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1200 County -City Building, 227 West Jefferson, South Bend, Indiana 46601 -1830 Phone 574/235 -9371 Fax 574/235 -9021
To: Redevelopment Commission
From: Bill Schalliol, Economic Development Planner
Subject: Project Update — Erskine Plaza Pond Project
Date: January 11, 2010
In an effort to create development sites on the south side to further the commercial growth,
the City of South Bend has become involved in a project to reclaim land currently being
used as a retention pond to develop the site for commercial purposes. The Erskine Plaza
Pond Project is an outgrowth of development and infrastructure planning that will create a
development parcel on Miami Street south of Ireland Road and help to create new access
into Erskine Plaza. The project will also improve the stormwater management process in
the Ireland -Miami area and will reduce overflow impacts on the existing stormwater network
and the Erskine Park Golf Course.
The purpose of this report today is to provide the Commission with an overview of the this
project and to highlight one of the larger project proposed for the use of South Side TIF
funds in 2010. The Erskine Plaza Pond Project originally started out as a concept to
remove the two drainage ponds within the Erskine Plaza commercial development to create
new development sites and to relocate the stormwater, in a controlled sequence of ponds
and structures, through the Erskine Park Golf Course. The economics of the project never
worked for the project but the need to create new sites and to resolve drainage issues
persists.
The proposed Erskine Plaza Pond project consists of removing the existing pond along
Miami, reshaping and improving the existing interior pond, and creating a new pond at the
southwest corner of Hawbaker and High Streets. Overflow from the pond will still be
directed to the stormwater system and the golf course, but the need to divert water should
be minimized by the improved pond percolation and design of the systems. The reclaimed
pond site will be filled and could become space for two new south side tenants.
The only item on the Commission agenda today is a ratification of title searches. A future
interlocal agreement between the Commission and the Board of Public Works will be
forthcoming for approval.
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