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South Bend Redevelopment Ccmission Reschedule4 Regular Meeting - April 13, 1989 6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) b. Cdntinued... Trigs and loans and then ask the payers to bail them out. Now, the fit for the merchants on the 2et ... we've stated our plan, which is ple ... retain all buildings, with the sption of maybe one or two. And we ad for technical advice on rehabbing buildings and everything was turned i. Nobody listened. You neighbors B your awn plan. 'That's what this 1 is. A Near Westside Neighborhood i. I don't know where South Bend itage is at today. They used to be )lved in heritage of historical homes areas and buildings. They've had Sandocks building now for two years, h Mr. Gilbert stood in front of the ity Comrnissioners and took it off the sale because they could do something 1 it. Mr. Gilbert hasn't done ping with it, except gone to an ineer now anddsays that it would cost much to fix it up, therefore we can it down. Now maybe that decision 1't been made, but if that cost ire comes in at less than $100 per ire foot, then maybe you ought to ib the building. Maybe you ought to the new museum that everybody is so i in- the -sky about down in the locks building at a far less cost i the $7,000,000 that you're )using. And then we'll have some :orical tourists cane down on West ungton. And you can forget your I issue on building behind the Oliver -ion. I think the Oliver Mansion stand on its own as a tourist :action. It doesn't make people id up here and say economic !lopment. And housing, housing is economic development. It creates ctruction jobs tei porarily, and then are gone. And your proposing in i A to tear down connercial space. housing. That's absurd. Wherever attitude is coming from, and it's -32-