This will be an entertainment-driven area and a fast-growing community. At the end of the day there will be 25,000 residents and 5,000 students, all with differing beliefs.

Today's approval is a critical component in the ongoing permitting process. With it, we will now move quickly forward.

We are going to be employing thousands of people in construction, in jobs in every industry. I think it really has the opportunity to change the face of Immokalee in a pretty rapid period of time.

We've had about 3,500 people sign up for more information since the groundbreaking. The response is overwhelmingly positive. Astonishingly so. We had a couple of calls from people saying they don't agree with this.

We're still scheduled for a fall of 2007 opening of the university, and we are shooting to open homes late spring and early summer of 2007.

We're not going to discriminate against anyone, whether it be religion, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.