The Northeast: Sorinsville's heirs

1866 — present

The ground annexed as the Fourth Ward in 1866 — Lowell's north end, Sorinsville and the farmland between the city and the college — is the city's Northeast neighborhood today: its organized life is the oldest continuous neighborhood machinery in South Bend. The Northeast Neighborhood Council, founded in 1966 and seated in the Charles Martin Youth Center at 802 North Notre Dame Avenue, is the city's oldest neighborhood association; the Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization Organization, chartered in 2000 after the renewal of a 1993 neighborhood plan, works the same ground as the city's official community development corporation. The neighborhood's commercial heart is the Eddy Street corridor at Five Points, the crossroads of the Sorinsville plat, where the Eddy Street Commons development of shops, offices and townhouses opened in 2009 on the ground between the city and the university. Its named sub-areas carry their own entries in this section — Harter Heights, platted in 1916 inside the neighborhood's bounds; Sunnymede, adjoining to the southeast — and the association drew its own boundaries for the present work: Angela Boulevard to the north, the river to the west, Twyckenham Drive to the east, and to the south a line at Wayne Street and South Bend Avenue. A Northeast neighborhood plan stands among the plans the city's framework lists as in preparation in the 2020s.

Sources:

1. Communities, this record (the Council of 1966, the NNRO of 2000, the Eddy Street Commons of 2009, the association's own bounds) — banked fragment
2. City of South Bend, Department of Community Investment budget presentation (2026) — southbendin.gov