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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -October 17, 2008 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />C. Airport Economic Development Area <br />(4) continued... <br />already has proposals before Project Future <br />and the University of Notre Dame, which it <br />anticipates finalizing within a month's time. <br />The agency is developing aproject- <br />management system to ensure interaction, <br />coordination and collaboration among the <br />three partners. Strickler is opening an office <br />in South Bend and will be adding staff from <br />the local area to work as part of the firm's <br />team of specialists. <br />Mayor Stephen J. Luecke has assigned Tom <br />Price, Assistant to the Mayor, to allocate up <br />to half his time to manage the proposed <br />contract on behalf of the Department of <br />Community and Economic Development and <br />lead the city's marketing/communication <br />efforts in this initiative in collaboration with <br />other community stakeholders. <br />Mayor Luecke noted that just this week <br />South Bend hosted the Indiana Association <br />of Cities and Towns convention. Elected <br />officials from across Indiana were in South <br />Bend for training, etc. They were universally <br />enthusiastic about South Bend and the things <br />we have going on here. What that experience <br />made clear to the Mayor is the importance of <br />telling South Bend's story. South Bend has a <br />unique opportunity with the naming of Notre <br />Dame as the Midwest Institute of <br />Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND). It is <br />also a challenge. We're playing with the big <br />boys, now. If we want to commercialize <br />products that are developed in the research <br />park, if we want to see that growth in jobs <br />7 <br />