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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Special fleeting - -June 19, 2007 <br />2. NEW BUSINESS <br />A. Airport Economic Development Area <br />(1) continued... <br />Square area, is a hidden gem in the city. <br />Where are a lot of resources in the area. You <br />have Honeywell and Bosch right there by the <br />industrial park. We see this as a win - -grin, not <br />only for the neighborhood, but for the city in <br />general. our association's name is the <br />Lincolnway West Gatewqy Association. <br />This is just south ofthe main thoroughfare of <br />Lincolnway Nest, the gateway to our city. <br />We believe anything that can be done in that <br />area to improve it and reverse the trend that <br />has occurred for the last ten or fifteen years <br />will be a positivc step. one thing that I've <br />mentioncd before in other meetings is that <br />there are a lot of international people who <br />come to Honeywell and Bosch. We don't <br />realize how many people from around the <br />world come there on business. It's time we <br />realize that and reinvest in that area and <br />make it appealing not only to them but to the <br />neighborhood residents. This has a lot of <br />potential and we're going to thank you for <br />your consideration at this tine. <br />Mayor Luecke: I speak in full. support of the <br />expansion of the Airport Economic <br />Development Area. I think it is a creative <br />way to bring needed resources to inner city <br />areas that have been under invested in, <br />di invested in, over the past several decades. <br />echo what Don said that the common thread <br />here is the usagc of those properties] it's not <br />the geographic common thread you saw in <br />connecting the core downtown with the East <br />Bank and Monroe Park, but rather the usage <br />and the opportunity that exists there. <br />16 <br />