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EXHIBIT A <br />MCG Scope of Services <br />Problem Statement: <br />"Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one." <br />The City of South Bend has experienced unprecedented success in its revitalization efforts; <br />especially, the city has experienced a tremendous revitalization of the downtown and <br />neighborhoods surrounding the University of Notre Dame. Still, the city's post-industrial legacy <br />lends to high generational poverty rates, high vacancy and blight rates, and immense racial and <br />environmental justice disparities. The city's westside neighborhoods are historically African <br />American and immigrant communities that continue to be economically disenfranchised. <br />The City of South Bend values diversity and inclusion and looks to become a city in which all <br />boats rise with the tide and no neighborhood or demographic is left behind. The 2018 Prosperity <br />Now report, and the subsequent Westside Qualitative Study further inform the need for more <br />inclusive and place -based interventions that honor and recognize legacy residents voice, vision, <br />and personal agency. In fact, residents can benefit from a collaborative leadership process that <br />define a vision and plan for inclusive revitalization efforts on the westside that encourages social <br />enterprise through incremental development strategies. <br />City Goals. <br />1. Create an inclusive, thriving local economy for the people in target areas <br />a. Incentivize levels of "affordability" in housing through missing middle incremental <br />development strategies <br />2. Develop small business development ecosystem to support minority entrepreneurs and <br />aspiring developers <br />3. Develop a long-term action plan to inclusive implementation of the Westside Main <br />Streets Plan <br />:Lqr,gqt.Area: <br />Westside Corridors (Sherman/Harrison, Portage, Linden, Lincolnway) <br />Target Goals: <br />Legacy resident engagement, minority and women small business development, incremental <br />development (mixed -use and missing middle infill development) <br />