I just want to open doors for the Latin community and for people to understand that there are many opportunities for them if they can communicate. Not just in real estate. (Hispanics) are a great market for restaurants, for stores, even for the YMCA.

It is not that people here think (Hispanics) are not a good market, or think they don't have enough economic power to acquire a house. Hispanic people are the ones that don't realize they have rights and they have the power to do it. They just don't know the rights they have because some of them are illegal immigrants. They don't know they can (take out) loans even though they don't have a credit history of even though they are not legal.

I tell them they are amazing people with great experiences and a great culture that will be appreciated in this country.

It's not a hard sell. People in this community already know about opera and love it. This is a very sophisticated town. The city is ready for something like this.

Finding out what a community will enjoy, will support and get behind takes expertise. These people will be able to provide a better, more organized plan than we could've come up with.

We were visited by whites, who always found coming into the black community to be interesting. Some even found it exotic. They knew that some of our restaurants were superior to their own. One of the interesting things is that whites discriminated against blacks. Blacks never discriminated against whites, and so they were always welcome.