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Letter from the Mayor Mayor's Letter Silver Hawks
New data Center to launch at Ignition Park Earth & Arbor Day City Events
Ignition Rain Barrel Auction Ag Days
Dear Friends and Neighbors, Neighborhood Resources Corporation
Clean Your Files Day
With snow on the ground,I recently attended my first"graduation ceremony" 16th Annual River Cleanup
of the year. The graduate wasn't from one of our educational institutions,but a
company emerging from Innovation Park at Notre Dame,which is seeking to • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • %
build bridges between university research and developing companies. The • •
graduating company,Data Realty LLC,announced the construction of a new ODT=GII Zi •
50,000-square-feet data center in Ignition Park. This will be the fast private, •
high-tech business in Ignition Park. • •
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It's been exciting to see Innovation Park's growth—more than 30 new client •
companies in the 15 months since the park opened. But this graduation ceremony • •
confirmed what was anticipated in joint plans for South Bend's state-certified Opening Day
technology park by the University of Notre Dame,Project Future and the City of • Monday, April 11th, 6:30p •
South Bend.We envisioned a dual-site technology park,where ventures • Silver Hawks vs. •
conceived at 12-acre Innovation Park at Notre Dame would launch,put down Lansing Lugnuts
roots and grow at Ignition Park with as many as 140 acres in the former "• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Studebaker Corridor. t
Already,we have had significant public investment at Ignition Park.By the end
of 2011,we will have removed more than 2.5-million square feet of obsolete
Studebaker buildings—the most comprehensive brownfield cleanup in Indiana.
Transpo opened the nation's first LEED Platinum transit center,setting a high PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
standard with the first public facility in Ignition Park. Soon,a world-class data Apr.2 R&B Comedy Explosion
center will service small and mid-sized businesses in South Bend and throughout with the Whisperers 8p
the Midwest from Ignition Park. Construction will begin this spring and could be Apr.8 Styx,Blue Oyster Cult&
complete soon after the last of the demolition on the Ignition Park campus. Mark Famer 8p
The City's Redevelopment Commission will work in partnership with Data Realty Apr.9 South Bend Symphony
to help the data center meet architectural and design standards for Ignition Park, Orchestra Presents:
including a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) designation. "Variations on a Theme" 8p
We also are collaborating with Data Realty to create a unique energy exchange Thomas Huntington on Violin
partnership with Transpo's adjacent facility. Transpo's geothermal system would Nathan Warner on Trumpet
provide some of the base cooling capacity for the data center as exhaust heat from Apr. 15 Celtic Woman. 8:00p
Data Realty's servers would provide supplemental heat for Transpo. Apr. 17 An Evening with Bill Maher
Ignition Park is a highly desirable location for data centers—especially with our 7:30p
substantial and affordable electric power,and the Metronet's redundancy and Apr. 29-30 Broadway Theater League:
reliability.Data Realty's President,Rich Carlton,said these factors provide a "Legally Blonde: The Musical"
competitive edge that will position South Bend for the next wave of computing. Fri. 8p, Sat. 2p and 8p
May 1 Jimmy Webb"Just Across
Like the curving roofiine in the Transpo facility,Ignition Park is the bridge the River" 7p
between South Bend's past and future. It connects us to our history as a May 5 An Evening with Garrison
world-famed manufacturing center with innovative companies like Studebaker Keillor 7p
and Bendix. And it points us to our promising future—a future rooted in May 7 Darius Rucker. 8:00p
entrepreneurship,technology, scientific research and other innovations that are
powering the new economy in South Bend. South Bend's future has begun at Continued on reverse
Ignition Park.
Please recycle this paper and help
Sincerely, �� , �,� Build a Clean - Green City!
