williamson: That’s the message I’ve been giving interviews for the circus that we’re taking back to London [this holiday season] after a year off. The message is “cir-

cus” is community and “circus” is a celebration of life, so it’s a positive message.

JM: I’d like to take a stroll down memory lane and ask you to walk me through the early days of your magic career.

Williamson: As a kid, I was fascinated with magic, like most kids are. I got a magic set when I was 8 years old. When everybody else let go of the magic tricks and moved on

to football or other pursuits in life, I never let [magic] go.

We had a school magician, Walter Shepard, who was a wonderful magician in the Dayton area who performed for all the elementary schools and had a wonderful school show. It was fantastic. He played the part. He had a goatee and a painted van with doves and hats on it. He was a “professional” magician. My teacher let me go backstage with Shepard the Magician, and

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In fourth grade, we had a reader about Harry Houdini. I was fascinated with Houdini. He was a real-life superhero that captured the imagination of any kid. I learned a little sleight-of-hand trick, and I learned it pretty well. My teacher said, “David, you did that pretty well and maybe someday, you’ll be a magician,” and that pathway was burnt into my brain at that point.

JM: I read that another book, “The Amateur Magician’s Handbook,” also inspired you to become a magician. Do you still have a copy of that?

Williamson: I have several copies! I give them away to young [aspiring] magicians and kids that I give lessons to. I pick copies up whenever I can find a second-hand edition or paperback version.

It’s a fantastic book that gives you the basics of sleight-of-hand tricks. There are chapters on coin magic and sleight-of-hand with balls, rings and handkerchiefs.

JM: In addition to Houdini, who were some of your heroes in magic growing up?

Williamson: My heroes in magic weren’t the TV magicians necessarily. I appreciated them and always got excited when they were on TV. Mark Wilson had a show in the ’70s called the “Magic Circus,” and there were magicians like Harry Blackstone and David Copperfield, but my heroes are the blue-collar magicians who do it for a living and are grinding out shows at all kinds of venues.

These are the sleight-of-hand guys who are inventors and tinkerers, and on top of that, they are skilled with their hands and have that theatrical flair you have to have.

You have to be many things to be a good magician and not just have one skill. You have to be an inventor, tinkerer, a bit of a

scientist and artist and a lot of a showman.

You have to make the unreal real for the audiences, and a lot of magicians forget that in their careers—they just want to be a personality or want to be clever.

Ohio, and we have a nonprofit horse-riding school, The Riding Centre, where they do therapeutic riding. We do a lot of fundraisers, and I’m heavily involved. My wife is on the board, and my kids grew up helping out there.

JM: After you return to the U.S. and arrive in Carmel this January, what can we expect at your show at The Tarkington?

Williamson: My standard thing is to expect the unexpected. It’s not going to be your father’s magic show. We’re going to have fun, and it’s going to be a celebration. It’s pure fun and interaction, and it’s going to be buoyant!

I want to have a light, fun, magical, jaw-dropping, hilarious evening. I am going to use spectators from the audience. Everybody is going to participate from their seats on some of the things, but it’s going to be old-school magic and a lot of fun.

I’m building the show especially for this event. It’s the first theater show that I’ve done since the pandemic began so I’m starting from scratch and building a special performance, so this will be fun for me as well.

JM: Thank you for sharing. To learn more about the The Riding Centre and how to make donations, please visit theridingcentre.org. Now, last but not least, you can take my last question and answer it philosophically or simply— however you please.

JM: I like to ask my interviewees what organizations or nonprofits they support and would like to plug?

Williamson: At the local level, for many years, I’ve produced shows in Yellow Springs,

When I was a kid, I remember watching people like David Copperfield and thinking it was pure magic. As we get older, life teaches us to be cynical, and we begin to doubt what we can’t see or explain. As a journalist, I’m a fact finder, but I still find enjoyment in allowing my senses to be “challenged” by a talented magician. In that instance, I enjoy not knowing if it’s “real” or not. It’s not for me to say.

So, David, I’ll ask you—is magic real?

Williamson: Absolutely. There’s an old quote [by British novelist Roald Dahl], “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

It’s real for those who believe, and I definitely believe in magic.

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We are pleased to feature on the cover of our last issue of 2021 Carmel Police Department’s (CPD) incoming chief of police, Jeff Horner. Horner will succeed Chief Jim Barlow, who will officially retire on Jan. 7, 2022, after a 38-year career with CPD, the last five years as chief of police. Mayor Jim Brainard appointed Deputy Chief Jeff Horner as Barlow’s replacement.

