Get your business cards ready! What we're trying to do is get to know as many people as we possibly can. |
I thought we really battled and never gave up. If we didn't dig ourselves a hole at the beginning it may have been a whole different ballgame. |
It's almost like the perfect storm of circumstances. Those circumstances have created a . . . war in which developers and a few communities come out on top. And the other communities struggle. |
Looks like people are still on the road. We've been on the road for about four hours and it's pretty hectic, and looks like business as usual. |
The problem is, it's very hard to have all three. Only the cities that win these battles for development accomplish this. And when you have as many cities as St. Louis County does, it's just not realistic that everyone's going to be a winner. |
They hired me to build a program. We have a lot of young kids and we progressed this year. |
We put ourselves in the mode of having to fight back. We built ourselves a hole. |