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HomeMy WebLinkAbout6D (2)• n\7 Community & Economic Development 1200 County -City Building, 227 West Jefferson, South Bend, Indiana 46601 -1830 Phone 574/235 -9371 Fax 574/235 -9021 To: Redevelopment Commission From: Jeffrey Gibney, Executive Director, Community & Economic Development �Vw- Subject: Hansel Center Update / Additional Funding Request Date: June 28, 2011 On March 20, 2009, the Commission approved the use of $130,000 in CDBG and $370,000 in West Washington Chapin Development Area (WWCDA) funds, to be put toward the rehabilitation of the Hansel Center, 1045 W. Washington Street. This rehabilitation will be a joint project with the University of Notre Dame, South Bend Heritage Foundation, and the City of South Bend, with the property ultimately being transferred to the University and becoming the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture (Center). This facility will strengthen the community by celebrating cultural diversity through its provision of a common and accessible space for community programming, art, and education. The Center will provide a gathering place for the West Side community through its class and meeting rooms, gallery, and outdoor spaces. It is foreseen this Center will have a national and international reach, which will ultimately attract resources from outside the area and further strengthen the local community. The Center and its programs will enhance the vitality of South Bend's West Side, by joining in partnership with neighboring institutions: The Center for History, Studebaker National Museum, Indiana University Civil Rights Heritage Center at the Natatorium, and the Salvation Army Kroc Center, all located in the historic West Washington district. The center piece of the Center is the relocation of the internationally renowned fine -art print studio Segura Publishing, from Tempe, Arizona. This relocation will provide an unprecedented opportunity to enhance the art and legacy of printmaking in the United States. Segura's continuous history of working with community on all levels of art education will anchor and shape a significant amount of community programming, and will make the Center a nationally prominent print program with a strong focus on Latino and African American art, and Catholic religious iconography. A visiting artists -in- residency program will be established, with numerous opportunities being available for local artists and youth to participate in the printmaking workshops and programs. The Center will also provide much needed permanent space for a writer -in- residence initiative of Notre What We Do Today Makes A ONYbromm t Dame's literary program, Letras Latinas, as well as space to host gatherings of minority writers, publishers, and editors from around the country. The Center will create opportunities that bridge cultural backgrounds; allow local artists to develop and expand their skills in a supportive, collaborative environment; collaborate with the South Bend Community School Corporation to develop, implement, and assess educational programs, activities, workshops, and events that enhance and expand learning for children, adolescents, and adult learners; and provide area residents with a variety of high quality, community based education, arts, and cultural programming. This Center will allow the Institute of Latino Studies and the University of Notre Dame to expand their presence in the community, while rehabilitating an historic property, and partnering with the broader Michiana area. Attached is a short history of the Hansel Center, which began its rich story as a children's dispensary. Also attached is a spreadsheet showing the Commission's funding for the project, and WWCDA available funds. To allow this exciting project to begin, additional funding is needed. With the Commission's participation, eleven (11) different funding sources will be utilized to rehabilitate the Hansel Center. Total project costs are estimated at $2.481 million. With the original Commission approved funds of $130,000 in CDBG and $370,000 in WWCDA funding, an additional $430,000 in WWCDA funding is requested. With total allocated funds of $930,000 by the Commission, the project can soon begin. In addition, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is currently being drafted between the Redevelopment Commission, University of Notre Dame, and South Bend Heritage Foundation. It is requested that upon approval by Legal, Don Inks be authorized to sign this MOU. To recap, requested today is: • an additional $430,000 in WWCDA funding • upon Legal's approval of the MOU, Don Inks be authorized to sign on the Commission's behalf. What We Do Today Makes A Difference! City Of South Bend West Washington - Chapin Development Area Hansel Center Proposed Financing Prepared 6/23/11 Original Public Funding Commitment: West Washington TIF 370,000 Community Development Block Grant 130,000 Total Original Public Funding 500,000 Additional Requested Public Funding: West Washington TIF 430,000 Revised Total Public Funding 930,000 West Washington TIF Cash @ 6/13/11 1,151,454 Less: Original Hansel Commitment 370,000 Additional Hansel Request 430,000 Cash Available for Other Projects 351,454 Note: West Washington revenues for 2011 