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Michael Divita

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4 years

BREAKING: Tonight, the South Bend Common Council has passed an ordinance eliminating all minimum off-street parking requirements citywide, making it the largest city in the Midwest to do so.

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Michael Divita

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Last year, South Bend began offering pre-approved building plans to support infill housing by local small-scale developers. The first house built under this effort is now nearing completion on Harrison Avenue. This is the Narrow House I, Option A model. More homes to come.

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Michael Divita

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News: today, the South Bend Redevelopment Commission approved a purchase agreement to buy Union Station from a private party; the City will explore returning passenger rail service (Amtrak) to downtown after a half-century hiatus.

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This is your periodic reminder that street design impacts community quality. Dr. MLK Jr. Boulevard South Bend 2015➡️2023

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2 years

Exciting news as South Bend unveils its latest initiative to promote infill housing: free pre-approved building construction plans. Carriage houses, detached houses, duplexes, and six-unit apartment buildings are among those included in the catalog.

Build South Bend: Pre-Approved Building Plan Sets - South Bend, Indiana

To support neighborhood infill and economic opportunities for locals, the City of South Bend is offering a set of pre-approved building types at no cost. This resource assists with small [...]Read...

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Michael Divita

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2 months

A few years ago, Google Streetview captured a picture of a woman on a bike trying to cross South Bend's LaSalle Avenue at the East Race Trail. Seemingly on her way to work, she would have to brave four lanes of fast-moving traffic to do so. Here's that same spot now.

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Michael Divita

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Today, South Bend awarded a $5.6 million contract for Notre Dame Av. streetscape work (Angela Blvd.-South Bend Av.). Project includes curbs, sidewalks, paving, bumpouts, utilities, trees, lighting, and protected bike lanes -- with all crossings raised (yeah, you're jealous!).

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Michael Divita

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2 years

South Bend's recently adopted Northeast Neighborhood Plan proposes a high-quality direct connection between downtown and Notre Dame for people on foot and bicycle.

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1 year

@Hoosierism As the plans are designed for context-sensitive infill development, they lean toward the traditional. However, there are some modern styles and variations are encouraged.

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Michael Divita

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4 months

Conventional traffic engineering: "You can't put a raised intersection on an arterial street." South Bend:

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Michael Divita

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2 years

South Bend is likely seeing its biggest burst of urban duplex construction in nearly a century. Housing and construction costs, market trends, and local zoning reform are conspiring to encourage them.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

South Bend has its lowest unemployment rate in at least 30 years. According to the latest figures (preliminary December 2021 data), unemployment has plunged to 1.9%.

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9 months

New today in South Bend: The Coal Line Trail's bike/ped bridge over the St. Joseph River is open.

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1 year

@rileychoe1 Local nonprofit housing organization. Community development corporation. Property investor who wants to build new. Person who cares about his/her city. A neighbor. You.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

UAW Local 9 S. Michigan Street South Bend

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Michael Divita

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2 years

The first two buildings in what will be only South Bend's second cottage court are now under construction on Harrison Avenue. Made up of a group of small detached homes arranged around a shared courtyard visible from the street, a cottage court was last built here a century ago.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Ten years ago today, some foreshadowing: On April 24, 2012, Mayor @SecretaryPete joins South Bend city planning staff to unveil a new bicycle wayfinding sign system as the @SBTranspo Route 7 bus whooshes by on its way to South Street Station.

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Michael Divita

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Another building using South Bend's pre-approved housing plans is under construction: a stacked duplex on Sherman Avenue in the Near Northwest Neighborhood.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

St. Joseph River Leeper Park, South Bend

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Michael Divita

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9 months

Merry Christmas from South Bend!

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Michael Divita

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1 year

For the next installment of South Bend urban street archeology: with LaSalle Avenue construction, we find a brick street and remnants of the streetcar tracks.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Former Mulligan's on South Bend Avenue is to be cleared for Sideline Flats, a mixed-use project including retail space and 27 condos.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

With Monday's South Bend Common Council approval, a new Monroe Park|Edgewater Neighborhood Plan is adopted. The plan proposes an urban neighborhood at the Crowe/Press Ganey/post office parking lots, extending the West Bank Trail, and removing SR 23 highway ramps for new housing.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

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New curbs completed on South Bend Avenue. The north curbline has shifted to narrow the street and make room for a shared-use path, the middle leg of the trail connecting downtown South Bend and the University of Notre Dame.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Celebrating 2 years without off-street parking mandates in South Bend! This has encouraged neighborhood revitalization without causing any problems. Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Ann Arbor have followed in making this important policy change. Who's next? @Parking_Reform

Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

4 years

BREAKING: Tonight, the South Bend Common Council has passed an ordinance eliminating all minimum off-street parking requirements citywide, making it the largest city in the Midwest to do so.

