Buttigieg cites $63 million in private investment in downtown

SOUTH BEND — As candidate for the Democratic National Committee the first two months of 2017, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said he came to believe the solutions to the problems facing people, cities and governments will come from the local level, not from national or state sources.

In his State of the City address Tuesday night at Riley High School, the mayor said he was glad to be in the middle of the effort to solve those problems.

For the second consecutive year, the city’s Smart Streets project was highlighted by the mayor.

He acknowledged that the project caused a good deal of disruption over the past year. But he said the “ripping off the Band-Aid” approach ultimately was better than a multi-year project for downtown.

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