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September 22, 1987 Mr.. Jon R. Hunt Executive Director Department of Economic Development County-City Building South Ben l, Indiana 46601 Dear Jon: It was a pleasure meeting with you and Ms. Eugenia Schwartz concerning our proposed Capital Plaza Office Building to be constructed on Parcel C4 -3 of the South Bend Central Development Area. Getting together to discuss this matter with you and Ms. Schwartz proved to be a very enlightening, worthwhile and beneficial experience. v As we discussed during our. meeting, we want our downtown office project to conform as much as possible with the South Bend Redevelopment Commission's Central Eusiness District Conceptual Plan. By attending the meeting that your office sp nsored on the morning of Friday, September 11, 1987 and by thoroughly reading and reviewing the very extensive booklets that were distributed during said meeting concerning the South Bend- Downtown Development Plan for the years 1987 through 2000, it is plain to see that a great deal of forethought, planning and analysis has been done by your office. In light of the fact that the other developers in the immediate area of our proposed office building have agreed to provide space for an open -air pedestrian plaza - walkway through the visual corridor area running east to west between the Century Center and the St. Joseph County Courthouse, we have decided to modify the design of our proposed office building. This will enable us to allow for the development of said east -west open -air pedestrian plaza- corridor as suggested by the South Bend Downtown Development Plan. Howe er, our office building' design plan will have to be modified. to the extent that the east -west atrium at the southern end of our proposed office building will be removed. This will allow for unrestricted pedestrian traffic to flow across our parcel so that the visual corridor could then be a continuous open -air pedestrian corridor from St. Joseph Street on the east and continuing on to Main Street on the west. As we discussed, such a modification of our proposed office building design will require some additional time to be devoted to the re- design process. However, it is ver important to us that the completion date of our proposed office building THE COMBINED CAPITAL GROUP Valley American Bank Bldg. Suite 2112 • P.O. Box 630 • South Ben IN 46624 Telephone: (219j.232 -9200