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Michael Divita

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5 months

New South Shore schedule starts May 14. One train added each way between South Bend & Chicago each weekday. Travel time between the two cities drops to about 1 hr, 49 min for express trains & 1 hr, 58 min for standard service -- 25 min and 37 min less, respectively, than today!

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Michael Divita

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1 year

View details and the complete catalog:

Build South Bend: Pre-Approved Building Plan Sets - South Bend, Indiana

To support neighborhood infill and economic opportunities for locals, the City of South Bend is offering a set of pre-approved building types at no cost. This resource assists with small [...]Read...

southbendin.gov

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

1 year

South Bend Summer(ish) Saturday

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

8 months

This Rex Street duplex now under construction is the fourth building -- and first multiunit structure -- done through South Bend's pre-approved housing plans.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

10 months

New protected bike lanes (2-way, sidewalk-level cycletrack) taking shape along South Bend's LaSalle Avenue

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1 year

South Bend Union Station (1929, Fellheimer & Wagner) With rail service to the building ending in 1971, it has a longer history of being something other than a train station than being one.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

Construction now underway to transform the much-hated Notre Dame Avenue-South Bend Avenue intersection Out: wide, fast streets, ped-unfriendly crossing, 2-way stop In: raised intersection with tight corners, crossing for future shared-use path extension, 4-way stop

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Michael Divita

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Construction is nearly complete on the Near Northwest Neighborhood's side-by-side duplex on DeMaude Avenue in South Bend. Units will rent for $900, including utilities, for households making up to 80% of area median income.

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Michael Divita

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Out: 4-lane, one-way state highway, dangerous and devoid of life In: 3-lane, two-way walkable local street with protected bike lane and millions of dollars in private investment

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

9 months

What a perfect day in South Bend to preview the new LaSalle Avenue protected bike lanes.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

The changing leaves of South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

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The last time Union Station was fully utilized for passenger rail was the morning of May 1, 1971, the day Amtrak began operations. Penn Central No. 27, westbound to Chicago, arrived an hour late, picked up no passengers, and departed two minutes later. 📸: SB Tribune, 5/2/1971

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

Not only did South Bend's Northside Trail upgrade provide a great bike/ped amenity, but it also provided great views, both urban and natural.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

5 months

Today, South Bend awarded a $4.1 million contract for South Bend Av./Hill St. streetscape work (Notre Dame Av. to LaSalle Av). Project includes curbs, sidewalks, paving, utilities, trees, lighting, and a shared-use path. And, oh yeah, all of the trail's crossings are raised.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

Revitalizing a Rust Belt city is often a property-by-property undertaking. Another one done. Western Avenue, South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

4 months

Final pavement striping being installed on LaSalle Avenue in South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

Summer Sunset South Bend

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Michael Divita

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8 months

Celebrating 3 years without off-street parking mandates in South Bend! Another year of not missing them. Another year smoothing the way for more affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization. @Parking_Reform

Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

4 years

BREAKING: Tonight, the South Bend Common Council has passed an ordinance eliminating all minimum off-street parking requirements citywide, making it the largest city in the Midwest to do so.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

The Lincolnway West-Charles Martin Drive project in South Bend removed more than one-half acre of pavement without meaningfully reducing traffic capacity. While improving pedestrian safety, the work also permanently reduced the amount of asphalt to patch, pave, and plow.

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Michael Divita

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8 months

Coming in 2024: a shared-use path along South Bend's Angela Blvd. next to Notre Dame's Burke Golf Course. The trail completes the pedestrian network around ND's perimeter & provides direct bike/ped connection to the Coal Line, East Bank, Riverside, & 933 Trails just to the west.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

The first floor is in place for South Bend's first urban fourplex built in decades.

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Michael Divita

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3 years

Spring sunset at School Field, South Bend. #SouthBend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

3 years

South Bend is Indiana's top growth city, per U-Haul data analysis

INDIANA is the No. 6 U-Haul Growth State of 2021

Indiana is the No. 6 growth state in America, according to 2021 transactional data compiled for the annual U-Haul® Growth Index.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Landscaping and wayfinding signs being installed as finishing touches begin on South Bend's Coal Line Trail.

