It’s 6:00PM on Saturday, November 16th and a crowd in search of burgers and beer has gathered inside a former dry-cleaning facility on the South East edge of downtown South Bend. It’s Permit Pending № 2.
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Jacob and Dustin interview Brad and Regina Emberton, the duo behind The Armory’s restoration, about their path to purchasing the condemned building, its curious history as a shooting range, recreation facility, and wedding venue, and the future of the surrounding district.
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Ninety years ago today, South Bend's dream of elevated train tracks was completed. As the city faced unforeseen challenges of a rapidly industrializing world, South Bend’s ambition and courage to embrace change were on full display. This is the story.
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Jacob and Dustin enjoy a wide-ranging conversation with Aaron Perri about his history with South Bend, his thoughts on what a good park can do for a neighborhood, how he thinks about ending creative projects, the founding of Howard Park as an innovative pleasure ground, and what Howard Park’s multi-million dollar transformation will mean to the city at-large.
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Jacob and Dustin interview Frank Perri and Patrick Whittling, partners in The J.C. Lauber Building, about continuing the building’s century-long legacy as a cornerstone of South Bend’s East Bank neighborhood.
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On Sunday, August 25th some hundreds gathered in the backyard of an East side home for (Y)ART?, a feast of South Bend’s artistic talent conceived and organized by Lauren Steinhofer.
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Jacob and Dustin interview Sam Centellas and Scott Ford, two people who played pivotal roles in the Western Avenue corridor’s economic resurgence and transformation from a street that you would drive through, to a neighborhood that you drive to.
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On the first weekend of May, thirteen friends traveled to Culver, Indiana to spend three days in the Clemens Vonnegut Jr. House, a 130-year-old summer cottage that has become emblematic of a community’s fight for its soul.
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Jacob and Dustin interview three partners in The Hibberd about their decision to risk time and money on a restoration project, The Hibberd’s contribution to South Bend’s resurgent narrative, and their vision of a vibrant, walkable downtown.
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Jacob and Dustin explore the history of South Bend’s oldest standing commercial building with Mark McDonnell, the building’s owner and founder of both LaSalle Grill and LaSalle Kitchen and Tavern.
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