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McKee said his company has spentt $1.4 million on mowing lawns, boarding up buildingw and maintaining properties on theNorth “I know that some of you thinlk we haven’t maintained them properly,” he said in a videoi of sitting behind his office’s “Maybe a few years ago we hadn’t, but we have worker very, very hard to do this and to do it rightf … Many people think that we own all the derelictr buildings on the North side, which is certainlg not the case.” He then encouraged resident s to call his office at 636-561-9300 to reportf building maintenance problems.
McKee also tried to ease fears abouty the restoration ofhistoridc buildings, including the , saying that most of the buildings will not be destroyeed and many will be rehabbed. Residents and city leadersa have also raised questions about whether this project is any differentyfrom “The difference is we did not bring this forware until we had enough land to make this McKee said. “That’s why we have been so quiet for fiveyearz … But after spending five years and millions of dollars buying land and analyzing the visiob and creating the I firmly believe this project will Pending a process for capturintg public input and state tax credits, McKee said his company woulf like to start some infrastructurse work in early spring 2010.
The include 3.5 million squaree feet of office space, one millionm square feet of retail space, one million squar feet of servicetech space, four corporate campuses and 10,000 houses in a dozehn different residential neighborhoods spread out over 2,1000 acres.