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South Bend edevelopment Commission Regular Mee ing - December 4, 1981 5. COMMUNIgATIONS (continued) Mr. Nim z: Thank you, sir. mission have any questions did you desire to... Mr. Vogul: No. Do the members of the Com- of Mr. Lobdell? Mr. Vogel, Mr. Nim z: Any members of the Commission have any questions or Comm nts that you wanted to make to Mr. Lobdell or Mr. Vogel? If not, would you please leave your statement with the secretary. Thank you, Jerry. Mr. Lob ell: We'll leave them all around the place, Mr. Chairma . Mr. Nim z: We may have to run some more copies, we have quite a few of the press and T.V. and screen and actors guild a d so on here. The Chair would be pleased to recogni e anybody else, but as I say, we are not going to get int a long discussion here. I think that we spent five ho rs the other night on this thing and, of course, we have been on it several years. Ms. Mut l: I'm Irene Mutzl of South Bend. I have an article here from the South Bend Tribune dated Septem- ber 23, 1981. This announces that TRANSPO did receive a grant of $228,000. It also goes on to state that David Wells, Fresident of the local bus system, said that now they will be in a position to negotiate with the Rede- velopme t Department for acquisition of a bus transfer lot at the rortheast corner of Main and Jefferson. This says nothing about demolishing the Odd Fellows Building to put this in. So I have a feeling and I am questioning the demolition of the Odd Fellows Building. This sounds to me like after this grant was received should I suggest that thE City Administration stepped in then and kind of influenced the pushing down of the Odd Fellows Building. Now I Went by the Odd Fellows Building this morning. We know th t for several years we have seen the deterioration, the unfortunate deterioration of that building. That buildinc though is only 52 years old, so we question whe- ther or not is this building safe, is it repairable? From re ding of Mr. Brademas' past accomplishments, I would t ink that gentleman is intelligent enough to know whether or not it is repairable and I don't think that he's going to do it for charity, I think it will be a profit naking venture. Now if a 52 year old building should te demolished, if you take 52 years old, there's quite a few of us in this building, we ought to be demo- lished. 10