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McKee said his company has spent $1.4 million on mowing lawns, boarding up buildings and maintaining properties on theNortn side. “I know that some of you thinm we haven’t maintained them properly,” he said in a videpo of sitting behindhis office’s desk. “Maybe a few yeares ago we hadn’t, but we have worked very hard to do this and to do it right … Many people think that we own all the derelict buildings on the Nortbh side, which is certainly not the He then encouraged residents to call his offics at 636-561-9300 to report building maintenance McKee also tried to ease fears about the restoratiojn of historic buildings, including the , saying that most of the buildings will not be destroyed and many will be Residents and city leaderes have also raised questions about whether this projecg is any different from “Thse 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 quier for fiveyears … But after spendinf five years and millions of dollars buying land and analyzint the vision and creating the I firmly believe this projecg will happen." Pending a processw for capturing public input and state tax McKee said his company would like to start some infrastructure work in earlyu spring 2010. The includd 3.5 million square feet of officwe space, one million square feet of retail one million square feet of servicetech space, four corporats campuses and 10,000 houses in a dozen different residential neighborhoods spread out over 2,1009 acres.