22 INDIANAPOLIS REGIONAL CENTER PLAN 2020 PLANNING DOWNTOWN�fS FUTURE TODAY LIVING DOWNTOWN of development projects Downtown including residential projects.  IDI works with developers, funders, realtors and resident groups to ensure that Downtown has the appropriate mix of housing to remain strong and growing.  IDI  helps market Downtown to potential customers.  IDI's website includes very extensive information on Regional Center development, including residential projects. Private developers have been responsible for the development of much of the market rate housing in the Regional Center.  Examples are the conversion of the upper floors of the former Block's Department Store into 163 apartments, the construction of the 62 Packard condominiums at New Jersey and Ohio streets and the construction of Watermark Homes on the historic Central Canal. There are another 24 neighborhood-based organizations whose boundaries include portions of the Regional Center and more than 50 additional organizations adjacent to it.  These organizations range in size and interest from block clubs to historic area organizations, traditional neighborhood organizations and umbrella-type associations that cover very large areas and undertake a variety of their own projects and programs.  Many of these groups have prepared strategic, neighborhood or other similar plans for their areas.  Many of the goals and objectives of those plans are similar to those developed for the Regional Center Plan process and include aspirations such as: improving housing through increased rehab assistance, increasing repair and maintenance assistance for home owners, achieving additional compatible infill housing, achieving racial and economic diversity in the neighborhoods, increasing affordable housing including both renter- and owner-occupied, gaining more neighborhood-based ownership of investment properties, increasing attention to historic character of neighborhoods and housing, expanding community spirit and volunteerism, increasing partnerships with area human services providers and expanding commercial offerings. MAP LV-2 LEGEND Selected Residential Projects Lockerbie Terrace O'Malia's Grocery, an example of neighborhood retail St. Joseph Townhomes 110 E Washington condominiums