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South BendlRedevelopment Com. fission <br />Regular Me ting - February 15, 1980 <br />7. PROGRESS REPORTS <br />a. corktlnued. . <br />Ms. Auburn: I have a question on the <br />to ation of the addresses that you mailed to. <br />I would like to know if you can give me <br />some kind of break down on the 200, how many <br />of them are located in the central area already, <br />such as the Sherland Building, or the American <br />National Bank Building? How many of them were <br />addresses which were located outside of the <br />central business core, and out of that 100 <br />re ponse rate, can you give me some feeling <br />fo how much of it was the central city <br />co e response versus exterior? <br />Mr. Brademas: The survey was done by an <br />independent entity, and that brings me to <br />thE Gruen plan, which I think needs to have <br />a lot more discussion. I have known the <br />Victor Gruen firm for many years, and their <br />major type of work is in the design of <br />surburban shopping centers. It is a very <br />large firm and with any assignment they <br />receive you don't know who will be coming <br />in from their organization. From my <br />kncwledge of the downtown, and what I believe <br />needs to be done, I think that the Gruen <br />corcept leaves much to be desired. What the <br />Ro se report said was that the market for <br />commercial uses in the Century Mall will be <br />local specialty shops, botiaues, and that <br />type of thing. What has been indicated in <br />the Century Mall Model is a complete lack <br />of understanding of what the Report suggests. <br />As a. developer we are very much interested <br />in eing involved in the development of Century <br />Mall. It may be that there are already people <br />sta ding in line to develop Mr. Gruen's plan, <br />but I can tell you without any fear of contra- <br />diction that no developer worth his salt is <br />goi g to let any outside group, even as well <br />meaning as it is, have some outside architect <br />de lop a set of plans and give these plans <br />to hem and say... go ahead and build. No <br />develloper in his right mind is going to do that. <br />Any developer who knows what he is doing has <br />a c ncept of what he wants to accomplish, is <br />goi g to get his.own architect and do all that. <br />I ink rather than to be adding additional <br />contracts to Mr. Gruen that you ought to <br />decide to get somebody locally and lets get <br />12 <br />