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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting — October 11, 2011 <br />was clearly not sold for a premium price. <br />Mr. Gilot responded that we are not asking to <br />construct these improvements now; we are <br />just wanting to design reserved right -of -way <br />space. You can't consider doing these things <br />later if you don't plan for them now. <br />Mr. Varner said that he is concerned that <br />when the time comes to decide whether to go <br />with the ecosystem or not, we'll feel like <br />we've invested the planning money and can't <br />not do it. Mr. Gilot and Ms. Hathaway <br />assured him that would not be the case. The <br />design they are asking for does not cost <br />more. <br />Ms. King noted that what she particularly <br />likes is that Mr. Gilot has broken this down <br />into pieces. The city is not yet committing to <br />the next step because the technology may not <br />be there and may never be there. Ms. <br />Hathaway agreed that it may never be <br />maintainable. The technology may be there, <br />but the cost to maintain it may be prohibitive. <br />Staff has purposely proceeded so that the city <br />doesn't get headed down a path it can't <br />afford to take. <br />Mr. Varner said that perhaps the need is <br />really to fill the space with good quality <br />small light manufacturing. <br />Ms. Hathaway responded that "cloud <br />computing," which is what Data Realty is, <br />really is a generator in and of itself, but if we <br />have a number of cloud computing <br />companies there, we would draw data <br />analytics companies. Whether this is to be a <br />high -tech office park, or manufacturing, or <br />industrial, you want to look at the land plan <br />as responding to the surrounding area. This <br />13 <br />