I applaud you for taking the initiative of starting the acquisition process, and I encourage you to finish it.

It's almost impossible to run a business like that with everything on one person's shoulders.

With the caliber of talent we've attracted to this project, we are confident our hotel is poised to become one of LA's most desirable addresses.

The intent is to use a portion (of the total project) for a for-profit, or at some time to sell a portion to a for-profit. We don't need the entire site for the (community resources) project.

Even when he was beginning to open this thing, he would ask for advice and he was open to ideas. He knows he doesn't know everything there is to know. Neither one of us do.