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Joseph Molnar

@JosephRMolnar

Dad. Husband. Runner. Catholic. 4th generation in South Bend, IN. Read my More People series here: https://nitter.gq/t.co/aO8h9fOgVA

 South Bend, IN
Joined October 2017
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A weekly thread of all Catholic Churches in South Bend: First up, St. Patrick's. Parish founded by Irish immigrants in 1858. The current church was consecrated in 1887. St. Patt's was the first of many Catholic parishes on the West Side and has the tallest steeple in the city!
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Matt does amazing work, always a pleasure to sit down with him on his podcast!
Round the Bend 574 (@roundthebend574) profile pictureRound the Bend 574@roundthebend574Nov 10
Thank you Deputy Director of Community Investment for the City of South Bend, Joe Molnar, for stopping by the studio and recording an episode of Round the Bend Now and Then!! Learn all about the state of our city’s amazing projects! Be on the lookout in a few weeks!
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South Bend at the conjunction of all three seems apt
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) profile pictureBrilliant Maps
@BrilliantMapsOct 26
Home Depot vs Lowe’s vs Menards brilliantmaps.com/home-depot…
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Same spot, four years difference!
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Michael Divita@MichaelPDivitaAug 25
Neighborhood resurrection: a string of new infill homes are under construction on formerly vacant lots on Blaine Avenue on South Bend's west side
Several new houses, each with a porch, under construction

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South Bend Tribune@SBTribuneAug 19
South Bend prepares to start on Western Avenue Transformation District southbendtribune.com/story/n…
South Bend prepares to start on Western Avenue Transformation District

South Bend prepares to start on Western Avenue Transformation District

The city will soon start infrastructure work on the Western Avenue Transformation District, the replacement for Rabbi Shulman and Monroe Circle.

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Eddie@chacarandaAug 18
South Bend keeps winning This one is huge
Michael Divita (@MichaelPDivita) profile pictureMichael Divita@MichaelPDivitaAug 18
New: South Bend has secured a $3.8 million Federal grant for planning and preliminary engineering to move the city's Amtrak stop to Union Station
South Bend Union Station at sunset

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Why the Midwest is currently my favorite part of the US 1) It still manufactures a lot, and that gives people good meaningful jobs that ground them to reality. The American Dream is still alive here. 2) People are not performative, with a genuineness divorced from promotion. What is the stereotype to play to? Naive, boring, sincerity with a touch of drunk? 3) and like all of the US, every city here has bunch of brew-pubs and great restaurants. The idea that you can only get lattes, home-crafted IPAs, etc, on the coasts is crazy. Everywhere in the country now has great options, especially here. 4) Oh, Great Lakes beaches are vastly under-rated 5) Culver's In praise of the Midwest, my latest piece walkingtheworld.substack.com…
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If metro areas (not just city limits) are losing 30%+ of their under 5 population, you can expect the amount of school closures to climb climb climb over the next decade. Then colleges in the decade after that.
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Bobby Fijan (@bobbyfijan) profile pictureBobby Fijan
@bobbyfijanJul 27
Been saying this for a while The dropoff is *especially* pronounced in young kids (under 5)
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Its been close but God willing South Bend never joins this list.
Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) profile pictureSimon Kuestenmacher
@simongerman600Jul 24
I love this map! It shows all the US cities that used to have more than 100,000 residents but now don't anymore. Cool US history and geography trivia. Source: buff.ly/3yM5JOa
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Walk with me through South Bend’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, where vacant lots are becoming new homes. In just 2 minutes, we’ll explore how this neighborhood got here and why its future is looking brighter! Kudos to everyone involved! – at South Bend, IN
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Eddie@chacarandaJul 15
South Bend keeps winning
Michael Divita (@MichaelPDivita) profile pictureMichael Divita@MichaelPDivitaJul 15
Three new apartment buildings in downtown South Bend have started heading vertical
Monreaux

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Stadium Flats south

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Stadium Flats north

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Rust Belt/Midwest holding the line
Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MaryBowdenMD) profile pictureMary Talley Bowden MD
@MaryBowdenMDJul 11
Over the past 34 years, healthcare has replaced manufacturing as the top employer in the vast majority of states.
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Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexMay 29
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexMay 25
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) profile pictureJohn Carter
@martianwyrdlordMay 19
Wow a $230,000 home, you say? Please tell us where those even exist.
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Sunrise over the St. Joe River.
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“With the need becoming stronger for affordable housing across the city, especially obtainable housing for homeownership, land control is the first barrier to development and new housing,” Molnar said.
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South Bend Tribune (@SBTribune) profile pictureSouth Bend Tribune@SBTribuneApr 29
Numerous blighted properties leads South Bend to pursue land bank southbendtribune.com/story/n…
Numerous blighted properties leads South Bend to pursue land bank

Numerous blighted properties leads South Bend to pursue land bank

High numbers of vacant or blighted properties in South Bend gained attention of city staff, who are now working to create a redevelopment land bank.

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Michael Divita@MichaelPDivitaApr 16
Status update: quite the change.
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Michael Divita (@MichaelPDivita) profile pictureMichael Divita@MichaelPDivita22 Aug 2025
Building's false front being removed, revealing historic stone facade Michigan Street, South Bend
Panels being removed from Center City Place, revealing stone facade

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Very close to framing a picture of Pope Leo XIV and hanging it in my living room like an old Italian grandma.
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Michael Divita@MichaelPDivitaJan 30
South Bend housing boom: According to South Bend-St. Joseph County Building Department data, the City issued 187 new house permits in 2025; this is the highest total ever recorded in the 34-year history of the consolidated department.
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