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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -June 4, 2010 <br />Where we are. Who would have thought six <br />years ago that Notre Dame and the city could <br />collaborate to the depth that would entice the <br />semiconductor industry to create the fourth <br />site of research development in the country in <br />South Bend? That collaboration is still <br />incredibly strong. Higher education is <br />responding to the needs that MIND and other <br />technologies are going to require. As an <br />example, Ivy Tech has identified atwo-year <br />nanotechnology program that it hopes to <br />institute in fall 2010. They are doing that <br />with collaboration from Notre Dame and <br />Penn State. They will even have access <br />remotely to an atomic microscope on the <br />campus of Penn State. Purdue's Engineering <br />Technology School is moving from atwo- <br />year program to a four-year program; and <br />they are going to institute a Masters program <br />in that field. And, they are embedding with <br />Notre Dame's help nano components within <br />that four-year program. <br />Having eighty acres available as a Certified <br />Technology Park, cleared and <br />environmentally mitigated, is unique among <br />Tech Parks. No one else has that. When the <br />city tears down the remaining two buildings <br />and mitigates its land, it will be able to go <br />back and change that Certified Technology <br />Park designation to 140 acres. But the city is <br />ready today to accommodate anyone who <br />wants to build now. That is an amazing <br />accomplishment. <br />Also, the city did a vibration and <br />electromagnetic study. It showed that with <br />normal setbacks from streets, 40 acres of that <br />80 acres have a high vibration and <br />electromagnetic mitigation. That is <br />important to anyone wanting to include a <br />"clean room" in its development. That could <br />10 <br />