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Accessory dwelling unit (garage apartment) nearing completion in South Bend This housing type is allowed by-right; the only approval needed to construct it is a building permit.

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Michael Divita

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11 months

Pop-up bumpouts (curb extensions) are back along Lafayette Boulevard in South Bend to provide a trial of pedestrian safety improvements.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

1 year

South Bend Fusion Fest View from the top of the Ferris Wheel

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Michael Divita

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2 months

✅️ Road diet ✅️ Reduced speed limit ✅️ Bump outs (curb extensions) ✅️ Median refuge ✅️ Raised crossing ✅️ Bike/ped crossing sign with flashing lights ✅️ Trees to provide visual narrowing

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Michael Divita

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1 year

The South Shore currently runs 5 trains a day from South Bend to Chicago. The Double Track project happening now will allow more service though short of the past. In 1933, 18 trains a day ran from South Bend to Chicago, leaving at about the top of each hour from 6am to 11pm.

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Michael Divita

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2 months

This stacked duplex on Rex Street, built using one of South Bend’s pre-approved housing plans, recently won Best of Show (Diamond Division) at the Home Builders Association of St. Joseph Valley's 2024 Spring Showcase.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

New windows and doors almost done on the former Ward Baking Co. building on Portage Avenue in South Bend. It's being transformed into Portage Place, a spot for retail, offices, studios, maker space and other uses.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

3 years

Celebrating one year without off-street parking mandates in South Bend. This fantastic policy change has made the City stronger.

Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

4 years

BREAKING: Tonight, the South Bend Common Council has passed an ordinance eliminating all minimum off-street parking requirements citywide, making it the largest city in the Midwest to do so.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Sunny Saturday in South Bend

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Michael Divita

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1 year

Wider sidewalks. Protected bike lanes. Raised intersections. Enhanced trail crossing. Calmed traffic speeds. Decorative lighting. All coming this year to LaSalle Avenue, the busiest eastern entry to downtown South Bend.

'Not only cars': South Bend to revamp LaSalle Avenue with slower speeds, bicycle lanes

A $5.6 million project to calm traffic, add bike lanes on LaSalle Avenue is an effort by city planners to make places people want to linger

www.southbendtribune.com

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

3 years

Breaking: South Bend's population surges to 103,453, per 2020 Census results just released. 2010 population was 101,168.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

Construction on South Bend's Coal Line Trail has reached Portage Avenue. You will have your choice of going up to or under it.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

9 months

Even on a dreary early December day, this soon-to-be-completed urban fourplex, South Bend's first in decades, provides a bright spot.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

No downtown downturn in South Bend. About $400 million in recently announced major projects include a major hospital expansion and 425 housing units to be built in the next few years.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

With today's ratification by the South Bend Plan Commission, the new Near West Side Neighborhood Plan has been officially adopted. The plan proposes new park space, infill housing, zoning changes to support greater housing diversity, traffic calming, and brownfield remediation.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 months

With the elimination of an unneeded travel lane, the pedestrian crossing distance of Angela Boulevard between the University of Notre Dame and Eddy Street Commons in South Bend has been significantly reduced to improve safety (before, during, after pics)

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

8 months

A fully off-street bike route from downtown South Bend to its northeast suburbs is rapidly developing. As early as late 2024, you will be able to ride 4.0 miles from LaSalle Avenue at the St. Joseph River to SR 23 & Douglas Road, all on protected bike lanes or shared-use paths.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

@cmorr0w Construction cost for this model was estimated at about $225,000. The builder for this particular home valued it at $244,830.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

3 years

An evening in downtown South Bend.

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Michael Divita

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8 months

Masonry work continues as this 12-unit apartment building at Main & South Streets in downtown South Bend gets rehabilitated

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Michael Divita

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6 months

New infill housing construction along South Bend's Dubail Street, part of a cluster of more than 15 new homes underway or recently completed near the Southeast Neighborhood Center

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Beauty hides beneath the surface of this building on S. Lafayette Boulevard in South Bend.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

1 year

Work is progressing quickly on South Bend's Campeau Street. Project will enhance bicyclist/pedestrian comfort and safety with narrower travel lanes, corner bumpouts, wider median crossing refuges, and new shared use paths.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

3 months

Street art as traffic calming W. Washington Street, South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

1 year

Time for some before & after pictures of South Bend's Riverside-California intersection. Final elements, including new street trees, are still to come, but the project eliminated the wide and confusing pavement, calmed traffic, and made walking safer and more pleasant.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

Nice infill new construction duplex Sherman Avenue, South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

1 year

Zoning reform helped enable infill housing on these three lots, each 33-36' wide, on Frances Street in South Bend. Previously, the zoning ordinance required a minimum 40' lot width. Now, it's 30' for this district and as little as 15' for others.