Horner has been with CPD since 1994. We sat down with Horner to discuss his beginnings in public safety, his working up the ranks and the direction that CPD will go in under his leadership. Taking Horner’s place as deputy chief of administration will be Lt. Joe Bickel, who has also been with CPD since 1994 and was appointed by Horner on Dec. 14, 2021.

A Calling to Serve and Protect

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orner received his bachelor’s degree from Ball State University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. He began his career with the Carmel Police Department in January 1994.

Prior to all of that, Horner shared that he first realized his interest in public safety at the age of 12. He grew up in Pennsylvania listening to his uncle’s captivating stories about being police officer.

Horner and his family moved to Indiana when he was 17, and upon graduating from Yorktown High School, Horner went to Ball State University, where he studied criminal justice and sociology.

“I always had an inquisitive personality where I wanted to see what was going on and why it was going on,” Horner shared. “As a police officer, you kind of get that back scene pass and you can find out what’s going on and why it’s happening.”

Horner added with sincerity, “I also wanted to help people. And while I was studying criminal justice and sociology [at Ball State], it furthered my interest in this line of work.”

The Development of a Future Police Chief Before the onset of Googling job openings on the internet, Horner had to seek

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employment opportunities the “old-fashioned” analog way.

“I was at the Ball State library looking through this big book of police agencies in the state and made phone calls to see if any of those [agencies] were hiring,” Horner said. “At that time, Carmel happened to be one of the places that I drove to, picked up an application and applied to.”

The City of Carmel at that time was a population of around 30,000, and Mayor Brainard had yet to be elected.

Horner added, “It was a much smaller community back then. There might have been 47–48 policer officers [at CPD] when I came here.”

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us more transparent, such as, we have an online and interactive traffic dashboard that details all of traffic stops.”

Horner said this dashboard allows people to look at things like gender, race and different types of traffic stops.

“All of our policies and procedures are now forward facing and are available to the public to pull up and review,” Horner stated.

“We have also made all of ‘use of force’ data and complaint data available to the public on Carmel’s website [carmel.in.gov].”

CPD Expansion and Renovation Project Upon Brainard’s election and as the city began to undergo a massive transformation and population increase, it was necessary for CPD to keep up the pace and expand its roster.

“As you can imagine, as the city grew, the [police] department had to follow suit,” Horner said. “There was a lot of hiring in the early 1990s and into the late ’90s. As part of that rapid hiring, a lot of us younger officers stepped up into roles that we probably wouldn’t have had, if not for the fact we were growing so quickly.”

Horner spent the first 13 years on the department in the Operations Division, where he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He then spent several years supervising the School Resource Unit, acting as the department’s Public Information Officer and managing special events.

In January 2017, he was appointed to major of the Operations Division and then to deputy chief of administration in 2018.

Horner served as one of the department’s defensive tactics instructors for 25 years and 17 years on the SWAT team, six of those years as the SWAT commander.

Evolving With the Times When asked what some of the more significant changes to the way CPD officers do their jobs are since he joined the department, Horner said, “When I came on, we didn’t have computers in our

cars. We had radios. And you found your way around the city with a big three-ring binder that had all the [city’s] maps in it.

Dispatch would give you a code, and you look it up on the map. Quite different from nowadays.”

Today, every single CPD officer has a laptop in their car, GPS, in-car police dash camera, and police body cameras.

Horner also spoke about the department’s national accreditations that it has earned and why he thinks it makes CPD a stronger and more professional department.

“I think, internally, these accreditations keep us all very professional and very well trained,” Horner stated.

“The percentage of [public safety] agencies that are accredited is pretty small in this country. We think of ourselves as a ‘profession’ and being accredited helps us get to that [higher] level of professionalism.”

Horner also spoke about the importance of CPD’s transparency to the community.

“That is something that is very important to us,” Horner emphasized. “We do realize that there’s been a reputation or a belief among some members of the community that we’re not [transparent]. I think one area that we’ve failed at in the past and have tried to be better at—under Chief Barlow’s direction—is letting people know what we’re doing and to be as transparent as possible. We have nothing to hide, and we’ve created things that make

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As previously reported, CPD is planning a renovation to its existing building as well as an expansion that will provide the department the necessary space to accommodate its growth.

“As the community continues to grow, the police station needs to grow along with it,” Horner said. “We are constantly hiring, and we’ve been out of space. We have people working off-site, and we’ve got storage units that rent out throughout the city to store items that no longer fit in here. We need to expand our investigators division, and this building expansion will allow all of that to happen.”

