I think this is going to be an extremely enjoyable event and something totally different for our community.

All military events are always free, but there are limited seats. We encourage people to get those picked up as soon as they possibly can.

I couldn't be more excited about this. We worked for two years to have one of the Washington, D.C., bands come. It's very difficult to do — you kind of have to book them two to three years in advance.

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.

We get pushed very hard by our development community in this area but we think that we're just scratching the surface with what can be built. The overall business benefit is around linking projects more closely together and allowing people to move around information a lot more intelligently.

Obviously, the Council had their concerns, and obviously, we didn't just want to invalidate the concerns of the community. So we took that information to heart, and I think we've got a great kind of middle ground now.