Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share.

By identifying those contaminants, we take out those question marks. Sometimes people put off coming downtown and assembling land because of the concern over contaminants. We are going to make it easier to attract developers downtown.

That was pure profit for them.

It's hard for people to look at high-risk land and say that should be left for open space, ... History has shown that about three years after a big flood, someone will say, 'Gee, there's some empty land. We ought to develop it.'

That's something I've found in any business that never works. You can't save your way to a profit.

We have as much land there as at the central campus, ... You can't predict what the long run might hold, but I do believe that this is a tremendous asset.