South Bend’s Herstoric Development Featured Article

Check out this article featuring one of Neighborhood Evolution’s very own participants: Charity Stowe and Rachel Mospan. We had the pleasure of walking through their latest project, The Monarch Building, located in South Bend, Indiana, this past May.

Neighborhood Evolution and Herstoric Development Group Photo May 2023

The Monarch Building

Stowe specializes in construction management and restoring floors back to their former glory. Mospan designs interiors and is a Certified GREEN Accredited Professional. This dynamic duo joined forces to add to the incremental development of South Bend, a Rust Belt City located 96 miles East of Chicago. Their latest project is a brick building built in 1921, formerly known as The Monarch Printing Company. This building has one incredible feature, that we got to see with our own eyes. A GIANT hole in the first floor.

Massive hole in the first floor of The Monarch

They have plans to renovate the first floor, which has space for a commercial business, within the next year. The top floors will be transformed into 6 residential apartments aimed to provide affordable housing to this up and coming neighborhood. This is quite the project, lots of sweat equity and thoughtful preservation ahead for the ladies of “Herstoric Development”. The Neighborhood Evolution Team is excited to see this project continue to come to life. 

The Monarch Exterior Rendering

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Read the rest of the article HERE to learn more about Charity, Rachel, and Herstoric Development in South Bend.