The varying materials come together through the common bond of coming from the earth. The structure, while contemporary in form, appears to have one site for years.

To have somebody of his caliber in this town can only help the rest of us.

It's become much more a part of the community now. The positive comments from outsiders have helped the community embrace it even more.

We have too many buildings in this town and not enough architecture. There's a real tendency in this community to want everything to look the same. The Strip is allowed to do anything, but once you get off the Strip, there's very little originality.

He was down to earth. In 1997 I first started making contact with him. He didn't know me from Adam.... Here was a man with so much stature and such an entourage. I started to call him Mr. Parks. He told me to call him Gordon.

Holtzman clearly showed in the Referendum C campaign he was willing to go scorched earth. Bitter fights leave scars.