I just think it will be a great thing for people to come out. It's a good community event and a good way for people to get together.

I know that it's a piece of property important to the county. I would like to see how important. I would like to see if the city can acquire it without having to pay the price.

We have come to a place where the constituents of the County Council and the City Commission should be proud. We will be protecting everyone's interest and we do it together. Hopefully this will be second of many, many meetings.

There is probably no one venue in the community, besides the Rock Cats, that draws the people that the museum does to the city of New Britain. Too often we have a lot of negatives tied to our community, and this is a huge positive.

These people ultimately want to go back to their own community. They don't want to live in Florida or Texas.

There are many people in our community without huge incomes, and this type of store is very important, socially and economically to them. People will vote with their feet.