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( F <f> SpUTN g o ,pl",i 1'r 71,P'6o Community & Economic Development' 1865 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. What We Do Today Makes A Difference!