“There is a public good in having historic and beautiful buildings downtown. It is good to have skyscrapers, but you also need some touchstones to the past to make it interesting and distinctive.”
“The name doesn't impact sales. What impacts sales is the characteristics or the traits of the variety and how that impacts the bottom lines of the growers.”
“It's not ideal under preservation standards; it is considered bad preservation by some. Others think it is better to have the building, even if it isn't on its original site.”