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South Bend Ptedevelopment Commission Resdiedule4 Regular Meeting - April 13, 1989 6. NEW U IlVFSS (Cont.) b. Continued... vacant land. Plenty of space: West Jefferson, West Thomas, Chestnut, Cherry Street, all of those. And the area that they are talking about is, the Target Area A, is like Ivory soap - 99 and 44/100% black. And the majority of those do not want any buildings tore down. Suze all of us are for improvement, better homes, better things. But you got one thing there: the people that live in t area has the lowest income, the lox4est education, and the highest are saying build the houses. But L you try to pin them down, they can't . you what the rent will be, what they going to allocate those houses to the ►le in that area and for the people don't want to go. That's the whole g. Sure, on the screen you can make hint look beautiful. I just want to show you an example. They want a shopping center, a small shopping You take the Westside, where most of the Polish people live across the tracks, Western Avenue. At one time there was over six or seven grocery stores. You can't find one over there. Th 're solidified. Why don't they have grocery stores. Who said that because theV have an agenda, that they are going to iave grocery stores. A hardware st , no longer than one month ago, Werntz, after years, went out of business ov on the corner of Western Avenue. Fil ing stations, you got two of the bus'est intersections in town, Olive S t and Western. Huge filling sta ion, boarded up. Corner of lnway and Olive, another filling sta ion is boarded up. We're under their ageida here, that they took the survey, The , theirselves, said that the cost, hou3es cannot be built, businesses cannot be rofitable. Now how can they sit -22-