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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting - December 17, 1993 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) <br />e. continued... <br />Corridor Development Area and the Rum <br />Village Industrial Park, with adjacent <br />residential areas to their east to create the <br />Sample -Ewing Development Area. The new <br />development area is approximately 2,400 <br />acres. It is sub - divided into five sub -areas <br />for planning purposes: the Rum Village <br />Industrial District, the Studebaker Corridor, <br />the Indiana - Sample Industrial Corridor, Rum <br />Village Neighborhood, and the Southeast <br />Neighborhood. <br />Mr. Magliozzi pointed out that this area is in <br />what was the historical industrial and <br />residential heart of South Bend. The <br />Southeast Neighborhood and the Rum Village <br />Neighborhood are among the oldest <br />neighborhoods in South Bend. They <br />originally housed the employees of the <br />businesses located in the large industrial <br />areas. The commercial areas along Indiana <br />Avenue and Main and Michigan Streets <br />developed logically between the workers <br />homes and their employment. With the <br />demise of Oliver Chilled Plow, Studebaker, <br />and White Farm, the neighborhoods declined <br />dramatically, especially the Southeast <br />Neighborhood. There has been a significant <br />drop in the number of housing units as well <br />as in the value of the housing. <br />With the decline in the neighborhoods, the <br />commercial area also declined. There are <br />many abandoned or under - utilized industrial <br />buildings in the Studebaker Corridor and the <br />Rum Village Industrial Park has never fully <br />-11- <br />