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Community The suburbs of Indianapolis, including Carmel, Westfield and Noblesville, have been recognized as some of the best places to live in the country. Some of the more trendy areas of Indianapolis include the Carmel Arts & Design District, Broad Ripple Village, Fountain Square, and the Mass Ave Arts District. Indianapolis Fun Facts — Indianapolis is home to the world’s largest children’s museum in both square footage and number of artifacts. — Forbes ranks Indianapolis as one of America’s Top 25 Best Shopping cities with 18 different shopping centers and 5,955 retail locations. — Indianapolis is second only to Washington, D.C. in its number of monuments and memorials (33). — Indianapolis boasts the first international airport designed and built after 9/11, rated number one in security by travelers in a J.D. Power & Associates poll. — Indianapolis is home to the two largest single-day sporting events in the world, the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400. —Elvis performed his last concert in downtown Indianapolis in June 1977. —The Indianapolis Motor Speedway track is home to the Indianapolis 500 and is so large that Churchill Downs, Yankee Stadium, the Rose Bowl, Vatican City and Rome’s Colosseum can all fit inside the iconic oval, which covers 253 acres. —Lucas Oil Stadium, host venue for the Super Bowl in 2012, has the NFL’s first-of-its-kind retractable roof—it takes eight minutes to open. —More than 150 parks and seven trails are found in Indianapolis, including the eight-mile Indianapolis Cultural Trail, a world-class urban bike and pedestrian path that connects neighborhoods, cultural districts and entertainment amenities. It serves as the downtown hub for central Indiana’s vast greenway system, and The New York Times listed it among the “52 Places to Go in 2014.” There’s also the 10-mile Monon Trail, popular for providing residents a chance to escape to the great outdoors and take a break from the pace of city life. — In 2012, CNN ranked Indianapolis third among the “10 Most Affordable Cities for Homebuying.” The city is the largest metro area of the ten.

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