Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the cries for help were numerous. This money will go far in reaching the immediate needs of those impacted.

There are more buyers and customers in the medium income bracket than there are in the upper income bracket.

We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just send crews out there and start building hundreds of homes,' There's a lot of interest in securing a hundred to a thousand acres of land.

Some properties doubled in price overnight. People were bidding up prices, not even caring about the price. They just had to have a place to live.

We just feel terrible, ... Hopefully, what we've done will help others see this and contribute, too.

It's a highly visible landmark that will help make Randolph County and the entire Triad region stand out on maps and in people's mind's.