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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –December 3, 2010 <br /> <br /> <br /> D. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> <br />(1) Proposal for professional services related <br />to Ignition Park. <br /> <br />Ms. Hathaway noted that staff requests <br />Commission approval for a proposal from <br />BSA Life Structures for a Land Planning, <br />Master Planning, Site Budgeting and <br />Architectural Concept Development for <br />Ignition Park in the amount of $65,500. <br /> <br />Ms. Hathaway noted that it is really timely <br />that we look at how the park will be <br />developed. Innovation Park has met its first <br />year goals. Notre Dame, Project Future and <br />private groups are working very hard at <br />trying to understand and develop methods for <br />advancing the commercialization of the <br />research on the campus of Notre Dame. We <br />have a business asset inventory that’s being <br />developed for the regional businesses for two <br />purposes: one, to understand who is here, <br />and also to understand how those businesses <br />here might help in that commercialization <br />process. And then, hopefully, how the <br />residual effect of that would be that they <br />might actually increase their capacity for <br />innovation and technological advances. Both <br />of those things, the commercialization and <br />the regional development, should result in <br />some potential tenants for Ignition Park as <br />they graduate from Innovation Park or as <br />they grow from their existing locations in the <br />region. Also, we are beginning to receive <br />calls of interest about Ignition Park. <br /> <br />It is important for us to understand the best <br />way to develop the physical part of Ignition <br />Park so that we do that in a way that is <br />beneficial ecologically to the community, <br />and so that it appeals to those developers and <br /> 20 <br /> <br />