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• Transform the two corridors from auto dependent arteries into rnixed use Gateways into the city from the Western End, becoming integral parts of the "Image of South Bend ". • Create walkable, mixed use, mixed income, neighborhoods adjacent to the corridors with their individual nodes and gathering places. • Craft a retail strategy that acknowledges market realities along the corridors and strategically locates retail nodes to best serve the city and surrounding neighborhoods. • Create additional land uses required to attract new economic engines from emerging fields such as technology, distribution, green industrial, urban agriculture, and higher education. • Develop an Implementation Matrix that delivers short, medium and long term strategies, emphasizing tactical interventions that can be implemented economically on day one. • Deliver a tool kit to the city and the community that enables them to replicate successful pilot projects in other parts of the city. WHY US? The Torti Gallas and Partners Team Our team represents proven expertise in design thinking, community interaction, and economic development. We have delivered completely built, fully implemented, and fully occupied; mixed - income, multi - discipline, urban revitalization projects in 48 cities across the United States. Listening, invention, respect and honesty are the hallmarks of our process. Included within our team are the following inextricability linked talents: 1. Planning and urban design 2. Market analysis 3. Real estate development 4. Community outreach and civic engagement 5. Community intervention strategies and skills 6. Project financing capabilities of over $100,000,000. 7. Think tank ingenuity 8. Mixed -use, mixed - income design expertise 9. Sensitive relocation plans devised with participation from residents 10. Urban retail and mixed -use development at the scale of the neighborhood and the city 11. Job creation strategies using public, private and philanthropic resources TORTI GALLAS AND PARTNERS PROJECT APPROACH Our team DOES NOT want to create a plan that gathers dust as it sits on the shelf. Our goal is to deliver a set of strategies that will lead to successful interventions that become models for the transformation of 7 miles of gateway corridors and almost 9 square miles of the neediest neighborhoods in South Bend. We aim to provide the community with a tool kit of straightforward, realistic, and implementable strategies. The Torti Gallas Team has learned that the design of any successful community -based redevelopment Master Plan relies on a coordinated response to three sets of issues: 1) There must be an effective outreach program that enfranchises stakeholders and allows them to be advocates of the design; 2) the transformative physical design must support a vibrant and energized public realm; and finally, 3) the design must consider the market practicality, technical requirements and available financial resources required for its implementation. Our team has worked with numerous stakeholder groups in a process that involves listening to understand the issues and then responding to provide an appropriate design solution. The focus of our efforts is beyond only producing a Vision that may sit on a shelf. We reliably accomplish this by ensuring that Master Plans are not only Consensus - Based, but also Reality- Tested " �' TORTI GALLAS AND PARTNERS ii 1` WESTS /DECORR /DORSMARKET ANALYSIS AND MASTER PLAN ■■ ■■ Architects of Sustainable Community