Steve Lord: Hi, I'm Steve Lord with the Beacon-News tribune publications, and I'm with Jimi Allen today. And we are talking about the old Carson's building on North Lake Street, and it is now vacant and has been vacant for five years. The city went out and did some marketing, trying to find users for it and came up with Storage of America. They now have a full plan that's before the council, this Tuesday, it's gone through all the process. Jimi Allen: As a resident, as a constituent, our representatives didn't present this project to us. It was, again, on the marketing side, we were mailed postcards. And nowadays, you get so much. Mail is not used the same way. It's definitely not a marketing tool, unless you're a politician or something of that nature. Everything's digital now. So, the offer we're making to the city is we will give them all the advertising design that they need so that we'll create the advertisements, the digital advertisements, we'll create videos, and then we'll run those programmatically to the target audiences. And I think it would be obviously a game changer if we could start seeing some other opportunities come along with this property. And we wouldn't need years to do this, we could do this in 12 months. Steve Lord: People think it's just always a simple matter of, well, the alderman can sit up there and decide what comes in their town and what doesn't. Jimi Allen: That's right. Steve Lord: They can, but it's not quite that simple when you have private property rights. And believe me, I've seen plenty of developments come into town and they are not desired by people, but they are permitted in a certain zone. Jimi Allen: I understand. I'm in the real world. I think I'm an entrepreneur, I have to deal with these things all the time. And the big question or the thing that's being stated is this is a market reality, and this is the best that we can do. How do market realities work? Well, one market reality is we need to do an actual study on our gateway into the city, which we didn't do. And that's a city responsibility. That's what taxpayers pay for. We looked at just the property taxes of our neighborhood. The rural Highlands, we spend millions of dollars supporting our neighborhood. We have a historic district. We've been maintaining those homes. Historically that means a lot of extra leg work to maintain a property. So, the due diligence that the city would be asking for this project would be what they should have done a year ago. So, I'm not asking them to do something that they shouldn't have done. I'm asking them to do what we need to start doing in the City of Aurora, or we're not going to see the prosperity that we all want here. And now what we're offering is an opportunity to say, let's get some better options out there and do the due diligence, create the plan for the gateway coming into the city. And in all honesty, asking them to partner with people and doing that. Create a P3 agreement where you're inviting the people that are doing the sweat equity, that are building the buildings, bringing the businesses in to be a part of the process and not just reactive. And this was a really reactive project. I mean, it was thrown at us last minute. Steve Lord: So, I keep coming back to, where are we in this process? How realistic is it to expect that on Tuesday, they can come in and say, we do want to delay this? And the one way I can see, is say, well, why don't we hold this for two weeks and hear these people out a little more. They don't necessarily have to right away, say we're holding it for 12 months, and see what the ideas are. The other side of that is, I can also see city staff getting a little head up and saying, we really did work hard on this. And from their standpoint, I'm sure they feel they did. Jimi Allen: It isn't the best we can do. The deal, the decision, the vote hasn't happened. And if we vote this in and this property becomes locked down for decades, I don't think that they're coming back from this. I think this is something that we can't afford to allow to continue. I think we have to. This is the nail in the coffin for our community. And even if it was a subsidized project by the city, it would be better than perhaps some of the other projects that we're doing, that we pour millions of dollars into. If you would stimulate an entrepreneurial culture down here, you're going to get your housing taken care of, you're going to get your restaurants taken care of. You got to see the whole picture here. This is a what I mean, a nail in the coffin approach there is that you're giving up on how people are going to enter into your city with a hopeful attitude of what's actually beyond that area.