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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Me ting November 16, 1979 7. PROGRESS REPORTS a. Mr. Brademas continues... Finatty, it has been ,indicated by Redevetapment Comm-i 6z ion ne resentativens that a thiAd teatson _4ori wanting to demozish the bu-i ed ing was to insutze that thete would not be any com- peAi,tive o 4j ice space when-the new Fi ust Bank Buitd.ing was occupied. 143. .in 4act, that ' i6 one a4 the tat ionatets 4or tUz ptoposed decision, we wowed �stAongZy zugge6t that a pu t�:c entity has no businezz in attempting to sti4te com- p e�i "on by deAstAoying a buitding that ctea4ty eoued be ,su ee6qu2y renovated in ondet to insute that another b4Wng, the present >bnt Bank, wowed not have the Odd owes &dUing as competition. In .summaAy, the Roevse Ame scan City Cotcponation teporrt, w ch Nit. Nemeth has ptedged to the Common Councit to Jo ow, ctea,,ty states that .iJ a via.b.ee devetopeA can be 4o nd, and ceAt.ainZy one has been 4ound, that the Odd fi ow,s Bu itding shout-d be renovated and that it can seAve the, commun-ity wett. It iz not an ovetstatement to say that the desttuetion o4 the, Odd 1=eUows Bu%tding wowed be nothing �shoAt o6 a commu- y tragedy and would botcdeA on the csr im-inat. CeAtainty the ;irl te&etsts o4 the vast ma j otd t y o A the citizens of South Bend who would be beneJ ted today and gak yeatrs to ca e by the tenovation o4 the Odd FeUowz Bui.edi.ng Ahoutd o0weigh the detsi ets o4 those handout a4 pets ones who, 40n S o e unexpta fined neaps o n, Wish to demot-us h this J,i.ne bui t d.i.ng . We ask that the Commizz.i,on &eject the sta44 teeommendat .on and, a4teA going through the 4oAmat ities o6 &ej ect i.ng the pt pozatz that have been received, enter into negotiations with ups jot the acquisition and tenovation of the Odd E ow:s Buitding into asttuctuAe that every citizen in the co munity can be kightJuUy proud o4. Mr. Nimtz: Thank you Brooks. Brooks and I discussed this matter yesterday, and I told him I think the thing got messed up in the translation, just as Mr. Wagoner said in his newspaper story about the question of space.. I think thE point was that it was a question of what Paula has said here, it would be Class B office space possibly, and would not be able to compete with the other office space. I don't think it was a matter of cutting down the competition, I think it was a question of whether it would be rentable or not. So that Pete can vote here.we will continue to listen to pe ple, I think I feel the pulse of this group, that we're going to accept the recommendation of the Mayor -elect -31