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South Bend edevelopment Commission Regular Meeting - December 4, 1981 5. COMMUNISATIONS (continued) going tc tear the Odd Fellows Building down, if that is a pretext for why you've got to have the TRANSPO there. I'm suggesting that as an alternative move it down where you already have cleared land. And certainly my location 'al- ternati e location would be much superior to the configura- tion th t apparently the Redevelopment Commission suggested to TRAM P0. But that could be verified by a competent Traf- fic Engineer and I won't argue that point this morning, other t an to say that the present general layout of the TRANSPO lot is superior to any other configuration that has been sh wn and TRANSPO has gone on record by their drawing as sayi g they do not need the Odd Fellows Building in con- junctior with that. Now, if I may, Mr. Chairman, let me just fi ish my presentation here very, very quickly. Again, 3ou are all wonderful people, you all have your own occupations, mine happens to be in Urban Planning, and I don't b lieve you understand the impact of a building of this ma nitude on retail sales and other aspects in down- town, n t to mention public parking. We've got a garage down he e at Main and Colfax Streets which is going to go belly-u one of these days because no one is using it. Now we woul have 350 -400 people in that building at all times that wo ld be working in there that need to park. We would even talk with the fellow that runs that particular parking garage Ebout making some long -term arrangements to lease us up to 1 0 units in that so that the City would know that they wo ld have that much money coming in. You don't have to take my word for it, go to any competent business leader in down own South Bend and ask them if they believe that the inf Sion of 3 to 400 workers, office type workers in the dow town area would have a very positive impact upon their s les. And I would suggest that possibly a good per- son wou d be Mr. Abrahams, who is the President of Robert- son's, who is also the Chairman of the Downtown South Bend Council and, frankly, I would be willing to stand on what he says If he says absolutely, that it is what we need, I would think that this Commission should take some cog- nizance of that. Mr. Nimtz: Thank you. Mr. Bra emas: Alright, now here is what I am going to ask the Commission before you open your bids, if I may. Just four qu ck points: Number one, I reiterated that we would like the 90 days and I think that the letters from the President of the Commission and Mr. Voorde, Chairman of the Committ e say it better than I can, we should have 90 days. We woul like to have the roof flashings repaired. I have 13