“It's really unusual for a developer to propose a contract, a developer to name the price of the project and for the city to buy it at that price without having anyone else have a crack at it.”
“I think there's so much division on this issue fundamentally because the deal went through and minds were made up before there was a public conversation.”
“If we're able to have community energy and participation in the process, it has a lot of political power because it represents people with different points of view about downtown, coming together.”
