Indy's Dopest is changing…
Let's have a little chit chat.
Spend five minutes on any Indianapolis subreddit or Facebook group and you'll find the same comment, posted by someone who should get off the internet for a bit: "Indianapolis is boring…I hate it here.”
They want to be like everyone else and move to the “cool” cities like:
Austin. LA. New York. Denver. Wherever.
And look — we get it. Indianapolis was called Naptown for a reason. It was a snooze fest, but things have changed and we are here to tell everyone about it and maybe convince a few people to stay.
What's changing:
Indy's Dopest started as a real estate newsletter — great houses, great deals, the city through the lens of where you live. We're keeping some of that. But we are going to cover a lot more. Simply put, Indianapolis is changing and so should we.
Starting now, every issue covers the full picture of what makes Indianapolis genuinely…dope:
🍝 Dopest Food — The restaurants, bars, and spots your friends will be talking about before you get there
🏗️ Dopest Development — The buildings going up, the neighborhoods changing, and why Indianapolis in 2026 looks nothing like Indianapolis in 2016
🎬 Dopest Business — The local operators, creative entrepreneurs, and weird beautiful things people are building
📅 Dopest This Week — The exact events worth leaving your couch for this weekend
And everything else that tickles our fancy.
Why are we doing this?
Because someone has to. Indy is genuinely one of the most underrated cities in America and we're tired of watching people move to cities they saw on a Netflix show. The era of SnoozeTown is over. We are in the DopeTown era (not my best work, but you get it) — we just need to make sure the people who live here know it first.
This is Indy for locals written by two locals.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, stay with us. We're just getting started.
If not, unsubscribe and keep going to Applebee’s.
See you tomorrow.
With great love for our city.
— Indy's Dopest
P.S. We will still talk about dope houses because who doesn’t love to take a gander.