South Bend Redevelopment Commission

South Bend Police officers' Santa's Elficers program, started in 2016, has outgrown several spaces and they say buying a permanent building will help them continue to grow and serve more kids at Christmas.

The city of South Bend, after buying the State Theatre in February and repairing its roof, is listing it for sale before starting a process to request proposals from developers interested in putting the historic structure back into use.

With the number of visitors the roughly year-old Indiana Dinosaur Museum already is drawing, plus attractions it still plans to develop, city of South Bend officials say a full traffic signal at U.S. 20 and Olive Road is needed.

South Bend’s Near Northwest Neighborhood could be getting more affordable housing, thanks to a local nonprofit and the city’s redevelopment commission. Cross Community plans to build a six-unit apartment building and two single-family homes on Allen Street.

As the Indiana Governor Mike Braun administration has cut funding for child care, a St. Joseph County group plans to ask local employers to invest in a fund to help child care providers with equipment, supplies and furniture.

The South Bend city administration Thursday will ask the redevelopment commission to give Devereaux Peters a fifth extension to secure financing, and to retake the property if she doesn't have money for the project's full expected cost in hand at closing.

South Bend is looking to capitalize on redevelopment efforts in the Lincoln and Kennedy Park area. About half of the lots in the neighborhood are vacant, but that could soon change.

Creating a new housing tax incremental financing area would capture new property tax growth in the Lincoln Park and Kennedy Park neighborhoods. Instead of going into the city's General Fund, the new tax revenue would be spent on infrastructure in those two neighborhoods.

La Casa de Amistad Executive Director Juan Constantino says the nonprofit Latino advocacy group has been researching and planning the food truck commissary kitchen project for two years because South Bend lacks one.

A Marshall County Judge has set a July 24 hearing in the city of South Bend's condemnation suit against Portage Township. The two local governments can't agree on the price the city will pay the township for land it wants for parking.