The Southeast neighborhood

1971 — present

The southeast side organized itself into the city's plans: the neighborhood — the ground south of Sample Street and east of Fellows, built over the Denniston and Fellows plat's eastern reach and the industrial flats beyond — enters the city's record in the Model Cities era: the council minutes of August 1971 document the Southeast Neighborhood Development Program, a joint venture of the Model Cities program with $1 million of federal money in its first year and thirty-six homes in the Southeast section. Its industrial frame was set by the Sample-Ewing Development Area, drawn in the Redevelopment Commission's record of 4 January 1995 in three sections, the northern — to the alley between Pennsylvania and Broadway — designated for clearance and redevelopment.

The neighborhood's present organization is the strongest in the city: SOAR, Southeast Organized Area Residents, and the 466Works Community Development Corporation built the Southeast Neighborhood Master Plan with the city — adopted by the Area Plan Commission on 18 December 2018 and approved by the Common Council in January 2019 (Bill 19-03) — and the Southeast Neighborhood Center, a United Way facility at Fellows and Dubail serving census tracts 29 and 30, opened its doors in the plan's wake, its campaign counting the neighborhood at some 2,684 people. Monroe Park, at the neighborhood's north edge — the ground below Monroe Street — keeps its own association in the city's roster.

Sources:

1. City of South Bend — Common Council minutes (August 1971); Redevelopment Commission minutes, 4 January 1995; Southeast Neighborhood Master Plan (adopted 2018–2019, Bill 19-03)
2. United Way of St. Joseph County — Southeast Neighborhood Center campaign documents