are expected to be $315,000 on 7/1/11 and another $315,000 on 12/31/11. { ills', ol I i III Q T wed aF� "s II3 +a= ?fie {F s�v O T2 9i pbu rl�g. �p 1�� E ':JSA ... ✓e I t s 1 1 r> , r 1' _1 Yy4 �j �.I U�. D i 4 1 ' N i a 4 x U a� a •M 11 Go LU J V �y 24 HOSMATS ff CHILDREN'S DISPENSARY 40 7, Experienced and efficient hands care for the children at the Dispensary V In Dilsease-Stricken Boys and e D i Girls Find New Ch ildr s pen'sary, Hope. Puts New L ife'In People don't throw their deform- ed, crippled children over cliffs any ,Shrivelled more. Limbs ot But suppose they did. Suppose South Bend, like ancient Sparta, decided to rid itself of ab- oung ters normal babes, and an ordinance A were passed to toss them to the elements: to die, By tomorrow, morning, if this ;were done, 3,000 maybe 4,000, in- jfant boys and. girls would be out iof the way — no longer public ,charges. The burden of caring for them would be lifted. . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . az This lief,we might call our 4 25 might have cared for It a whole year for a five- dollar bill? 0. Def"tivip - Children ypu, wo>a nQ.Jhaki cfre of ?U y W of I nn –A 4 25 n 1111EAJSny ACTION Neighborhood service Facilities L; enter ties program. The cost of operating the cen - Iter is expected to "amount to very little," according to Parent. "Organizations and volunteers Will be providing most of the, needed services,,with NSF offer -' ing any direction and help it can," he said. Clark Juday, NSF co- ordinator Of senior citizen ro p grams, will � take charge of all administrative ;work, according to Parent. Juday who in the two months he has been with the NSF pro- gram has organized two senior citizen councils, one at the! Southeast Side Center and one at. Clay Twp, Center, said his first move at St. Stephen's would be to get a council organized ... "so the people the center is for will have a say' in the operation." Activities Planned Activites at the Southeast and' Clay Centers were initiated last Friday for senior citizens with "Open house" observances in the neighborhood center's,' according to Juday. He said he hoped the St. Stephen's center would lead to what REAL officials said was aj "need" for five such centers throughout the community." Listing some of the activities' uid services planned for the cen -I er, Parent said it is hoped the I Aeration will be able to provide parttime resident nurse, one eighborhood aid, social worker, °ansportation to get the resi- ents out of the neighborhood nd into the community, as well s involving the senior citizens' t their own volunteer activities td discussion groups. Arrangements . already have `en made for Mrs. Robert Fish -' of the REAL staff to provide unselling services, and for the . Joseph County Extension rvice to organize extension ac. !ties under the direction of t s. Charles Menyhart, pres. t !nt of the Extension Service memakers. Thanksgiving baskets for nee - dy families and a contribution to United, Fund were announced to. day by the Black Press, anew organization of young Negro men whose goal is "black pride and dignity through unity." The United Fund c/hdance, n, representing a porthe proceeds from the org's latest project — a 3, at the Hansel Center — was pre sented to Tracy B. Madole, ,gen. era) chairman of this year's United Fund campign. "Our contribution to United Fund is small, but it is a begin - ning, said Curtis Owen, chair. man of the Black Press. "We're giving the Thanksgiv -I ing baskets because, as a black organization, we feel we must be' Involved directly 'in makingi black people's lives easier to live," he added. Co- Operation Is Promised The organization, according to Owen, will work in co- operation with the Office of Economic Op -! portunity funded neighborhood; centers, as well as Hansel Cen ter —which is funded by United' Community Services — to distri -1 bute the holiday baskets. In addition to its Thanksgiving) project, the Black Press ,organ - ized under the direction of Alfred P. Williams III, Hansel Center director, also is prepar- ing for a Black Arts Festival now scheduled for next year The group also hopes to extend its fund - raising projects and cul- tural programs in the effort tot inspire the "pride, dignity' and unity" it has established as a goal, according to Owen. 'Relevant to Needs' He said that the contribution to United Fund was a demon -I stration of United Fund's efforts to be "relevant to the needs of our people." S r3 -r "We'd like to see efforts of the ype represented at Hansel Cen. i er continued and expanded," said Owen. I He noted further that the Black Press has reasoned that "black people must begin to sup- port those things which are in their best interest .... and., as long as the United Fund is mak- ing efforts to meet the needs of our people, we will actively en- courage support of it." j The Hansel Center neighbor- hood program was initiated last April with a $130,040 grant ap- proved by the board of directors of United Community, �erviceS. 