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.

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

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.'

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.

When we talk about the entire area being blighted we don't mean every parcel within that area. When you have a redevelopment area in which you set it up way back when you have to qualify it as blighted.

We are actively seeking developers to come down here. Every obstacle, every impediment, every challenge we can eliminate for that developer the more likely he'll come down to take a look at what we consider strong development opportunities downtown.