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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Rescheduled Regular Meeting - April 13, 1989 6. NEV DMINE.SS (Cont.) b. Continued... :lopment, our Plan recoxmiends .isition of severely deteriorated iercial buildings, relocation of nesses, demolition of the structures, assembly of the land for new :lopment - for the new housing and ercial development. At the same time, we are also recomvxkling that several of the buildings in the area be acquired and rehabilitated and reused for new businesses and businesses relocated from buildings to be demolished. The WWCRP and South Bend Heritage Foundation have already begun working with one merchant to relocate in the area. The buildings in this category of acquisition and reuse lude the two commercial buildings on thE northwest corner of Elm and Wa.chington. If you refer to the map on thE screen, I will draw your attention to these buildings to be rehabilitated and reused. They are the buildings that are more darkly shaded, they are supposed to have little dots on them, but those are hard to see at this distance. Elm Street is the further eastern boundary on that map on the far right. We are recamvending that the two cc miercial buildings on the northwest corner be retained, the Tudor style building, which is actually three separate storefronts on the northwest corner of Walnut and Washington, the two buildings on the southwest corner of Walnut and W n, and the former Slutsky Peltz building along the south side of the 1200 block of Washington. Also included in this category is the former Sandock building, which is not indicated on the map. We recognize that the feasibility of rehabilitating a particular building is lependent on the costs of reh ilitation and locating a developer. In a case of the Sandock building, with Ci support, an engineering study has -13-