In addition, the expansion will allow the court to move from city hall to the new building as well, providing more space for the city court and enhanced security.

“This project will more than double our size, and we will have an awesome training room that can also be used for community events and our community outreach programs,” Horner shared. “We will be able to increase our abilities and will be able to better serve the community.”

The renovations will be completed in multiple phases, and the expansion construction on the site where the Huntington Bank is located will break ground in July of 2022.

Paying Homage to Chief Barlow Throughout his career with CPD, Horner has worked with and/or reported directly to Chief Barlow, and Horner attributes much of his development, throughout his ranks and now as incoming chief of police, to the lessons he’s learned from Barlow.

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“Chief Barlow and I have a unique history because I’ve worked with him numerous times,” Horner shared. “We’ve worked together a lot throughout the years, and we were on the SWAT team together. He was a commander when I was on the team. And for the last five years, he’s been chief and I’ve been deputy chief of administration. You learn a lot from your leaders, but I can definitely say he’s been one of those positive influences on my career.”

Horner learned how to navigate department budgets and effectively run a first-class police department.

“The last few years have been really interesting because I’ve learned aspects of this job such as how the budgets work and the training and equipment purchases that we have to be responsible for. He’s taught me how to navigate through all those things correctly and how to keep the department running efficiently.”

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“Yes, I am hopeful,” Horner said with conviction. “The last couple of years have been a struggle for law enforcement, and I’d like to think we [CPD] have navigated through those couple of years fairly successfully. There’s a lot of initiatives that we put in motion that I’d like to continue.

We have a wellness program set up for our officers, and so as we see more people

retiring and getting out of the profession, it’s even more important to keep the ones we have healthy for a longer time. We have an athletic trainer that works here and helps with injuries as well as preventing them. We talk about financial health and mental health.”

Horner said that the department has resources and a mental health therapist available to all officers who may be struggling with an experience and can do so confidentially.

Horner concluded, “Currently, our department is approved for 143 [sworn] officers, and we currently have 137. We are in the process of filling those spots.

I’m also hopeful because I’ve seen success here when there’s other parts of our country that are struggling with the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve. If you hire good people, pay them well, offer them good benefits and spend a lot of time training them and providing them with proper equipment so they can do their job professionally, I think you eliminate the possibility of mistakes happening.”

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As we put an end cap on 2021, a productive year for the city of Carmel amid a pandemic, I spoke with Mayor Brainard and Carmel Redevelopment Commission Director Henry Mestetsky about a few of the city’s more prominent and influential redevelopment projects that are either wrapping up in 2022 or will be started at some point in the new year.

THE STATE OF THE CITY The mayor shared his thoughts on the importance of the city’s continued trajectory of redeveloping so that Carmel remains a formidable competitor on the national and global stages.

“It is important to recognize that we are still coming out of a global pandemic and supply chains have been impacted but the economy is especially good for Carmel,” Brainard said. “We’re at roughly 2% unemployment.”

Currently, Carmel is home to approximately 130 corporate headquarters of national and international significance.

Brainard added, “Carmel invests so much in making it a beautiful city, and our strategy as a city continues unabated throughout the pandemic to make Carmel a place of safety, great public schools and libraries, and a great city with beautiful amenities that honors the arts, is clean and friendly and that welcomes everybody from whatever background they come from. We can’t compete if don’t do that, and not only is it the right thing to do, but it’s also what America is all about. We have to be inclusive, and that is important to us.”

When asked what some of his administration’s greatest achievements have been that he is most proud of, the mayor replied, “We continue to make Carmel a competitive place around the globe. We continue to market the city as a great place to live around the globe and continue to innovate and look for better ways of doing things.”

Brainard continued, “Making the switch from a car suburb to walkable safe downtown and anything that contributes to that effort and people from all backgrounds coming together, celebrating events and holidays, music and the arts is all very gratifying.”

WHAT ARE THE TAX BENEFITS TO REDEVELOPMENT? When asked why the city continues to improve its infrastructure and redevelop and

innovate particularly within its urban core, Brainard said, “We’re putting cars underground in parking structures, which allows us to build so much more on the lot. We don’t want to build too high and won’t go over four, five, maybe six stories. Remember, property taxes are paid per square foot, so if we go up five levels, that’s five times [the revenue] if we build on 100% of that lot and not just 5–10% of the lot. That could be a 50–60% increase. We’re building a great tax base, and we’re doing it without incurring a great deal of expense except for the parking garages, and we’ve figured out how to pay for that. We’re able to go to the developers that are building those buildings to sign for those loans, so the taxpayers aren’t on the hook for those parking structures.”

