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4,- C ( -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: Bill Schalliol, ADED Subject: Renaissance District, Phase II Project Overview Memo Date: April 5, 2012 The following is a staff memorandum on the Renaissance District Project, Phase 2. On March 13th, the Redevelopment Commission was presented with an overview presentation of the project being called "The Renaissance District." The project would be located at the southern end of downtown, bound by South Street, Lafayette Boulevard, Sample Street and Scott Street. The Renaissance District would allow Union Station Technology Center (USTC), which is now located in Union Station, to expand south of the rail tracks into the Ivy Tower building, with additional plans for a larger, dense, mixed use, community technology center. While Phase 1 of this project provided an updated power infrastructure, Phase 2 includes environmental remediation and rehabilitation of Ivy Tower. Plans for the rehabilitated space include data center environments, advanced manufacturing and rapid prototyping businesses, software development companies, and supercomputing capabilities, along with a centralized energy source to provide recycled energy for electric and thermal needs. USTC and The Renaissance District are founded on four core principles - - SPACE, POWER, CONNECTIVITY, INNOVATION. SPACE As the Union Station Technology Center grows to capacity, the next logistical step is to acquire more land and space adjacent to the rail corridor to grow the technology center. The Renaissance District project contemplates the acquisition and repurposing of the Ivy Tower complex and the former Millennium Environmental property, both located south of the tracks, for expanded technology center purposes. The total developable square footage between the Union Station facility, the Ivy Tower complex and additional new construction on the site would be over 1.3 million square feet of space. Additional land and buildings could be added to the district and there could even be a long -term push to expand connectivity of the RD into the Ignition Park campus. POWER An integral part of this project is to create an Integrated Central Power System (ICPS), which will be developed to provide conditioned and recycled energy to the various users on site. A large component of this project will be to expand the power capacity in this southern downtown area by directly connecting to the 138 KV transmission network and developing redundant substations and power conduit grids to maintain a high level of power to the site. The first energy component, which is presently in the planning stage, will be the construction of a 5 MW power connection into the RD facility with a direct conduit connection to the AEP substation on Lafayette. CONNECTIVITY The Renaissance District proposes a variety of connections in and around the district campus. First, with the vacation of United Drive, the Union Station will be connected at grade level to the Millennium site and the Ivy Tower site to allow for equipment and supplies to be safely and effectively transported between facilities. Second, the City will coordinate with the team the construction of a redundant power and conduit path around the district, which will distribute power What We Do Today Makes A Difference!