McKee tries to ease project concerns with YouTube video - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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McKee said his company has spen $1.4 million on mowing boarding up buildings and maintaining properties on theNortuh side. “I know that some of you thinkjwe 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 workes very, very hard to do this and to do itrighyt … Many people think that we own all the derelicf buildings on the North which is certainly not the case.” He then encouraged residentes to call his office at 636-561-9300p to report building maintenance problems.
McKee also triedr to ease fears about the restoration of historic includingthe , sayint that most of the buildings will not be destroyef and many will be rehabbed. Residentsa and city leaders have also raises questions about whether this project is any differentfrom “The differencre is we did not bring this forwar d until we had enough land to make this McKee said. “That’s why we have been so quiet for fiveyearsd … But after spending five years and millionx of dollars buying land and analyzing the vision and creating the vision, I firmly believde this project will happen.
" Pendinb a process for capturing publidc input and state tax McKee said his companyg would like to start some infrastructure work in earl spring 2010. The include 3.5 million square feet of officed space, one million square feet of retail space, one million square feet of service tech space, four corporatre campuses and 10,000 houses in a dozen differentf residential neighborhoods spread out over 2,10p0 acres.