PROJECTS UNDERWAY OR TO COMMENCE IN 2022 A few of the more noteworthy projects beginning in 2022 are the expansion and renovation of the Carmel Police Department and new city court as well as the start of construction on the Carmel Clay Historical Foundation—a collaboration between the Carmel Redevelopment Commission (CRC) and the township.

“We’re beginning work on what I call the Monon Boulevard treatments in the urban part of the Monon, south of the City Center Drive tunnel,” Brainard stated. “We have the Mélange project over by the fire station, and we have Proscenium II coming online. That will be right across the street from Proscenium I, where the former Walgreen’s building is. We’re also working on the 1st On Main project on the northeast corner where the bank used to be.”

MÉLANGE In conjunction with the city of Carmel, Onyx+East announced its $30 million project on the Monon Greenway next to Carmel City Center.

Mélange is defined as a mixture or a medley— a reference to the vibrant neighborhood and the lifestyle of living Downtown Carmel and the array of home styles that will be offered here.

Mélange by Onyx+East is a private residential community offering multistory brownstones and single-level condominiums. Located in the heart of Carmel, Mélange delivers a medley of unparalleled urban access.

CIVIC SQUARE PARKING GARAGE The Carmel Redevelopment Commission and F.A. Wilhelm Construction Company, Inc. will be building the new 303-space Civic Square Parking Garage. Of those parking spaces, 255 will be public space for use by the adjacent businesses and the expanded police station and courthouse. And 48 of the Mélange City Square Parking Garage spaces will be private for owner-occupied condos that will line the west and north sides of the garage and be developed as part of a future CRC project. The garage is going to be the most technologically advanced garage ever built by the CRC, complete with electric vehicle charging station rough-ins, a solar panel array on the roof and a car counter to gauge occupancy. The architecture will be traditional to match the surrounding area, and the facade is expected to feature several murals. Construction is expected to start in January 2022 and be complete in mid-2022.

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1ST ON MAIN The City of Carmel and Lauth Group announced in October of 2021 details of this public/private partnership to build a multimillion-dollar mixeduse development on the northeast corner of Range Line Road and Main Street in the Arts & Design District. 1st On Main, formerly known as Lot One, will include a four-story office building with first-floor restaurant space and a private rooftop terrace, eight luxury condominiums, 35 luxury apartment units, a 310-space parking garage with public access and a community-gathering plaza featuring the existing Rotary Clock. Construction is expected to be complete by mid-2023.

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THE SIGNATURE AT CARMEL The Signature at Carmel will be a residential community offering thoughtfully designed studio, one- and two-bedroom rental apartment homes and eight two-bedroom, for-sale condominiums.

Also, part of The Signature development will include 16,100 square feet of ground floor retail space. The City of Carmel is also a partner in the project by allowing the developers to use Tax Incremental Financing bonds to build a 389-space public parking garage as part of the project.

The Signature at Carmel is located at the northeast corner of Main and Old Meridian streets, just north of Bru Burger Bar and Rize restaurant and just across the street from Rosie’s, Bar Louis, Verde and Sugar Creek Winery.

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“This is an exciting project because it has both multifamily and for-sale condos as part of the project,” Mestetsky stated. “It will feature a vast parking garage that will be for public use that will be above-grade and wrapped by multifamily and for-sale units.”

Mestetsky continued, “This is an $80 million project, and one of my favorite things to always talk about is how these projects raise the assessed value per acre. So, this land used to be assessed at $330,000 an acre, and once it’s built, the assessed value of the land will jump to $9.5 million. If you remember the school referenda captures taxes off of all property, and all that is new money for the schools that they would never otherwise have if this land had just stayed what it was.”

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REPUBLIC AIRWAYS CAMPUS If you’ve driven by the Republic Airways campus off of the U.S. 31 and 126th corridor recently, you’ve seen considerable progress has been made in the transformation of those parcels.

Mayor Brainard shared, “We’re working on phase three of that site. There’s one remaining corporate pad, and we’re looking at some of [Republic Airway’s] suppliers and companies that might benefit from being right next to Republic.

We’ve had some preliminary meetings with people and will have more to talk about later next year.”

While discussions among residents express concerns for the percentage of for-lease units versus for-sale units being built in Carmel, Mestetsky countered with, “Apart from the Republic [Airways] project, every project coming out of the CRC has for-sale options. All of these projects increase assessed value, which means more money goes to the schools, and it’s all about making Carmel vibrant—project by project.”

For a complete list of current city projects, visit carmel.in.gov and click on “City Projects.”

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