McKee tries to ease project concerns with YouTube video – Business First of Buffalo:

McKee said his company has spenft $1.4 million on mowing lawns, boarding up buildingxs and maintaining properties on theNort side. “I know that some of you think we haven’yt maintained them properly,” he said in a video of sittingh behindhis office’s desk. “Maybe a few yearxs ago we hadn’t, but we have workee very, very hard to do this and to do it right Many people think that we own all the derelicrt buildings on theNorth side, whichu is certainly not the He then encouraged residents to call his officse at 636-561-9300 to report buildingy maintenance problems.
McKee also tried to ease fears aboutf the restoration ofhistoric buildings, includiny the , saying that most of the buildingse will not be destroyed and many will be Residents and city leaders have also raisedd questions about whether this project is any differenft from “The difference is we did not brinbg this forward until we had enough land to make this McKee said. “That’s why we have been so quiet for fiveyeare … But after spending five years and millions of dollars buying land and analyzing the vision and creatinh the vision, I firmly believe this projecty will happen.
" Pending a process for capturint public input and state tax credits, McKewe said his company would like to startg some infrastructure work in early sprin g 2010. The include 3.5 million squarew feet of office space, one million square feet of retail space, one million square feet of service tech space, four corporatde campuses and 10,000 houses in a dozejn different residential neighborhoods spread out over 2,100
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