Cruft Street Commons

Jungclaus-Campbell, partnering with owner Big Car Collaborative and landscape architects Rundell Ernstberger Associates, has completed work on the $500,000 Public Greenspace component of the larger, Cruft Street Commons project in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Indianapolis.

Cruft Street Commons is a campus of fifteen homes that serve as artists’ residences and two former industrial buildings: the Tube Factory Artspace, a renovated, 12,000-square-foot building, and Big Tube, a 40,000-square-foot building awaiting renovation.

The Public Greenspace, which merges the former backyards of three houses, will include an amphitheater, outdoor seating, beehives, and chicken coops.  The goal of the space, according to architect Daniel Liggett, is to create an outdoor gathering space that ties the campus together.

Jungclaus is also serving as the General Contractor on the Big Tube project, which is still in the design phase and will begin later this year with masonry repairs, installation of a new roof, and other exterior improvements including new doors and windows.  Blackline Studio is the architect.

Big Tube will serve as an art and community space, incorporating galleries, artist studios, retail space, a café, and the radio station, WQRT-FM 99.1. Jungclaus is proud to support Big Car’s mission to “bring art to people and people to art, sparking creativity in lives to support communities.”