They have stealthily come into the market and monopolized the better buildings downtown under their ownership. Consider there are only nine or 10 Class A buildings downtown. They own six of them.

The city's suburban heritage buildings are as important as those garden villas in the downtown.

We have a lot of buildings in our downtown that could be on the National Historic Register if we wanted them to be.

There is a public good in having historic and beautiful buildings downtown. It is good to have skyscrapers, but you also need some touchstones to the past to make it interesting and distinctive.

We would like to have a farmers market and put it in the downtown area and get the theater open which is scheduled to open in the fall. You'll have the center of arts and eats and entertainment downtown.

We had occupied those buildings for 31 years, ... Nothing changed as result of the sale except ownership.