South Bend

After the Rabbi Shulman Apartments are demolished by mid-April, the city of South Bend, South Bend Housing Authority and Community Foundation of St. Joseph County will partner in a new $43 million rental housing development.

The money comes to the state from the Lilly Endowment, as part of Indiana's regional approach to economic development launched under former Gov. Eric Holcomb.

Roxann Reasor's plan to move the 1892 Z. Crepeau Building a couple of blocks south would reunite it with a former neighbor.

University of Notre Dame lead paint expert Heidi Beidinger says she was pleasantly surprised to see a company publicly held accountable for violating federal lead paint regulations, but she says the $10,000 that Homeworks Construction is paying to settle the suit is a "slap on the wrist."

George Garner, with Indiana University South Bend's Civil Rights Heritage Center, says the building initially housed offices for Black professionals before later serving as a pool hall and recreation center offering then-"seedy" things like a daily numbers game.

The Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend says it has raised $4.5 million of $5.5 million it needs to build a facility for rare Amur tigers and leopards from Asia.

The city of South Bend's Office of Sustainability has been planning to receive $3 million in federal grants to fund a new rooftop solar program for up to 150 income-qualified households.

South Bend Common Council Member Ophelia Gooden-Rodgers has called a public meeting Aug. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the MLK Dream Center to hear from west side businesses and residents hurt by the Western Avenue Kroger store's July 22 closure.

The South Bend Reparatory Justice Commission hopes to receive feedback and input at two more public meetings, Aug. 9 and 23, before sending a final report to the common council by Dec. 31.

The city of South Bend expects to spend at least $17 million to remove PFAS, commonly known as "forever chemicals" from drinking water pumped at its North Station in Leeper Park. It will next begin work at the Pinhook station.