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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br /> Regular Meeting—March 13, 2012 <br /> 6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> C. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> (7) continued... <br /> was unmet demand in the community for <br /> office space for high tech businesses. His <br /> adjoining manufacturing business, Deluxe <br /> Sheet Metal, moved to a new location in an <br /> Airport Industrial Park, opening up <br /> additional space for the growing technology <br /> companies he housed, but his business has <br /> now outgrown both sites. <br /> He has long looked at the six-story Ivy <br /> Tower building of Abe Marcus directly south <br /> of the tracks from him as a possible building <br /> to expand into, but wasn't able to figure out <br /> how to make a connection to the two <br /> buildings. <br /> Now, it appears that it might be possible, <br /> with the Commission's help, to vacate United <br /> Drive to create a corridor into which to move <br /> his heavy power requirements to the other <br /> side of the tracks. Union Station is at the <br /> fundamental crossroad where he could build <br /> a larger and central power plant type <br /> structure which he has been working six <br /> years to develop. He would also purchase <br /> the Millennium Environmental parcel. That <br /> would allow him to move the core energy <br /> (Union Station) from the north side of the <br /> tracks and thereby allow him to expand the <br /> Union Station by another 20,000 sq. ft. that <br /> would have otherwise have been taken by <br /> energy systems. This is a grand opportunity <br /> to repurpose Union Station and repurpose it <br /> from an old, not optimized environment, to a <br /> new technology framework. <br /> 21 <br />