'Getfied i"H p In announcing the decision of the UCS board, Richard-Rosen. thal, president, said the Hansel program would be one "geared to helping people help them- selves." The grant also was approved as a means of UCS providing "bold and innovative programs .attacking the root causes of problems — not merely the symptoms." It came, too, with the promise of Rosenthal and the UCS board) that ... "this program will go on as long as it is needed. The initial grant covered nine months of operation of the Han- Bel Center program, Open house next Sunday at old No. 7 Fire Station, 803 N. Notre Dame Ave., will launch officially the operation of an anti - poverty service facilities center on South Bend's northeast side. The station last September was turned over to the city by the University of Notre Dame for use as a neighborhood cen ter. The open house, scheduled for 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., also will end a three -year struggle to establish a center on the northeast side, as well as serving to fulfill a commitment made two years ago by ACTION, Ind'., the local anti - poverty agency to open four centers with the initial Q,ai twin grant awarded. in 1967 by the Of -' fice of Economic Opportunity. ACTION in October was the recipient of $157,003 from the OEO for the second year opera- tion of its neighborhood centers Program, Station Abandoned The gift of old No. 7 by Notre Dame came in the wake of the reorganization of the war on poverty in St. Joseph County. Announcement that the old fire station would house a neighbor- hood center was made jointly by South Bend Mayor Lloyd M. Al- len and Rev. Charles McCar- ragher, C.S.C., vice - president for student affairs at the univer. I sity. The station was abandoned April 16, 1.968, as a fire house un -, der a fire station reorganization plan. The land on which it stands was deeded to the city by Notre Dame in 1903 for construction of a fire station, with the provision that it would revert to university) ownership if it ever was aban- doned for fire station use. 4 Centers Proposed In accepting the station for use as a neighborhood center, Mayor Allen predicted that important social services would be provid- ed nearby residents. When ACTION submitted its proposal seeking federal funds to establish centers, the proposal called for four centers — one on the northeast side, one in Clay TWp., one in LaSalle Park and one on the southeast side. The Southeast Center, 416 Wenger St., was the first to open — in a building turned over to United Community Services by the Cook Coffee Co., and leased to ACTION for $1 a year. Then followed the opening of centers in Clay Twp, and LaSalle Park. Efforts, however, to provide a northeast side center ran into snags. Plan Defeated As early as the summer of 1966, the Northeast Side Neighborh(Q, 1' BOOTS NEEDED - Carrie Bradley, left, planned, unl'ore used tioots are ! q11 and Mary Bryant, Hansel Center social ed.Vhe cent four pairs of boots,,%Pd at workers on detached service from Family least 150 pairs ate, needed for the exchange >�nd Children's Center, are worried that the that prevides needy families with boots lot 25 enter's annual boot exchange scheduled for cents a flair and a4i gm -out pair, ' 9,a.m. to 1 a.m. Nov. 2 will not go_ off as ' nnoi`,laY Tribune starr PnuovT �,- y TINY Wo t4.RN- CHAIRS and <ta�iniature abs were filling quickly as the smell of a hoiten and corn drew children to the R . dal± Cade cen&r cafeteria. A boy clad, in leans, :UiRd a sweatshirt with "Mart writtest,,in -Ift lhck letters acloss: baGc 1aed up from his food lust. enouga t spot a t tographer: "A you goizlg t0 take- my picture?" I he s 44 wistfully.. He- iiht not have had much to smile about,, it it weae►'t #aFIeY;Hansel N;eigh:' i borhai�d Center, , wh�eh orates three day care ceoighs .for presehool in South Bend Each cerfter is different, of all €ollow a planned 6n iculum tot ep young -minds busy vyhiie teaching- valua- -ble lessons:, Hansel Center, which offer's a, variety `ofrrilxlunty services, oversees three <ced s — Episcop Idartia and, the' anti rtg Twig. A , _ giscopal center, in :ppelration -six Yeaxs, i opened by of tile St: Jams§ pi copal cowgT gation in cooperatioo . with the �00MP#e AD16cese of Fort Wayne�South Bend silo; United Way of South Bend.-Martin center .is maki� its second -year of operation' this month, and the - Learning Twig had been open a year last October. Each center has at least four on its ;staff, including a director, according to , Wilhe Green, executive director of the Hansel Center. Volunteers from the Youth Services Bureau also help out with the approximately 60 children at Episco- pal, 40 at - Martin and 45- at Learning.`, twig 581 �-� --13 �e -#��!3 Mow day scare ce►ters ciirne frp the state U rtinent of - ?i�bho e}fare's Tin ' togram Fees ire , charged families; ose, chddrei attend ;; Mrs. Garry `Bros yi the ilagsel staff, :explained; op;ecial arrangements are. made �±r1ts who- are unable to pay. At rese <tbe Jiay care operaation is the best' ,,uruied qi'i Haisel's services, but uifla ition� aiict., t rests _ 11pye _ njade money iE; Gretri. added 4. Lro presetlily is a - waiting list_ for; who want .to attend the centers, ;fo, i radley s_�i.. " i?a>rents should- re - -- m „ tler;to 0. tout day care applicat ot€as + , Y std;, 'especially lw our. sum' finer p ",Spacg :is tight lcaus on llinute4i l :and oPe>iirigs lly'`fa gpicll * she said. , The emphasis is on learn* At, the; centers,, but crafts and. recrea'hon k. e the youngsters busy ,thr©u&out the day. And with the books,.. toys and games) available, a child is given a lot to smile * ** HOUSING NEIGHBORHOODS WEST SIDE • Nes. s ale MR C'Mms 111scusg d �t brurich IV KATHY BORLIK ibtine Stuff -Writer SOUTH BEND — Some people ome to the west side only -once a ear, for Dyngus Day. Maybe twice if there yye�a Polish wedding in :ie family. P1 Rev. Leonardbot and mem- ers of St. Adalbert Catholic ;hunch want the area of town to be nown for more than that. Chrobot was the host for a late 4onday morning Dyngus Day crunch with local politicians to talk :bout the problems and what the ieighborhood needs. *Xk jj Lt. Gov. Frank O'Bannon, South lend Mayor Joseph E. Kernan, :ouncil members and stray politi- .ians gathered around the table vith platefuls of sausage and hard - wiled eggs to hear what is pen - ng west of Chapin Street. 