The City of Indianapolis is preparing to develop the former Indiana Women's Prison, which was also Indianapolis Re-Entry Educational Facility, at 401 N. Randolph Street ( https://www.indy.gov/activity/indiana-womens-prison ). The email for giving feedback on what to do with the site is DMDLand@indy.gov. 

Hi, I live near the former prison and have woods across an alley from it that I am open to integrating with a sustainable development. I urge stakeholders to tell the Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development to make the former into an ecovillage. Greg

For sake of environmental sustainability, I urge that the highest focus of its development be on transformation into an ecovillage. The main aspects I have in mind are 
- a farm, 
- mixed-use design, and 
- solar and other relatively clean technologies. 

The farm would supply food and employ the site's occupants and neighbors.

The mixed-use design would be to minimize need for automobiles by easing access to resources. Again, that'd include agriculture. A store could vend and otherwise distribute production from the agriculture. Other examples of suitable aspects of mixed-use could be a thrift store, a bicycle shop, a pre-school, a day care center, medical services,  mental health services, repair shops for clothing, shoes and other household items, a hardware store, and a household hazardous waste collection site that is much easier to access than the narrow hours of the current system. 

Regarding the technologies, examples to have there are generation of solar electricity, solar thermal water heating, solar thermal indoor heating, solar clothes drying, rainwater collection and greenhouse structures. 

By the way, in support of these three aspects, having a park and creek there would be nice. 

Resources on developing an ecovillage include Arcosanti in Arizona and Ecocity Builders https://ecocitybuilders.org/ .