If we don't get 100 percent of the land donated for the road by August we'll be in trouble. We have from 55 percent to 70 percent donated.

The state will get the land eventually, but even condemnation would take two years if it started now. People want the mall. They shouldn't have to wait.

This is what we've been looking for. This is a retail destination for the one and a half million people who will be living on both sides of the river.

The trouble we've seen in the last six to 12 months is land prices have just gone through the roof.

If we have trouble with cell phones and land-line telephones, they serve as our communications element, ... We lost cells and land lines in the 2001 tornado, so we used them as our primary form of communications, with radios in different vehicles.

Improving a two and three land road to a better three lane road doesn't get you that big capacity improvement. The conclusion is we need a five lane facility and that's what we're going to build.