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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting —March 8, 2011 <br />complex storytellers, depending on the <br />subject matter but it's what Blue Waters <br />Group specializes in. Blue Waters Group has <br />an office in Innovation Park with three <br />people working there. The work calls for <br />Blue Waters Group to be here in Innovation <br />Park and working with such companies as <br />Graham Allen Partners and the emerging <br />Data Realty and with all the people at <br />Innovation Park, maintaining relationships, <br />across the street at Notre Dame in many <br />areas especially in engineering. A <br />relationship also with Project Future. When <br />at the table with Ms. Hathaway, Mr. Gibney, <br />Mr. Price and others, Blue Waters Group is <br />sitting as part of a much bigger team than <br />that because of their relationship with all <br />those entities in town, in this market, in this <br />whole initiative and pulling in the same <br />direction. The idea being that South Bend <br />could in fact be positioned as a new center of <br />research and technology and innovation after <br />many years of wanting to hope and believe in <br />something good happening here against its <br />history. Mr. Strickler believes that South <br />Bend has turned the corner. So the <br />presentation and proposal Blue Waters Group <br />prepared reflects that. <br />Mr. Strickler noted that the newsletter <br />SouthBendON has proven to be enormously <br />successful, with a lot of room for <br />improvement; but over a 1,000 people <br />subscribe to it and they are all people with a <br />vested interest in the future of South Bend. <br />It's a small number but in terms of a <br />percentage of the whole population of people <br />with a true interest in what's going on in <br />South Bend. Seventy percent of those readers <br />come from South Bend proper and thirty <br />percent from outside. Blue Waters Group <br />began to do some research among that <br />15 <br />