The proposal doesn't meet the requirements of the Northland Plan, so we had to reject it in its current form.

I'm surprised and I'm not surprised because the criticisms were very minor and easily correctable.

Bad tenants will rent bad-looking apartments, but good tenants want decent apartments.

We fully support the apartment plan. It seems like a win-win situation.

Lab buildings are fun because scientists are so passionate. Researchers are very concerned and knowledgeable about their space and have a lot of ideas of how it should work, because they realize it can make a big difference in how productive they are.

One of the things that we see constantly with university folks is that they have grants, they get funding to do research, a research program lasts maybe two to five years and then they need to go and use that space for something else.