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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Reschedule4 Regular Meeting - April 13, 1989 6. NEW "INESS (Cont.) b. Cdntinued... . then I'll be finished. Another blem. You can't sell any property re. Down on Walnut Street, on the ner of Walnut and Colfax, we have two ely homes that you could market. If y were in any other area, you could ket those. You can't do it. One .y now is in a nursing home. She ds the money. But she cannot sell home. This program, or plan, will a long way to eliminate such things that. Thank you. . Nimtz: We'll take one more speaker favor of this Plan and then we'll art to hear opponents. uvenia Cain: Mr. Nimtz and IOUVENIA CAIN REdevelopment Commission. I am Louvenia Cain and I've lived in the community for thirty-five years. When we bought our home there, it was convenient to have everything we wanted because of the stores and so forth. And since then it gone down and I'd like to read to you what it was then and what it is On the north side of Washington Street we had a bakery shop, St. Vincent de Paul Society, a grocery store, a drug ore, three doctors, MD, and one dentist. And we had the Willis Liquor Store or carry -out. You bought your liquor and whatever you were going to buy and you got in your car and went auay with it. We had a cafe. We had cleaners. We had a variety store. We had a bowling alley. We had a paint re. We had Sandocks Furniture Store, a 5hoe repair shop, a florist store, and thB Post Office, and an insurance ag mcy. And now on the north side, we ha e a liquor store and a body shop and a mrbecue cafe who sells barbecue in evenings. On the south side thirty ye n7s ago, we had the Nyikos Tavern, a gr)ceteria, a lounge, the union hall, a hat1ware store, Happy Days Tavern, and -30-