Special Exception - 121 North St. Louis Blvd.

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Filed In Glcrk's Office NORTI3I;RN IJLI;CTIC, CO. INC. FFg 5 2007 The petition of Northern Electric Co., Inc. seeking a Special Exception for a Grot P Rest etl~.~s~3?~~c~~~flE property located at 121 N. St. Louis Blvd.. This property is zoned MU-Mixed U CITY ~L'c~?.r, BUJ. BEND, ~N MR. HOWARD DOSMAN: 11G N. Hill St., South Bend and we are owners of the property at 121 N. St. Louis Blvcl. Lady and gentlemen of the Board I wish to thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am the owner of Northern Electric Company located at 116 N. Hill St Our company was first formed in 1947 and our first office was located on Ostemo Place in South Bend and then moved to Linden Ave. out by O'Brien Paint and stayed there to 1967 at which time we bought our present facility at 116 N. Hill St. I can remember the day as I stood in front of the building with my father as he opened the door after taking possession and 1 asked why him, "dad why did you buy here"? And he said "Howard someday the City is going to jump the river and the property would be worth more money and we would be able to sell and build a state of the art motor shop that would be paid for. That conversation tools place 40 years ago. We ace still at our present location but we have mixed out our facility. And our desire is to move into a 1.6 million dollars, and I know what it costs because I have been working with Panzica Construction and Company and in order for me to do this several things need to happen. Northern-Electric now employs 29 people. We are a union shop with wages and benef is approaching the $30.00 range. We repair electric motors and computer cont-olled motors for industry in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio for companies like Honeywell, AM General, Zimmer, Biomet, Whirlpool, Cools Nuclear, Kellogg's, Post Cereal, Defiance precision and Easton Aeroequip from Vanwert, Ohio plus work sent inform 39 different states for repairs by UPS. We also receive these motors from all over 5 x s ~.