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INDIANAPOLIS — The city of Indianapolis says it wants to buy the Eleven Park site from the Keystone Group due to human remains left behind in the former Greenlawn Cemetery.
Indianapolis-based Keystone Group is working with Indy Eleven to develop the former Diamond Chain manufacturing site on West Street and Kentucky Avenue into a 20,000-seat stadium, hotel, office, apartments, retail and public spaces. However, the site was once the location of several cemeteries, and the city says hundreds of remains are on those grounds, some of which have been found in recent months during the construction process.Now, in a letter to the Keystone Group, the city says it believes as many as 650 remains are still located on one acre of the site, which could cost $12 million to remove.
In 2023, the city gave the group $2 million under a pre-development agreement. The city now wants to buy the remaining portion of the site at “fair market value.”In the letter, the city says they want to right the wrongs committed more than a century ago and respect the history of the site.WATCH | What does the future look like for Indy Eleven?
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