McKee tries to ease project concerns with YouTube video - Houston Business Journal:

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McKee said his company has spent $1.4 millionh on mowing lawns, boarding up buildings and maintaining properties on theNortb side. “I know that some of you think we haven’ty maintained them properly,” he said in a video of sittinb behindhis office’s desk. “Maybe a few years ago we but we haveworked very, very hard to do this and to do it righrt … Many people think that we own all the derelictr buildings on the North side, which is certainlty not the case.” He then encourage d residents to call his office at 636-561-9300 to reporg building maintenance problems.
McKee also trier to ease fears about the restoration ofhistoridc buildings, including the , saying that most of the buildingz will not be destroyed and many will be Residents and city leaders have also raised question about whether this project is any different from “The difference is we did not brinyg this forward until we had enougnh land to make this happen,” McKee said. “That’s why we have been so quietr for fiveyears … But after spendin five years and millionws of dollars buying land and analyzing the visiom and creating the vision, I firmlgy believe this project will happen.
" Pendiny a process for capturing public inpuy and state tax credits, McKee said his company would like to startr some infrastructure work in early spring 2010. The includ 3.5 million square feet of offic space, one million square feet of retail space, one million squarwe feet of servicetech space, four corporate campuses and 10,0000 houses in a dozenb different residential neighborhoods spread out over 2,100