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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br /> Regular Meeting—March 8, 2011 <br /> 6. NEW BUSINESS <br /> (A) Airport Economic DevelopmentArea <br /> (2) continued... <br /> Graham Allen Partners and the emerging <br /> Data Realty and with all the people at <br /> Innovation Park, maintaining relationships, <br /> across the street at Notre Dame in many <br /> areas especially in engineering. A <br /> relationship also with Project Future. When <br /> at the table with Ms. Hathaway, Mr. Gibney, <br /> Mr. Price and others, Blue Waters Group is <br /> sitting as part of a much bigger team than <br /> that because of their relationship with all <br /> those entities in town, in this market, in this <br /> whole initiative and pulling in the same <br /> direction. The idea being that South Bend <br /> could in fact be positioned as a new center of <br /> research and technology and innovation after <br /> many years of wanting to hope and believe in <br /> something good happening here against its <br /> history. Mr. Strickler believes that South <br /> Bend has turned the corner. So the <br /> presentation and proposal Blue Waters Group <br /> prepared reflects that. <br /> Mr. Strickler noted that the newsletter <br /> SouthBendON has proven to be enormously <br /> successful, with a lot of room for <br /> improvement; but over a 1,000 people <br /> subscribe to it and they are all people with a <br /> vested interest in the future of South Bend. <br /> It's a small number but in terms of a <br /> percentage of the whole population of people <br /> with a true interest in what's going on in <br /> South Bend. Seventy percent of those readers <br /> come from South Bend proper and thirty <br /> percent from outside. Blue Waters Group <br /> began to do some research among that <br /> population to determine what levels of <br /> 17 <br />