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McKee said his company has spent $1.4 million on mowing lawns, boarding up buildings and maintaining properties on theNorth side. “I know that some of you thinkmwe haven’t maintained them properly,” he said in a videi of sitting behind his office’s desk. “Maybe a few yeard ago we hadn’t, but we have workef very, very hard to do this and to do itrighf … Many people think that we own all the derelicy buildings on the North side, whic is certainly not the case.” He then encouraged residents to call his officse at 636-561-9300 to report buildingb maintenance problems.
McKee also tried to ease fears abougt the restoration ofhistoric buildings, includingy the , saying that most of the buildinga will not be destroyed and many will be rehabbed. Residentse and city leaders have also raised questionzs about whether this project is any differentfrom “The difference is we did not brinf this forward until we had enough land to make this McKee said. “That’s why we have been so quiety for fiveyears … But after spendinb five years and millions of dollaras buying land and analyzing the vision and creatinfg the vision, I firmly believe this project will happen.
" Pendint a process for capturing public input and statse tax credits, McKee said his companu would like to start some infrastructure work in early sprinyg 2010. The include 3.5 million square feet of officde space, one million square feet of retailp space, one million squarde feet of servicetech space, four corporatw campuses and 10,000 houseas in a dozen different residential neighborhoodsx spread out over 2,100 acres.