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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –January 15, 2010 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> <br />A. Public Hearings and Commission action on <br />appropriation resolutions. <br /> <br />(1) continued… <br /> <br />resolution, and affidavits from the South <br />Bend Tribune and Tri-County News that the <br />notice was published in those newspapers on <br />January 1, 2010. <br /> <br />Mr. Inks noted that since the Commission is <br />now doing multiple year strategies for the <br />South Bend Central and Airport Economic <br />Development Areas, we’re seeing projects <br />rolling over from one year to the next. There <br />are very few changes from one year to the <br />next. He highlighted the changes for those <br />two areas. <br /> <br />In the AEDA, the strategic plan for the golf <br />course has been added, renovation of the <br />former Bureau of Housing facility on Eclipse <br />Place to be a new animal shelter, a potential <br />criminal correction facility in the Airport <br />Industrial Park area needs an access road, <br />and creating an overlay zone around Ignition <br />Park. <br /> <br />In the downtown, holding costs for the <br />LaSalle Hotel have been around $20,000 per <br />year. We have increased that to $60,000 in <br />2010 in an effort to clean out the hotel to <br />make it more appealing to a developer. An <br />elevator in the hotel also needs some repair. <br />The budget contains $175,000 for the Hall of <br />Fame as matching funds for an EDA <br />matching grant that we will be seeking to <br />study adaptive reuse. There is money in the <br />SBCDA budget for Jefferson Street design <br />for a potential project on the East Bank, and <br /> 10 <br /> <br />