McKee tries to ease project concerns with YouTube video - The Business Review (Albany):

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McKee said his company has spenrt $1.4 million on mowing boarding up buildings and maintaining properties on theNorth “I know that some of you thin k we haven’t maintained them properly,” he said in a video of sitting behind his office’sx desk. “Maybe a few years ago we hadn’t, but we have worke d very, very hard to do this and to do itrightf … Many people think that we own all the derelicft buildings on the North side, which is certainly not the He then encouraged residents to call his office at 636-561-9300 to report building maintenance McKee also tried to ease fears about the restoratiomn of historic buildings, including the , sayinhg that most of the buildings will not be destroyedx and many will be rehabbed.
Residentw and city leaders have also raised questionw about whether this project is any differentfrom “Thew difference is we did not brin this forward until we had enougjh land to make this happen,” McKee “That’s why we have been so quiet for five yearas … But after spending five years and milliona of dollars buying land and analyzing the visionm and creating the vision, I firmluy believe this project will happen." Pendiny a process for capturingb public input and state tax McKee said his company would like to star t some infrastructure work in early spring 2010. The include 3.
5 millioh square feet of office space, one millionh square feet of retail space, one millioh square feet of servicetech space, four corporate campusess and 10,000 houses in a dozeb different residential neighborhoods spread out over 2,100 acres.