The 16 Tech Innovation District is a 50-acre community dedicated to fostering world-changing innovation and economic opportunity. 16 Tech is:
The 16 Tech Innovation District is a 50-acre community dedicated to fostering world-changing innovation and economic opportunity. 16 Tech is:
Located near Central Indiana’s top healthcare, academic, and corporate institutions, our fast-growing network of dynamic spaces, programming, tenants, and partners are creating an innovation ecosystem where bold ideas and emerging enterprises can thrive.
We’re bringing together entrepreneurs, academics, startups, corporations, and community members in a single place dedicated to collaboration and creative problem-solving. At 16 Tech, people from diverse backgrounds are forming ideas and forging partnerships that will propel our entire region forward.
16 Tech is committed to creating equitable opportunities and inclusive environments for everyone in the Indianapolis community. We are dedicated to building strong relationships with neighboring residents and businesses based on mutual respect, transparency and accountability.
16 Tech residents and workers wil not only enjoy access to 16 Tech’s growing resources, programs, and amenities; they’ll also get to live and work in a vibrant and growing community featuring greenspace, trails, and the AMP—an artisan marketplace and food hall dedicated to showcasing local Indianapolis food, drink and entertainment.
To drive Indiana to the next level of global leadership through a placemaking strategy that attracts, develops, and retains talent by leveraging the unique entrepreneurial, corporate and university research assets in downtown Indianapolis.
To develop an innovation district that creates opportunity, cultivates community, and facilitates discovery through the convergence of people, technology, purpose and place.
Innovation districts facilitate the creation and commercialization of new ideas and support metropolitan economies by growing jobs in ways that leverage their distinct economic attributes. These districts build on and revalue the intrinsic qualities of cities: proximity, density, authenticity and vibrant places.
The goal? Boost the city and state’s economic growth potential.