A focus on small-town issues like fixing the sewer system and filling potholes, along with new businesses in a long-closed plant helped revitalize South Bend
The mayor, set to make a presidential announcement Sunday, focused on revitalizing a long-dormant Studebaker plant and fixing the city’s sewer systemSOUTH BEND, Ind.—For decades, the biggest symbol of this Midwestern city’s decline was the vacant Studebaker plant at one end of the city with its broken windows.
Kevin Smith, a business owner in South Bend who bought the property to renovate it, said the empty relic was holding the city back. “It looms over the town,” he said. “Everyone had the feeling that we could no longer compete.”
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