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Harrison Square Calendar
- 4th - At the Fort Wayne Redevelopment Commission
meeting, city leaders announced they will be asking the
Grand Wayne Convention Center to contribute $2.5 million in
financing for the proposed hotel over a 10 year period. This
would be paid over a ten-year period between 2010 and 2019 in
payments of $250,000 annually.
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- 5th - Asbestos removal inside
Belmont Beverage begins.
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- 7th - Press conference held at the
Grand Wayne Convention Center to update the Harrison Square
project. New conceptual renderings are released, including a
virtual fly by through the Ballpark.
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- 8th - Memorial Coliseum officials
state they are making plans to demolish the Memorial Stadium if
Harrison Square becomes reality.
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- 12th - City Council members John Shoaff,
Thomas Smith and Don Schmidt along with City Council Attorney
Joseph G. Bonahoom send a letter to Christopher Guerin, President
of the Redevelopment Commission. The letter requests
additional information regarding purchases of properties in the
proposed Harrison Square area. The letter states, "I further
want to reiterate that this request is not meant to nor should it
be taken as adversarial. Rather, it is merely a way for the
interested Council members to gather information on behalf of
their constituents so that they may intelligently answer questions
being raised with regard to the Harrison Square District."
The quote is in bold print in the letter.
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- 13th - Fort Wayne Police report that
Edwin Gerardot Jr. swerved across three lanes of West Jefferson
Boulevard and crashed into the
Central America Restaurant.
The building is heavily damaged, but it will not need to be
demolished immediately. Instead, the city will be able to
seek bids for demolition probably sometime in mid to late-July.
Journal-Gazette Article which includes a photo.
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- The city files an application to rezone the land in the
Harrison Square project area as CM5A. The application will
go before the City Plan Commission in July which will hopefully
allow the City Council to give final approval in August.
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- 19th - The Redevelopment Commission
begins taking bids to demolish the 50 properties making up
Harrison Square. The demolition will take place in 5 phases
and completed by October 1, 2007.
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Bid and Contract Documents |
What's in a demolition?
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- 29th - The Fort Wayne/Allen County Convention & Tourism
Authority which controls the Grand Wayne Center's budget turned
down a request by the City to fund the Proposed Hotel for $250,000
annually for 10 years. Two Board members, Paul Shaffer (his
residence was recently annexed into Fort Wayne) and Ed Rousseau,
abstained because they are county appointees who live in Fort
Wayne proper. Steve Brody, another board member, recused
himself because of a conflict of interest. Brody is a
Harrison Square consultant.
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