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Home My WebLink About02-2009 NewsletterFEBRUARY 2008 Letter from the Mayor Dear Friends and Neighbors, Human activity often slows in the winter months. Like our animal counterparts, some of us take refuge from the cold or fly south for warmer temperatures. But there is no hibernating for the City of South Bend's efforts to land new businesses, especially high -tech enterprises and nanotechnology firms. Last spring, it was announced that the University of Notre Dame would host the newest national research center for the world's leading computer chip makers, the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND). Since that announcement, we have aimed to strike when the iron is hot — even when the mercury seems to disappear from the thermometer. The most visible impact is happening along Angela Boulevard, across from the Notre Dame campus and just east of the Eddy Street Commons development. Iron girders give shape to the first building for Innovation Park at Notre Dame. With assistance from the City of South Bend, Innovation Park represents a portion of Indiana's first two -site State - Certified Technology Park. Innovation Park will facilitate commercialization for all forms of research at Notre Dame, the Indiana University School of Medicine in South Bend and other institutions of higher education. When it opens this fall, the three -story building on the 12 -acre site will act as a way station for emerging companies as their ideas are transformed into viable market ventures. In a year or two, as these ventures outgrow their space at Innovation Park, they will need a place to put down roots and expand their businesses. They can experience a seamless transition with continuing support by moving to the other portion of South Bend's two -site State - Certified Technology Park: Ignition Park. We recently celebrated a key milestone in this development with the formal naming of the 83 -acre Sample Street site as Ignition Park. The site, southeast of Sample and Chapin streets in the former Studebaker Corridor, has been a place where the City of South Bend has mounted Indiana's most aggressive environmental restoration effort, removing deteriorated buildings that blighted the landscape. It's where Studebaker once inspired with its traditions of quality, reliability and innovative styling. But it's also where vacant and underutilized buildings reminded us of layoffs and projected a rust -belt image. Ignition Park will recapture the proud history of this area with efforts under way to capture jobs and investment that are a portion of the projected $1 trillion U.S. nanoelectronics industry. What are South Bend's chances to succeed? Jeffrey Welser, director of the Semiconductor Research Corp.'s Nanoelectronics Research Initiative, made these comments in recent articles appearing in many nanoelectronics publications: "When I look back to March 2008 when we announced the location of MIND in South Bend, and when I look at the progress that has been made since then, including establishing Ignition Park and Innovation Park, it reaffirms — without any doubts — that we made exactly the right decision.... Cities typically have not played the kind of active role that South Bend has when it comes to establishing these types of centers.... South Bend is positioning itself to be at the ground level of these new ground- breaking industries." So while temperatures may seem cold, South Bend is regarded by some within the nanoelectronics industry as a hot place for potential development. Sincerely, P. S. For more articles related to Ignition Park, visit our web site: www.SouthBendIN.gov � l so, THIS MONTH... Mayor's Letter Morris PAC Spring Schedule Restore Michiana Spring Cleanup 2009 14th Annual River Cleanup St. Paddy's Day Tent Party & Pub Tour Composting Workshop • 7Xe • • • PERFORMING ARTS CENTER • • 2009 SPRING SCHEDULE • • March • • ♦ Gordon Lightfoot 8:00 PM, • • Thursday, March 12 • ♦ The 25th Annual Putnam • • • County Spelling Bee Friday, • • March 13 at 8:00 PM & • • Saturday, March 14 at 2:00 PM • • & 8:00 PM • • ♦ South Bend Symphony Pops! • • Presents • • "Photochoreography" • • 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 21 • • April • • ♦ South Bend Symphony • • Orchestra Presents "Sacred • • Spring: A Choral Festival" • • 8:00 PM, Saturday, April 4 • • ♦ Annie Friday, April 10 at • • 8:00 PM & Saturday, April 11 • • at 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM. • • • ♦ Riverdance Tuesday, April 14 • at 7:30 PM & Wednesday, • • April 15 at 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM • • ♦ Umphrey's McGee 8:00 PM, • • Saturday, April 18 • • May • • ♦ South Bend Symphony • • Orchestra Presents: "Magical Melodies" 8:00 PM Saturday, • • May 16 • • For more information, please call • • the Morris Box Office at 574 -235- • • 9190 or visit morriscenter.org • The 4th Annual SPRING CLEAN UP 2009 RESTORE MICHIANA RECYCLE BOOKS - CELL PHONES - EYE GLASSES - SHOES Saturday, March i4, 2009 St. Joe Joe High School, South Bend SPRING IS IN THE AIR: It's time to clean out those 8:3o am -4:00 pm • basements, closets, attics, bookshelves, boxes and cabinets. The Fall Book ■ Restore Michiana is ■ Collection netted 3 tons of books, 200 cell phones, 50 pairs of shoes, and 100 � • pairs of eyeglasses that were donated to area nonprofit agencies for reuse. ■ a day long J" I IC111ANA oo SHOE COLLECTION: All shoes must be paired and with rubber bands program of "' seminars and workshops that � around them, please NO: jelly or plastic shoes, golf or cleated shoes, western ■ boots, roller skates, bedroom slippers, or shoes with tears, grass stains, dirt or provide practical preservation solutions and how -to tips and general wear. techniques for properly maintaining ■ BOOK COLLECTION: only morally appropriate books accepted. They will your old house and /or knowing how be put to good use rather than wastefully being dumped into the landfill. to choose and work with your CELL PHONES: donated to the Women's Shelter for emergency use. contractors. ■ EYE GLASSES: donated to the Lions. Topics include: Painting Techniques, ■ Please drop -off all items at the District Office at 621 East Jefferson Blvd. Interior Wood Work, Working with Monday thru Friday, March 23 thru March 27 8:00 - 4:30 or the Household Contractors, Great Gardens, , h Hazardous Waste facility at 1105 East 5 Street in Mishawaka Tuesday thru Restoring Wood Windows, Historic Saturday, March 24 thru March 28 8:30 - 3:30. Porches, Home Security, and Masonry. ■ If you are unable to meet the above schedule; please contact Jessica Spenner at ■ 245 -6604 for further assistance. Donations will be accepted until April 1, 2008. Registration: $25 in advance, $30 walk -in. Fee includes boxed lunch. ; Sponsored by the Solid Waste Management District For additional information please ■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■■■■■■■ call: 235 -9798 or 232 -4534 or visit: www.restoremichiana.com : 14th Annual River Clean -Up 4.0 ■ Sponsored by: Historic Preservation Commission of South send & St. Joseph County, and Historic The Friends of the St. Joe River will host the 14th Landmarks Foundation of Indiana ■ annual river bank clean -up on Saturday, March„, FREE COMPOSTING 28, 2009 from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM ■ ¢r° WORKSHOP ■ Check in station will be at Veterans Memorial Park near IUSB. Trash bags and Saturday, March 28, 2009 drinking water will be provided. Volunteers should dress appropriately with long sleeve shirts, work clothes, and gloves. Any additional tools such as pickup trucks, A free composting ■ wheelbarrows, rakes, sledge hammers, chains, pick axes, etc... are welcome. A nail information session stuck in an old tool handle works well for picking up trash without bending over, with Rick Glassman and takes about 5 minutes to make. of Soil and Water - Conservation District ■ For more information, call Mike Hay at 574- 271 -0973 or visit www.fotsjr.org will take place at the■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ St. Joseph Public ,1 Library in the Colfax Auditorium from ■ St. Paddy's Day Tent Party & Pub Tour 10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. You will receive i a free backyard composting bin �` Friday, March 13th 5:00 -11:00 PM compliments of the Solid Waste ■ ■ One Michiana Square Management District. Reservations only, (in the 300 block of South Michigan St.) so call now and reserve a seat at ■ 574- 291 -2300 ext.3. By attending the $5 at the door. Must be 21+ to enter. spring workshop, you will be eligible to ■ win a deluxe compost bin, The Earth ■ • Tent Party live performance by Stillshot Machine, in a special prize drawing. • Hosted by Tommy Carroll from 103.9 WRBR ■ • Festive food, drinks, and fun SI LISTED NO ENTIENDE INGLES Y NECESITA ■ • Pub Tour: Free Trolley rides to participating pubs AYl1DA PARA TRADl1CIR ESTE DOCl1MENTO, O 31 ; • Join over 3000 other people for this spectacular event C, J4 TIENE ALGLINA PREGUNTA, PDR FAVOR LLAME AL ■ TELEFONO (574) 235 -5858 X IOOO. • For more information, call 574- 282 -1110 or visit www.paddyparty.com Sponsored by Downtown South Bend, Inc. hisit Our Website at www SoutliBendIN.gov!