The mayor and Democratic presidential candidate has presided over improvements in Indiana’s fourth-largest city, but progress has been uneven.
Residents of South Bend, Ind., gather downtown to participate in Easter activities and play Pokémon Go on April 13. By Amy B Wang Amy B Wang General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 22 at 6:00 AM SOUTH BEND, Ind. — On a recent weekday in South Bend — before its mayor, Pete Buttigieg, announced he was seeking an audacious promotion — a handful of more mundane occurrences unfolded around the city.
Co-owners Kelli Coppola and Peg Dalton speak to a table at their restaurant in downtown South Bend. In the past few weeks, Buttigieg has broken through a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates, rising from an unknown whose name was butchered on cable television — if it was mentioned at all — to someone who reported more than $7 million in first-quarter fundraising and is attracting hundreds to his campaign rallies.
A South Bend reporter attends the announcement. However, he has said his leadership of the city — and its subsequent turnaround — can offer valuable lessons for other parts of the country. Buttigieg, then 29, entered the race for mayor after moving back to South Bend, his hometown, while he was working as a consultant for McKinsey. He used his youth as a selling point, promising he could turn South Bend around by tackling decaying neighborhoods, luring new companies to the city and driving policy through data and technology. He won the three-person race with a simple majority of the vote.College students sit outside a house after leaving a party.
On a recent afternoon, South Bend council member Regina Williams-Preston pointed out ubiquitous gaps on a stretch of Florence Avenue in the predominantly black Kennedy Park neighborhood. On one lot, a few concrete steps led only to an expanse of grass, as if the house itself had been raptured. It was one of the hundreds of homes that had been demolished in Buttigieg’s initial push.
“I thought, surely there’s programs and things available to help. And what I found was, there really wasn’t,” Williams-Preston said. “Anytime you’re not enforcing on somebody for any reason, you’re also running the risk of doing something unfair, right?” Buttigieg said. “Even when you try to do it in the name of mercy, which is what motivated us to try to work things out . . . you’re then running the risk that you could be accused of arbitrary or selective enforcement. When at the end of the day, we just want to make sure these properties are being taken care of.
Buttigieg has refused to publicize the recordings — or even listen to them — saying it would be illegal under the federal Wiretap Act. Arguably Buttigieg’s biggest win came after a pair of entrepreneurs bought the old Studebaker factory in 2015, converting the enormous brick building into a glass-faced technology hub. It was there that Buttigieg formally launched his campaign for president.
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