We're not into going into the political part of this. It's for the benefit of everybody to have an arts center for the neighborhood.

It is not a good perception for the city when people come here to dine and then they come back [from dinner] and can't find their car.

If you want it residential, that means you would have to upgrade the stairways, and if you upgrade the stairways, you're going to kill the historic look of it.

It's very hard to pin a date on it, but we'd like to finish by the end of the year.

We realize we're pretty much at the mercy of business. Our goals are to keep the area vibrant and keep it clean.

If you look at the demographics, we've got as good a population as any part of town.