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SOUTH END REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION <br />SPECIA MEETING: July 10, 1975 Page 3. <br />3. New Business <br />a. <br />Consideration of bid received from the St. Joseph River Bend <br />Development Corporation on Disposition Parcel No. 6 -°1, Project <br />Indiana R -66: President F. Jay Nimtz advised that Messrs. <br />Brownell and Butler have been meeting and negotiating with <br />the bidder in accordance with the instructions from the Re- <br />development Commission, and, at this point, called on Mr. <br />Kevin J. Butler, Legal Counsel, for his report. <br />Mr. Butler advised: <br />Members of the Commission: <br />We were directed, at your meeting last Thursday to <br />discuss the technical matters concerning the redevelop- <br />er's bid, the redeveloper being the St. Joseph River <br />Bend Development Corporation. Mr. Brownell and I have <br />met with the representatives of the redeveloper, and are <br />in basic accord with respect to the issues that were <br />raised last week. <br />1) There are additional matters that have to be dis- <br />cussed and worked through; e.g., we were going to <br />acquire a 40 -foot right -of -way from Columbia Street <br />over to the Pedestrian Parkway. We want to negotiate <br />with the redeveloper, whatever redeveloper we will be <br />working with to determine the location of that 40 -foot <br />right -of -way., to be appropriate both for public purposes <br />and for their uses. We feel that is the better approach <br />than simply designating the location of the right -of- <br />way and then having the developer work around that. <br />2) You will recall, towards the end of last year, Block 6 <br />was in Fire District No. 1, and we were authorized by <br />the Commission to get a change on that. We went to <br />the Common Council and the Council did eliminate that <br />particular parcel in Fire District No. 1. However, the <br />Fire Chief, Chief Bland, in approving that and going <br />along with that proposal asked us,and we are committed, <br />that before any development is put on Block 6, that the <br />actual physical plans would be presented to the Fire <br />Department for their review to make sure that the con- <br />struction is fire -safe for people. <br />3) A third matter that is going to be discussed and will <br />have to be resolved is relative to the old gasoline <br />station that is over there on that site. <br />Now, I think that Mr. Brownell and I can both assure the <br />members of the Commission and the public that the principals <br />of this Coproration are all local businessmen and professional <br />