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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Special Meeting - February 2, 1981 <br />6. NEW BUSIINESS <br />a. Mr.I McMahon continues... <br />other house moves into, the area and new construc- <br />tion that might be appropriate. We think that <br />the plan that has been proposed makes maximum <br />benefit of the commercial possibilities along <br />some of the main arteries, it saves many fine <br />homes in the residential area and provides an <br />opportunity to reinforce them. We will also be <br />making this area available for the use of such <br />funds as 312 monies in order to improve the <br />housing stock that is in there. We also think <br />that we have provided an excellent area for <br />center city industrial and commercial development <br />south of Bronson Street. We hope that a number <br />of the firms which will be located in this area <br />will have an employment profile that would utilize <br />may low and moderate income individuals and, <br />th refore, provide employment opportunities for <br />residents in that area. We will be making an <br />of ort to target, through our job targeting efforts, <br />pe ple from that area into the employment oppor- <br />tu ities that open up as a result of firms that <br />to ate in the area south of Bronson Street. <br />Anr Kolata did a great deal of work in putting <br />to ether the plan and is here with us this morning <br />to answer any questions you might have, and perhaps <br />ex and upon some areas that I might not have touched. <br />Mr . Kolata; The only thing that I would add re- <br />la es to the suggestion of some street changes that <br />arE shown on page 20. We recommend closing a couple <br />of streets in the northern part of the neighborhood <br />to discourage through- traffic and make it so that it <br />is only for residential use. At the same time we <br />cl sed some streets south of Bronson Street to permit <br />la ger massing of land so that we could have some <br />fairly large size sites. We are looking at some sites <br />being as large as five acres. We would also recommend <br />co strutting a new street between Fellows and Rush to <br />ma e a loop through the industrial area and have access <br />to all the sites. <br />The only other point I would mention <br />ti on that is before you today is that <br />the area a tax incremental financing <br />on Century Mall and the East Bank, we <br />3 <br />about the Resolu- <br />it also declares <br />area. Previously, <br />have done that in <br />