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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting — October 11, 2011 <br />is a real good land plan. It brings people in <br />from four directions. It highlights a center <br />piece. It doesn't matter that the city gets the <br />huge industrial building. Phase 1 B doesn't <br />put this road in. We would be able to take <br />this entire block and turn it over to some very <br />large company. The flexibility is there to <br />provide for lots of small businesses or to <br />provide for very large businesses. When we <br />talk about planning for those potential <br />ecosystem components, those very wide <br />easements and the ability to plunk in more <br />duct banks for power if we need to, we'll <br />have the space. We won't have to come back <br />later and tear roads up. <br />Mr. Varner asked whether we have defined <br />what a suitable tenant would be for Ignition <br />Park. Ms. Hathaway responded that we have <br />a Planned Use Development designation and <br />architectural guidelines. In considering <br />whether a prospect is suitable, an <br />architectural review board would look at how <br />many semi - trailer trucks would be pulling in <br />and out of there every day. What kind of <br />waste disposal. What's the outside going to <br />look like? We certainly wouldn't want <br />someone here today in the park that required <br />a lot of outside storage. In that case Oliver <br />Park would be more suitable. Ms. <br />Hathaway's 30 -year suggestion to Economic <br />Development has been that when Brownfield <br />money is available, to start buying across <br />Prairie Avenue, so we would have nearby <br />industrial land to steer someone to. <br />Mr. Varner stated that, philosophically, if <br />you make a huge investment in this, you look <br />for ways to fill it up, not ways to keep it <br />empty by making it too difficult to meet the <br />standards. We don't want the word on the <br />street to be that you can't get into Ignition <br />14 <br />