INDIANAPOLIS — The former Indianapolis mayor credited with revitalizing the city’s downtown has died.
A family spokesman says Mayor William Hudnut III died in hospice care early Sunday in Maryland, following a lengthy illness. He was 84.
Hudnut was the city’s longest-serving mayor, holding office four terms, beginning in 1976. He is credited with laying the ground work that pulled the city out of a post-World War II decline.
Hudnut oversaw the relocation of the NFL’s Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis.
