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SOUTH BEND

We're Building South Bend!

Mayor Steve Luecke has guided the renaissance of South Bend, bringing $1.3 BILLION in new investments along with 1,370 new homes. South Bend has surpassed Chicago, Evansville and Kalamazoo in a national ranking of the Forbes magazine annual list of “Best Places for Businesses and Careers,” showing positive growth in economic development.

From burgeoning retail on the South Side to new housing and commercial development in the Northeast neighborhood; from new condos and restaurants downtown to expanding businesses at Blackthorn; from the clearance of dinosaur industrial building opening up land for new jobs, to high-tech infrastructure, we have a strong record of growth and development.

PROJECTS

NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST -Through partnerships, planning, and resource management, we are building a thriving South Bend:

NORTHWEST

Blackthorn/Airport

Total Investment: over $1/2 billion
400 businesses on 4,000 acres in 11 industrial parks
3,000 new jobs created
$5.6 million public infrastructure improvements

Portage Prairie - under construction

Total private investment: $378 million
500 acre mixed-use private development: residential, retail, light industrial

NORTHEAST

South Bend Clinic $35 million expansion

As a partner in the Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization Organization, the City has been part of planning significant growth in the area just south of the University of Notre Dame:

New single family home construction and renovation of existing housing
Frederickson Park & Boy Scout Training Center on former landfill
IUSB School of Medicine
Imminent groundbreaking on a $150 million residential, commercial and retail center along Eddy Street

DOWNTOWN /EAST BANK

All-American Plaza- $8 million mixed use retail, office & residential condominiums
AM General $2.5 million expansion
Baker & Daniels/KeyBank Building $7 million renovation
Chocolate Café $1.5 million expansion
Crowe Chizek
Environmental Health Labs- UL
Madison Center $40 million expansion
Memorial Hospital $120 million expansion- Heart and Surgical Centers
Morris Performing Arts/ Palais Royale restoration
Press Ganey
South Bend Civic Theatre $4 million renovation of Scottish Rite Building
South Bend Community School Corp. $8 million headquarters

WEST

$40 million grant for Kroc Family and Youth Center at Chapin and Western
AJWright Distribution Center
Studebaker National Museum
Studebaker/Oliver Industrial Park reclamation - over 3.5 million sq. ft. of blighted industrial buildings demolished, opening 160 acres of brownfield sites to productive economic use
$15 million new Transpo maintenance facility
$1.5 million Rose Brick & Material
New and refurbished homes in Near Northwest and W. Washington neighborhoods

SOUTH

Erskine Commons & Village retail centers: $60 million of retail investment on 108 acres, some of which was landfill
New residential spin-off: Royal Oaks & Lafayette Falls housing developments
Closed four adult businesses