READI 2.0 Project Inquiry Form

Strategy 1a. Invest in infrastructure and facilities to support attraction and growth in high technology areas of opportunity that will further develop the region’s high-wage sectors, including, but not limited to, microelectronics, hypersonics, biomedical, electrification of vehicles, and emerging technologies like carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

Strategy 1b. Establish the Indiana Uplands as a national center for microelectronics research, testing, and development, leveraging the region’s history of leadership in DoD microelectronics to create a highly aligned ecosystem that gains national prominence in areas including radiation-hardened microelectronics and advanced packaging.

Strategy 1c. Support research and development, innovation, and competitiveness through unique facilities and infrastructure that advance existing and emerging technologies in the Uplands.       

Strategy 1d. Expand and develop talent and quality of place strategies that support the talent development, retention, and attraction requirements of local employers in advanced technologies clusters.

Strategy 2a. Invest in housing projects aligned with high-growth sector employers, fostering talent retention and attraction. Encourage multi-family, missing middle, and small lot single-family developments. Focus on expanding infrastructure to facilitate housing growth, ensuring sustainable development that activates future housing endeavors.

Strategy 2b. Support projects that bolster quality early learning through increased access to high-quality programs. Focus on capacity-building efforts, including infrastructure development for early care and education programs.

Strategy 2c. Facilitate improvements to transportation infrastructure to enhance the mobility of persons and freight through improvements in regional airports and corridor connectivity. Foster initiatives that contribute to the development of infrastructure amenities.

Strategy 2d. Foster downtown improvements that nurture small businesses and create downtown housing. Promote blight elimination programs to create safer communities, facilitate property redevelopment, and return properties to the tax rolls. Develop community gathering spaces and create amenities that will attract new residents and tourists to the region.

Strategy 2e. Improve access to healthcare, both physical and through telehealth options. Invest in healthcare and recreation facilities to promote a healthy lifestyle to support a thriving and resilient workforce.

Strategy 3a. Implement or expand education and workforce initiatives through the development of a robust PK–16 STEM ecosystem.

Strategy 3b. Grow postsecondary projects to align with employment opportunities in the region’s high-growth sectors.

Strategy 3c. Develop sector-specific training facilities to meet the needs of high-wage employers.

Strategy 3d. Advance talent attraction and marketing initiatives to grow population and workforce. (Match only)

Strategy 4a. Grow the livability of cities and towns to be more attractive to a diverse population as defined by age, race, and ethnicity. Create vibrant community arts and celebrations by investing in new and existing community gathering spaces and buildings that can be leveraged for creative entrepreneurship activities and/or events, cultural, and festival offerings.

Strategy 4b. Attract and retain the creative class and the businesses that employ them, including visual/performing and literary arts, filmmaking, architecture, graphic design, and marketing.

Strategy 4c. Develop a high-tech entrepreneurial ecosystem through the continued deployment of high-speed broadband. Provide access to creative tools and the knowledge needed to innovate and foster entrepreneurial connections.

Strategy 4d. Convene a regional arts and cultural task force and conduct a landscape assessment of existing cultural, creative, and physical assets that have the potential to grow community vitality, talent attraction, retention, and new visitors to the region.