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1 February On site tour of the "Lang Lab" at 1302 High Street given by Dave Hurley with Elicia Feasel, Wayne Doolittle and Todd Zeiger. Discussed various strategies and funding sources for the 1898 brick and wood factory. Exterior is yellow brick the interior has wood floors with 10" solid posts supporting 8-10" solid beams on cast iron capitals. Structure has 300 windows that are mostly boarded up. Continued sorting through and discarding booklets in HPC Library. Emailed Mike Wheeler and Barbara Black Fredman of Granger Paths about my concerns of the landmarked 13271 Adams Road before the meeting was postponed due to the weather/blizzard. 2 February Snow Day 3 February Spoke with Marcia Kokot again about her door; advised her not to purchase the door she submitted with the application because I didn't think that the Commission would approve it. Wayne.spoke to her as well, said he would go to the location and measure the door and advised her to have the original wood door repaired and the proper hardware installed and then purchase a good storm door -Larsen. Spoke with Laura Moran and Scott Peacock about the house at 609 Riverside Drive; obtained tax information for them and discussed the condition of the house with Scott. Advised him that vinyl siding and windows would probably not be approved by the Commission unless it was to only feasible alternative -the current aluminum siding is pulling away from the body of the house. Ezra from Opera LaSalle came by for the information that we had on an alternative use for the State Theatre performed in 1989. The State is up for auction between February 7.10 with bids starting at $125,000.00. Stephanie Kopczynski came by to complete the inventory. 4 February Worked on 2010 106 Reviews filing with pulled survey cards on demolished structures. Culling through the printed materials on redevelopment in the Office Conference Room. 7 February Continued work in Conference Room. Took the afternoon as a sick day. 8 February Meetings with Chuck Bulot on the proposed handrails for Gate House at Riverview Cemetery so that they meet South Bend's Code. Handrails will not be attached to the building because they are only required to go up the sides of the new concrete steps located in the rear of the structure. Responded to Tom Doyle of Big C Lumber to arrange a presentation at the next HPC meeting on an interior storm window. Researched ownership of Campus Apartments in East Washington National Register District. After hours networking with Green Drinks; asked to coordinate next month's at the Conservatories. 9 February Accessed the tax system and pulled up all of the properties owned Campus Apartments DBA Gross & Cohen Notre Dame LLC and Notre Dame Il LLC. It owns at least 19 properties (listed in the tax system) of the 80 structures in the E. Washington