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Michael Divita

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2 years

This home, being built by the @SouthBendCSC Construction Program, will be the tenth infill house helping to revive the area around Dayton and Carroll Streets in South Bend.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

1 year

@mustyoshi The catalog includes small multiunit buildings as well.

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@MichaelPDivita

1 year

New construction affordable (income restricted) home on St. Louis Boulevard in South Bend's Northeast Neighborhood

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Michael Divita

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7 months

Under design: this section of Notre Dame Avenue, from South Bend Avenue to Angela Boulevard (at the University of Notre Dame main gate), will see its bike lanes upgraded to high-quality protected ones (2-way, sidewalk-level cycletrack) as part of a 2024 streetscape project.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

4 months

Complete set of seasons of the St. Joseph River at Leeper Park. (Too bad the tree branch that nicely framed the view broke.)

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@MichaelPDivita

4 months

St. Joseph River Leeper Park, South Bend (Spring Edition)

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Michael Divita

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7 months

On the northern edge of downtown South Bend, the stage is being set for the best type of redevelopment: turning surface parking lots into housing (and more).

South Bend Tribune

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7 months

In place of two blocks of parking lots, South Bend envisions a mixed-use development with hundreds of new apartments, a hotel and about 900 parking spaces.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

Several multifamily residential projects on South Bend's northeast side are now nearing completion

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Temporary bumpouts (curb extensions) placed at Lafayette and Jefferson Boulevards in South Bend

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Michael Divita

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1 year

Base for the second phase of South Bend's Coal Line Trail is being formed. That climb near Holy Cross College is going to be a leg-burner.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

If display of the city flag is any indication, South Bend is full of civic pride.

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Michael Divita

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10 months

New infill home construction Harrison Avenue, South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

3 years

Several buildings along South Bend's Miami Street have seen their c. 1970 false fronts removed to reveal their original detailing. This building, like many in the City, features a simple, yet elegant, brick design. 2006 ➡️ 2022

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

1 year

South Bend's next traffic calming/pedestrian safety improvement project: Twyckenham Drive-Longfellow Avenue-South Street intersection. Hint: if your intersection is a forest of stop signs, there's probably a better way.

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Michael Divita

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Concrete is now being installed on the Notre Dame Avenue segment of the trail linking downtown South Bend to the university. Included is the raised crossing that will carry the sidewalk and protected bike lanes over Napoleon Street.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

Murals of Mishawaka Avenue South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

10 months

Great features coming! Recent progress on South Bend's LaSalle Avenue streetscape project: raised intersection at Niles Avenue, sidewalk paver installation, and beginnings of two-way, street-level protected bike lanes east of St. Louis Boulevard.

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Michael Divita

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New home construction Dubail Avenue, South Bend These are some of the eight houses recently built, under construction, or permitted along this street, all helping to infill vacant lots in one of the city's hardest-hit neighborhoods for population loss

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Michael Divita

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2 years

Riding between the double row of trees on the Lincolnway West protected bike lane in South Bend

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Michael Divita

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3 years

Coal Line Trail emerging on South Bend's northwest side.

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Michael Divita

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1 year

New house construction in South Bend's West North Shore Local Historic District, the first in the district since its 1978 creation

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

3 months

South Bend's downtown core has about 800 housing units for a population of around 1,000 people, but it has 8,500 parking spaces. The city's Downtown Plan will seek to promote a better balance.

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

Original brick facade uncovered Franky's Tacos building Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend

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Michael Divita

@MichaelPDivita

2 years

South Bend is among the ten largest American cities to have fully eliminated off-street parking minimum requirements.

Parking Reform Network

@Parking_Reform

2 years

We know of at least 24 cities in North America which have repealed all of their costly car parking mandates.* It's a growing list with cities of all sizes. * Cities may still have parking requirements for a few specific uses or in special cases.

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@tkinskey @TheAllenCompany No report/study used. Just employed urban best practices, local knowledge, and common sense.

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