't; .- j Chrobot apologetically said they ilso had American potato salad. After the traditional Holy Satur- lay blessing of the food, Chrobot ;aid, the west side "needs all the )lessings it can get. "I just want the politicans to be aware of the west side" — of the )roblems, the eyesores and the strengths, Chrobot said. For example, one positive thing iappening is the neighborhood )artnership center on April 29. The ;enter is in the former Huron ?harmacy, 2202 W. Huron St. However, there are things to be !ared for, he said. "I am campaign - ng to get the Western Avenue Aaduct painted. It is the first thing tou see, and it is depressing." There are abandoned stores Tong Western Avenue and the only heater on the west side is Little Denmark, an adult theater. "There nust be 200 screens on the east side," he said. "A pothole on the east side gets ixed," while west side potholes inger, he claimed. He said that the shift in popula- tion away from the west side can- not be stopped, but Chrobot's hope s that there is no further de- .erioration. Chrobot added that the west side s .a successfully integrated. neigh - sorhood. "More integrated than Jranoer," he added. The church is j raking d statement by keeping the ►drool open. St. Adalbert's cur- the top down it doesn't work The neighborhood center is a concrete example" of involvement of people. and .agencies at work. " Any positive signs from the meeting? Feeding them is a concrete way for them to remember you the next: ,time, he said._ - B "mmTf GOODLAD HELINE _ Tribune Staff Writer Rb r �f : io --R s SOUTH BEND - They were having a party Saturday, but there weren't any balloons or cakes. Instead, there . were paint buck- ets, brushes, drop cloths and lad- ders at Hansel Neighborhood Cen- ter, 1045 W. Washington St. And plenty of energy and enthusiasm. Members of the center's board of directors and of Kappa Alpha Psi, a service and social fraternity, worked Saturday and today to re- paint the inside of the 70 -year -old building. C – A The purpose of the "painting party," as director of development Christyne Woolridge named the event, was "to spruce up Hansel Center as it celebrates its 25th an- niversary year." "We want to re- introduce Hansel Center and its services to the com- munity," said Bill Powell, president of the board, as he prepared peach - colored paint for grimy second floor walls. When an institution has been around as long as Hansel Center, people begin to forget about it or take it for granted, he said. The board and staff want to make sure the community knows about Hansel Center and its work, he said, as plans are made to up- grade and add some services. An open house and other festiv- ities will be held Oct. 20 and 21 as part of the silver anniversary cele- bration, Woolridge said. Other events during the anniversary year will include a Hanging of the Greens in December and the an- nual dinner April 11. But the first job is to fix up the building. Painting the high -ceil- inged rooms in, the large red brick structure was `a big task, but many tithed out to help. Life's been good to -Dick Coffee; so he ` wanted to give .something' Hansel Center, the city's first neighborhood service; center, . is housed in the building that. was constructed in 1925 as the Chil- dren's Dispensary and Hospital.. The dispensary worked with disad- vantaged children and mothers providing health services and child care education. C-° �L The building was named for .Dr. Charles E. Hansel, a South Bend physician and one of the founders of the Children's Dispensary in 1909. Hansel Center was started as an experimental community program hf. 1968. Through an anonymous donation, it purchased the building after it became an independent program in 1970. That year, the building went through a - $90,000 renovation that upgraded the gym, locker room, showers, offices and heating system. Since then, Hansel has de- v6loped many programs, Woolridge said. These include coordinating Head Start programs for two coun- ties; four day -care centers, with three at other sites; an active sen- ior, citizen program; the home- makers program; a food bank; a latch key program; and numerous sports and recreation activities. The building still serves the purpose for which it was built — providing service to the surround- ing community and its children, Woolridge said. Individuals and groups are in- vited to volunteer in assisting with the painting and other projects. Anyone wishing to volunteer should contact Woolridge at 234 -6041. to