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• OFFICIAL STATEMENT <br />$6,245,000* <br />SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY <br />Lease Rental Revenue Refunding Bonds of 1998 <br />(Blackthorn Golf Course Project) <br />INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT <br />The purpose of this Official Statement, including the cover page, the Summary Statement <br />and the Appendices, is to provide information relating to the Lease Rental Revenue Refunding <br />Bonds of 1998 (the "Refunding Bonds") to be issued by the South Bend Redevelopment <br />Authority (the "Authority"). <br />The Authority, a public body corporate and politic, was organized for the purpose of <br />financing and leasing local public improvements to the South Bend Redevelopment <br />Commission (the "Commission"). <br />All financial and other information presented in this Official Statement has been provided <br />by sources deemed reliable and is intended to show recent historic information and is not <br />intended to indicate or project future or continuing trends in the financial position or other <br />affairs of the Authority or the Commission. No representation is made or implied hereby that <br />any past experience, as might be shown by the financial and other information, will necessarily <br />continue in the future.. References to provisions of Indiana law or the Indiana Constitution are <br />references to current provisions which maybe amended, repealed or supplemented. <br />DESCRIPTION OF THE REFUNDING BONDS <br />General <br />The Refunding Bonds are being issued pursuant to Indiana Code 36-7-14.5 (the "Act") and <br />in accordance with a Trust Agreement (the "Agreement") between the Authority and Norwest <br />Bank Indiana, N.A., Fort Wayne, Indiana, as trustee (the "Trustee'), to procure funds for the <br />advance refunding of the Authority's Lease Rental Revenue Bonds of 1992 (Blackthorn Golf <br />Course Project) (the "1992 Bonds'), to lower required lease rental payments and to pay <br />expenses incidental to the issuance of the Refunding Bonds. The Refunding Bonds shall be <br />issued in the aggregate principal amount of $6,245,000* in fully registered form and in the <br />denomination of $5,000 or any integral multiple thereof and shall bear interest at a rate or rates <br />to be determined by bidding. The Refunding Bonds shall mature on March 1 in the years and <br />amounts as shown on the cover of this Official Statement. <br />Interest on the Refunding Bonds is payable semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of <br />each year, commencing March 1,1999. Interest will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year <br />consisting of twelve 30-day months. <br /> <br />* Approximate Amount <br />-8- <br />