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South Bend qedevelopment Commission Regular Mee ing - December 4, 1981 5. COMMUNIOATIONS (continued) said, w at do you have?" He said, "I would be glad to show you whal we have.` He was very kind and I went down and he gave me xeroxes of three 8 -1 %2 x 11 drawings that had come out of ihe so- called Gruen Report that was done for design plan for Century Mall. On the first one he showed me, it showed he area between Washington and.Jefferson, from Main back ab ut to the space that the TRANSPO now is using, but the area where the GSA Building was to go was shown to be omitted and the area around the Odd Fellows was shown to be omitted with a notation, and this is a matter of public re- cord, sc you can all check and see if and if it is disap- peared t all, I will give you a copy of mine, which clearly says th Odd Fellows Building to be.omitted if it can be saved, ome statement to that effect. Clearly it was in the minds of TRANSPO that their building or theiy situation could be fully and adequately handled even if they didn't get the corner where the GSA Building would gc and if they did not'.get the Odd Fellows Building. Subsequ ntly, he said, "in terms of our application, we had to show them about how much space we would have, and this is what we sent, the exact same drawing that they had made an area on which excluded the GSA Building and the Odd Fellows Building that was sent in-." He then said to me, "but this is what we have now," and that was the latest drawing which shows the Odd Fellows Building being included but going down on Washington Street, and I said to him, "well, why would you do that ?" He said, "well, I am not sure, t is is what the Redevelopment Commission said they wanted LS to have." And I said, "how long have you been in the com unity ?" He said, "well, not too long." I said, "have you been here long enough to know that Washington Street is a one -way street ?" I said, "you mean to tell me that YOL are going to bring all the buses on a one -way street down in front of that new building which is con- stricted down there ?" He said, "well, they haven't really figured that out yet, they haven't hired an architect, they haven't hired an engineer, they really haven't figured it out." So let me summarize on that by saying that in my view, as a trained Planner who's worked a long time with Transportation engineers, the best place for TRANSPO is right in the downtown area, I agree with that. Mr. Nim z: You've changed your position then from the other night. Mr. Bra" to push emas: Well, I am just suggesting that if it comes to shove, that we could move the building if you're 12