Steve Pohlman Quotations

We're all here to be sponges. We're here to absorb what it is you are looking to see.

It's really a long-range issue. We're acquiring the property today to meet the needs of the city in the future.

We just want to see what the market does.

It cost $6,000 to $10,000 a lot to acquire park space in 2002, 2003. Now it costs $90,000 a lot. The parks master plan put the (total) costs at $70 million. That's not even close today. People want their kids to play soccer. There isn't even a playground, not one, north of Pine Island Road. That is an expanding part of the city.

It would create a campus-type atmosphere. People could easily go from one place to another.

We don't want to lose any more uplands.