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{ 1 JOHN OXIAN: I don't understand why they are spending money to put a sign up like this when 2 they are short of money to put back a marquee, which will restore a character -defining feature of 3 the building. Why not use the money that they are going to spend on making this sign for the 4 marquee instead? This proposal would put a sign where there was never a sign in the first place. 6 SKIP MCCRAY: When I talked to Dennis Andre, he was trying to come up with some sort of 7 signage to identify the Palais Royal as being above the Vine Restaurant which has moved in 8 below. He is trying to generate more business so he can generate more revenue. That was his 9 sole purpose for having this sign above on the second floor in between those two windows; so 10 that he could identify that portion as the Palais Royal. 11 12 JOHN OXIAN: I would rather see you doing something, like the awnings down below, which at 13 one time some of them were there, than to put a sign up. 14 15 SKIP MCCRAY: We did do the big circular canopy above the entrance to the Palais Royal. 16 17 MARY JANE CHASE: The proposed sign is totally out of character with the building. 18 19 SKIP MCCRAY: I agree with you it doesn't match the architecture of the building. Dennis saw 20 the same sign next door on Club LaSalle, which we installed. He used this as his motivation. 21 22 GERALD UJDAK: I think it's totally out of character and it ruins the fagade. 23 24 JOHN OXIAN: Years ago you used to have an awning on almost every window on the south 25 and east side of the building. You also had an awning over the entranceway. Some of those 26 awnings had Palais Royal written on them so you would know. 27 28 SKIP MCCRAY: We are in the process at this time of restoring those. The graphics will be 29 changed on those awnings to the Vine's logo, just on the retractable awnings that are associated 30 with the Vine Restaurant. The other awnings will remain the property of the city of South Bend 31 and the Palais Royal, or the Morris Performing Arts Center, I guess. 32 33 JOANN SPORLEDER: This side of the building as far as we know never had a sign on it there 34 and there would be no way that we could legitimately advise in favor of such a thing for a 35 national register property. Furthermore, this particular sign is kind of an Art Deco, Art Nouveau 36 style and it is stuck on top of what I would call a Spanish Baroque -Rococo style building. The 37 two just simply don't go together. I think nobody is well served by pursuing this and I think that 38 is what our recommendation to down state should be. 39 40 CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Seconds the motion. 41 42 JOHN OXIAN: How about the awnings? 43 44 JOANN SPORLEDER: The awnings are great. I will amend my motion to include a favorable 45 opinion regarding the awnings over the first story windows. 46 47 CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Seconds the amended motion. It carries unanimously.