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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting - May 21, 1993 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) <br />a. continued... <br />to be found to be "blighted." That's a term <br />of all that means a certain thing when it's <br />used by the Redevelopment Commission; it's <br />not a general black mark against the area. It <br />means, as Ann has said, that business will not <br />go into that area or normal development <br />activities will not go in because some barrier <br />exists. That's what Larry described to us; <br />that's what Matt submitted information to the <br />Commission concerning —the economic <br />barriers that exist in the area. <br />MRS. KOLATA: Yes, sometimes those <br />barriers can be, as we've pointed out, <br />unstable soil; it can be that you need to buy <br />property from a number of different property <br />owners and tear down obsolete buildings. <br />There are all sorts of barriers that can exist, <br />some of which are just that no one wants to <br />go into the northern portion of the Southeast <br />Neighborhood, in itself, would be a barrier <br />because people don't want to go in there <br />because of the deterioration that exists. <br />MR. HUNT: To be fair to you, though, that <br />is a generic question that has come up on <br />every redevelopment project that we've ever <br />had, from downtown, to East Bank, to <br />Monroe Park. And it's a good question to <br />ask. Everybody says, "Why do we have to <br />have the designation of blight." And the <br />latitude locally is this: zero. <br />MS. BLACKETOR: We're investing <br />$55,000,000 in what we're now calling a <br />-29- <br />