City Events continuedfrom front Clean IOU Plus Save the Date
Century Center �{` 0 Friday, May 6'h 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Apra 11 Actor,Actor-A Staged- your U ® original Art Rain Barrel Auction
Reading. 7:30p Files Twelve area artists and artist groups,
May 9 The Grapes nWrath p including many students and buddies from
Staged-Reading. 7:30p Day My Contribution South Bend Schools'Special Needs and
South Bend Civic Theater to earth Day Abilities Preschool (SNAP), are busily
2011
April 1-10 The Piano Teacher Wed. painting 55-gallon
and Thurs. 7:30p,Fri. & Thursday,April 21 plastic containers
Sat. 8p, Sun. 3p College Football Hall of Fame converted for use
South Bend Museum of Art 7:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m. as rain barrels. The
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April 16 barrels 16 Family Day Bring your documents for secure will be on display at
Downtown South Bend shredding and recycling! 50 lbs. local businesses
April DTSB First Fridays—with free (approx. 1-2 file boxes) (the SNAP barrel
singer Venifia Sekema Additional secure documents can be will be displayed at
5:30-8:30p shredded for 15¢ per lb.For more Madison, Hamilton and Darden Schools)
April 16: Egg Stravaganza.Celebrate information,call the Solid Waste March-April. They then go to the South Bend
Spring in downtown with a Management District at 235.9971. Museum of Art for two weeks where they will
day full of fun activities Sponsoredhy the city of South send be sold at public auction* on May 6th at 7p.
for kids and families. Solid Waste Management District (*Evening attire and garden gloves
Borden Waste AwaySe"ice,Ina recommended but not required!)
Center for History central Files,Ina
April Gallery Talk: From r s This project's goal is to raise awareness of
Underground Railroad to 16th Annual °t °oA water as a natural resource and to
Sundown Towns.2p RiVer E� demonstrate how homeowners can save
` money while protecting the St. Joe River and
River Bend Film Festival
Clean-Up »� watershed by capturing water in a rain barrel.
April 1-2: at Century Center. The only e
independent film festival of The Friends of the vPa Proceeds from the sale of each barrel will be
St.Joe River will °av rt`° split between the Center for a Sustainable
its kind in Northern Indiana. Future and the artist or artist groups.
For more information,visit host the annual htto://www.iusb.edu/�csfuture
RiverBendFilmFest.org river bank clean-up on Saturday,
April 2 from 9:00 AM until 1:00
Neighborhood PM Ag Days Annual Event
Check in station will be at Veterans
Resources Corporation Memorial Park near IUSB. Trash bags Friday, March 25th, 9:00 am to 6:00
If you are interested in exploring and drinking water will be provided. pm, Saturday,March 26th, 10:00 am
ways that homeowners,landlords, and Volunteers should dress appropriately to 6:00 pm, and Sunday, March 27th
tenants can work together to build with long sleeve shirts,work clothes, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
better neighborhoods,please join the and gloves.Any additional tools such Free admission and parking at the
NRC Landlord/Tenant Committee as pickup trucks,wheelbarrows,rakes, St. Joseph County Fair Grounds. Kids and
on the third Wednesday of each sledge hammers,chains,pick axes, families will learn how to plant a
month,5:45 p.m.,NRC offices,201 etc... are welcome.A nail stuck in an mini-garden at the special "Grow Green
S.William Street. If you would like old tool handle works well for picking Victory Garden" display featuring
more information or plan to attend the up trash without bending over,and flowers,veggies, and herbs grown at the
March 29th Neighborhood Round- takes about 5 minutes to make. Potawatomi Park Conservatories and
table meeting,please contact Diana at For more information, call Mike Hay Greenhouses. Hands-on activities
287.0425 or at 5 74.2 71.09 73 or visit featuring milking a cow,digging up a
nrcneighborsAmmail.com. www.fotsjr.org carrot,watching a chicken lay an egg,pet
a horse, adopt a cat or dog,and more. 4-H
Earth &Arbor Day Festival 2011 ri - enrollments for animals,gardening,and
Sat.April 16, 10 am-2 pm at Howard Park, South Bend more fun projects will be offered all three
Events include the blessing of the animals at 9:30 am �`` days. For more information,contact
followed by the "Walk the Dog"river trail walk to Diana Mendelsohn at the 4-H Office
benefit local animal organizations,planting of the dmendels @purdue.edu or 574.235.9604.
official City of South Bend Tree City tree at noon,
with many exhibits and displays in the ice skating SI USTED NO ENTIENDE INGLES Y NECESITA AYUDA PARA
rink as well as around the park. TRADUCIR ESTE DOCUMENTO,O SI HENE ALGUNA PREGUNTA,
Info: djmendelsohn(a),aol.com or 277.7456 PORFAVORLLAME AL TELEFONO(574)235-5858 X 1000.