When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have been worth it.

what we believe will continue to be a tough economic environment.

The opportunities are great because of the resources you already have are really strong. Particularly impressive are the cultural resources already available.

This is a great opportunity for Columbia to show itself off.

We're not connecting the dots. That's unfortunate, and I don't think there is any money left to do it.

Those are the kinds of things that create the base of recreating a downtown because they bring people here.