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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –March 20, 2009 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> <br />D. West Washington-Chapin Development Area <br /> <br />(1) continued… <br /> <br />Development Area (WWCDA). Hansel <br />Center is located at 1045 W. Washington <br />Street, across the street from the Engman <br />Natatorium and future site of the IUSB <br />Center for Civil Rights. <br /> <br />Hansel Center is an historic landmark <br />building in the West Washington / Chapin <br />Street National Historic District. It was built <br />in 1925 as a Children’s Dispensary, and later <br />served as a neighborhood center and as the <br />administrative offices for Head Start. It has <br />been vacant since August 2003 and has been <br />vandalized by scrappers. <br /> <br />A proposed joint venture between the City of <br />South Bend and University of Notre Dame <br />would rehabilitate the building to house the <br />Notre Dame Center for Art and Culture, <br />which would house the Institute for Latino <br />Studies, Segura Publishing (a fine art print <br />house which would relocate here from <br />Tempe Arizona), among numerous other <br />print and arts related community and <br />university projects. <br /> <br />Total project cost for renovation is estimated <br />to be $1.3 million. Notre Dame’s <br />commitment, pledged by private donors, <br />would be approximately $800,000, and <br />would be used for the extensive remodeling <br />that would be required of this brick building <br />and its carriage house and grounds. <br /> <br />The City’s commitment would be $500,000 <br />for exterior work and purchase of the <br /> 11 <br /> <br />