Lindsey Cornett | IPS School Board Candidate for District 4, Why Indy is Great | 159

I don't know that we talked about this in our first conversation, but I don't know that I've heard...

I guess I have heard some people say something similar to you about local first love from residents here in Indy.

But I think like...

there is kind of a disconnect in like maybe the downtown proper area district, I suppose.

I mean, I work there every day.

I work for an organization that is specifically focused on downtown.

And while I really like try to advocate for a lot of local, like investing in local businesses, trying to get local businesses into more areas in the downtown district, it feels to me, and maybe this is just a biased perspective, but like, there isn't as much love for local as there is for who can we import in for a big event like the Super Bowl, like Taylor Swift.

And

so I appreciate your perspective of having felt kind of that love for the people that are already based here.

Yeah, that's that's an interesting distinction.

I actually just saw someone was talking about Bottleworks on.

Oh, Michael Zarek.

I think he posted about Bottleworks and a Bottleworks advertisement he had seen that was really emphasizing how much parking they had.

And in the comments of that, my friend Laura said, like, that's because places like this are built with tourists in mind and not residents.

And I thought that

was so interesting.

I really had not thought about it in quite that way before.

And your point about the heiress tour and the Super Bowl and the Super Bowl happened long before we moved here.

But

sure,

everybody still talks about it as this like

it was a huge, yeah,

this huge thing.

Which is really interesting.

So yeah, that's an interesting distinction that I hadn't quite thought about.