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• South Band Redevelopment Authority Special Meeting - November 16,.1989 6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) e. continued... The seventh project i.s the. construction of a walkway along the Rink Riverside property. All of the East Bank and. the downtown are connected by riverfront walkways with the exception of the portion behind Rink Riverside Printing. This project would constructthe missing portion between the alley by the doctor's office to Colfax Street, at grade level, approximately 230 linear feet. It would also include the repair or demolition of the chimney on the Rink Riverside building. The estimated cost of this project is $275,000.. The eighth project is Viewing Park. The .project would include continuing the walkway at Ha~an3 Park down to Sample Street, repair of the old WPA wall and amphitheater, putting in same lighting, and making improvements to the driveways grid parking area. The estimated cost of this project is $165,°203. The ninth project is a variety of curb and sidewalk improvements in the downtown. Mrs. Kolata noted that some of these projects may not be done. We are interested in splitting the costs of curb and sidewalk improvements with the owner of adjacent property and in using curb and sidewalk • improvements to leverage other private improvements. We would not necessarily invest our money if woe could not get such cartmnitments from the PAY owners. The sections of curb and sidewalks proposed to be repaired are as follaws: approximately 55 linear feet in front of the City parking lot on Lafayette Street; along Lafayette Street from where the Valley American Bank drive-in ends to behind the Bath Building; approximately 35 linear feet along the property at 312 W. Colfax; along PTL Tire Service on Colfax; along the front of the. Colfax 'Theater; along both sides of the Christman Building; along LaSalle and Main Streets next to the South Bend Parking Lot north of the Christman Building; along Washington Street adjacent to Business Systems, Van Horne Jewelers, and Fannie Mae Candy Store; a section in front of the Summit Bank at Colfax and Main; and approximately 198 linear feet in front of the Trigon Building at Lafayette and Jefferson. The estimated cost of our portion of all of this curb and sidewalk work is $91,000. The last project i.s Monroe park acquisition. It is divided into three categories: 1) eight parcels that are vacant land; 2) eleven properties that have houses and the clearance of those houses; 3) eleven parcels with houses where we would have rehab of the houses. The estimated cast of the Monroe. Park project is $770,000. Mrs. Kolata noted that we have begun the acquisition using C.armminity Development Block Grant funds which we will reimburse with bond funds when they are available. The total cyst of all projects is estimated at $3,349,153. Mrs. Kolata • noted that to arrive at these estimates, a generous contingency was added to the contractors' estimates because we did not want to underestimate the cysts. -5-