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Latest News November 16, 2009 Datasmith Technologies Receives 2009 Best of Indianapolis Award Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Datasmith Technologies Receives 2009 Best of Indianapolis Award U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 -- Datasmith Technologies has been selected for the 2009 Best of Indianapolis Award in the Computer Software & Accessories category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA). The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USCA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties. About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising. The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America. SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Association CONTACT: U.S. Commerce Association Email: PublicRelations@us-ca.org URL: http://www.us-ca.org ### November 15, 2009 Development plans percolating in five urban corridors: East 10th Street, Fountain Square lead FOCUS pack. DataSmith Technologies owner James Smith started looking almost two years ago for a building to house his business, his home and possibly a revenue-generating tenant. What he ended up with was a dilapidated former bar on a struggling section of East 10th Street that had become a haven for vagrants. Smith took a chance on the building at 2032 E. 10th St., most recently home to Mustang Sally's tavern, largely because of the involvement of the East 10th Street Civic Association. That organization is leading efforts to revitalize the corridor through a program called Fostering Commercial Urban Strategies, supported by the city and the Indianapolis office of the Local Initiatives Support Corp. Launched locally in 2004, the FOCUS program provides grants and technical support to organizers in five inner-city corridors who are hoping to bring viable small businesses back to their neighborhoods. In addition to East 10th Street, targeted corridors include Fountain Square, West Washington Street, 16th Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. A sixth corridor is expected to be announced in the coming weeks. East 10th Street is one of the first corridors to show tangible results--such as Smith's building--from its FOCUS efforts. The building, renamed the Mayfair after the original bar that occupied it, has been gutted and is undergoing reconstruction. Smith hopes to move DataSmith in by the end of this year. A coffee shop, the Mayfair Coffee Co., is slated to open on the first floor by the end of 2007. "There were a lot of reasons why a lot of businesses would not even think about getting this building," Smith said. First was the ownership. The Mayfair had been owned by a Canadian company that had taken little interest in the building. Smith, with the civic association's help, eventually purchased it through a tax sale. Then there was the fact that the building was recommended for demolition, not because of its condition so much as because it had become a haven for vagrants and unseemly activity. Even before Smith purchased the building, he persuaded the city to let the main part stand by rounding up volunteers to demolish an accessory structure vagrants used for access. And finally, there was the smell. Not only had it become a home for vagrants, it had also been a bar for 80 years, and had all the rankness associated with stale beer, questionable sanitary practices and drunken people. The smell is gone now, and the building is slowly returning to its original state, with two storefront spaces instead of one and an open upstairs that, pending rezoning to allow a mixed-use building, will become a 2,000-square-foot condominium for Smith and his family, who now live in Carmel. The total project, including grants for facade improvements and technical assistance, will cost close to $175,000, Smith said. Most of that will come from Smith himself, who has moved DataSmith out of leased space on the east side and back into his home to allow more funds to go into the Mayfair renovation. Nearby, the civic association is taking steps to spur more redevelopment like the Mayfair's. Crews recently demolished the former Short Stop market at 10th and Gray streets, along with two neighboring doubles, to create a three-lot developable site across from the new IPS School 54 under construction. There's no set plans for those lots, but Civic Association Director Tammi Hughes said the group is interested in attracting a mixed-use building incorporating retail and/or small businesses. November 10, 2009 Presidet/CEO James B. Smith exposes major telecom security flaw. .  Archives November 2009

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