It's the business center of town.

We're hoping to have the engineering plans done by the summer.

We've certainly received interest in it but the parties have never been able to hammer out a deal with the owners.

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

But even with the 19.4 percent reduction, we know we are not the lowest bidder for the Northwest business. In the bid we put in for Northwest, we were in the middle of the pack.

Many of these people are sophisticated business people for whom markets have reversed... They don't need to know how to balance a checkbook.