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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br /> Regular Meeting—July 26, 2011 <br /> 6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> D. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> (3) continued... <br /> amount of work done. We started with a <br /> blank slate for Ignition Park. The end result <br /> is something very exciting for Data Realty, <br /> beneficial for everyone involved, very <br /> functional aesthetically, but more importantly <br /> the Park will have some differentiators when <br /> it is marketed. He said he'd recently, been <br /> to a Data Center conference. There weren't <br /> any booths sponsored by states or <br /> municipalities. He asked one of the state <br /> economic developer officials why they were <br /> there. They were there to attract data centers, <br /> because data centers are the foundation of <br /> technology jobs and if you don't have data <br /> centers, you don't have tech jobs. That was <br /> what Mr. Carlton wanted to hear. South <br /> Bend is starting its technology park with a <br /> data center. He said when Data Realty <br /> approached South Bend, they asked where <br /> they could locate to have the best economic <br /> impact. <br /> Mr. Carlton said that over the last few <br /> months he has had numerous media <br /> conversations, not only about what Data <br /> Realty is doing, but more importantly the <br /> bigger story which is the transformation of <br /> the Studebaker corridor into a technology <br /> corridor. The story has been picked up in the <br /> Chicago Sun Times, Indianapolis Star and he <br /> got a call from a real estate person today who <br /> said a real estate magazine did a whole <br /> feature on the Studebaker corridor and <br /> Ignition Park. Last week he was on Fox <br /> Business Live for five minutes talking about <br /> Ignition Park nationally. Our better days as a <br /> 20 <br />