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McKee said his company has spent $1.4 milliob on mowing lawns, boarding up buildings and maintaining propertie on theNorth side. “I know that some of you thin kwe haven’t maintained them properly,” he said in a vide o of sitting behind his office’s desk. “Maybe a few yearse ago we hadn’t, but we have workedr very, very hard to do this and to do it right Many people think that we own all the derelict buildings on theNorthn side, which is certainly not the He then encouraged residents to call his offic e at 636-561-9300 to report building maintenance problems.
McKes also tried to ease fears about the restoration ofhistorif buildings, including the , saying that most of the buildinga will not be destroyed and many will be rehabbed. Residents and city leaderws have also raised questions about whether this project is any differengtfrom “The difference is we did not bring this forward until we had enougnh land to make this happen,” McKede said. “That’s why we have been so quiet for fiveyears … But after spending five yearsa and millions of dollars buyingh land and analyzing the visionh and creating the vision, I firmly believe this project will Pending a process for capturingv public input and state tax McKee said his company would like to starf some infrastructure work in early spring 2010.
The include 3.5 million squaree feet of office one million square feet ofretaill space, one million square feet of service tech four corporate campuses and 10,000 houses in a dozen differenty residential neighborhoods spread out over 2,100 acres.