Glendale Window Treatment, Indianapolis, IN

Local Window Treatment Experience in Glendale

A 1950s residential wave around a center that shrank

The residential streets here were built out in the same 1950s and 1960s wave that produced the shopping center, which places them squarely in the shallow jamb regime that covers 43.5 percent of this city's housing. The dominant Marion County stock of that period is ranch, minimal traditional and split level, predominantly single story with split levels mixed in, and that's what the streets around Keystone and 62nd carry. No home count, price band or style inventory was published for the residential area specifically, so we're plain that our expectations come from the era rather than from a Glendale specific record.

The center itself is a different building type and a different job. The original 685,000 square feet designed by Victor Gruen was frequently the first local branch location away from established flagship stores downtown, and it lost tenants over decades to The Fashion Mall at Keystone two miles north, which is why the site was rebuilt rather than extended. The current 393,002 square foot open air center is owned by Kite Realty and anchored by Target, Lowe's, Landmark Theatres and an Indianapolis Public Library branch, which is an unusual civic and retail combination and the thing residents use to place the whole area.

Shallow jambs on a cardinal grid, plus storefront work

The center sits at Keystone Avenue and 62nd Street on the cardinal grid, so the residential streets around it run north south and east west and fronts face one of four directions. That's more predictable than the curving plats further north: one side of each north south street takes the low afternoon sun straight onto the front elevation, and the houses on the numbered streets take north or south fronts. Sixty to seventy five years of settlement means out of square is the default, so three widths, three heights and a diagonal on every opening, with laser readings reduced by a sixteenth.

There's a second kind of work here that most residential neighborhoods don't have on their doorstep. The rebuilt open air format carries modern storefront glass, and commercial work on that is a different specification entirely: control heights, phased installation around trading hours, spec compliance and warranty terms in writing. A library branch, a theater and big box anchors each have different requirements from each other, let alone from a house. We keep those conversations separate rather than quoting a shop the way we'd quote a living room.

What we specify around Glendale

In the houses the problems are heat on the west fronts, mounting depth on almost everything, and a wide opening on the front elevation that wants splitting. In the commercial fabric the problems are reach, durability and coordination. Because there's no design review here at all, the outside the glass options are available on the residential side, which is the fastest way to fix a west facing living room that becomes unusable from four o'clock in July.

Streets, landmarks and schools

Everything here is described by the center and by Keystone Avenue. Glendale Town Center sits at 6101 North Keystone Avenue at 62nd Street, with Rural Street, East 61st Street and Broad Ripple Avenue running nearby, and residents give directions by the Target, the Landmark Theatres or the Indianapolis Public Library branch inside the center rather than by street name. Broad Ripple lies immediately west and SoBro to the south, with Devonshire northeast. The Monon Trail is close. Schools are MSD Washington Township, feeding North Central High School.

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