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South Bend Commission <br />Regular Mee�edevelopment <br />ing - November 2, 1979 <br />7. PROGRESS REPORTS <br />The Chalir recognizes Mr. T. Brooks Brademas: <br />Mr. Brademas: Mr. President, I'm delighted to see <br />you back and looking so well. <br />I'd like to speak very briefly to several of the points <br />that have been discussed this morning, relative to the <br />Odd Fellows Building. One, financing. I will leave <br />with you for your perusal, a report on the Stevens <br />Company. That may be a firm not familiar to the <br />Commission but it has now become one of the half dozen <br />largest firms of its kind in the country, specializing <br />in the industrial revenue type bond. So from the <br />standpoint of the viability of the financing I can tell <br />you we have a firm commitment. Speaking directly to <br />thE Commission President's concern as to whether or not <br />you get started and then you have the wherewithal to <br />carry forward, I think that our record certainly speaks <br />for itself in what we have done here in the community. <br />As you know, on these EDC Bonds you have to sign on <br />them personally, and I can tell you when we do that why <br />we're going to be around to make sure that the job gets <br />do e. A couple of points are very well taken and I <br />admire your Executive Director's footwork in terms of <br />responding to them, but I come back again to say that <br />if Mr. Jannotta's report would suggest anything other than <br />what the very thought out and excellent report of the <br />Rouse people suggested, I would think that you would have <br />to look into this. It would be inconceivable to me, from <br />onE who has some knowledge of the local situation, to <br />think that Mr. Jannotta would come up with anything that <br />wo ld be very much different than what the Rouse people <br />said. There is and will be a very strong demand for <br />thE type of office space that could be provided by the <br />Odc Fellows Building. There are a couple of housekeeping <br />ki d of things. We have looked over that building in <br />great detail, it is very structurally sound and the roof <br />is essentially sound, but in the southwest corner there <br />.is a leak in the roof, and also along the north parapet <br />wall there is a leak. That may not mean a great deal <br />at this point in time, but could if we get a lot of rain <br />an snow packing up there. It would not take very much <br />to make some temporary repairs and I would just hope <br />th t you take that into consideration as well as some <br />of the windows that are open where you might get some <br />bl wing snow and rain. Because the building is basically <br />in structurally sound condition now, we wouldn't want to <br />ha e any further damage. <br />-16- <br />DISCUSSION BY MR. <br />T. BROOKS <br />BRADEMAS <br />
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