John McIlwain Quotations

Right now, many people are in limbo and don't know whether to rebuild or what to do next. There needs to be a plan, and there needs to be funding for that plan, but right now there is neither.

Our take around here is, if there's a way to do it in the field, that's how we want to do it. There's only so much you can do in the classroom. This really brings it home.

There's a pull from the attractiveness of city living, and there's a push from the traffic and congestion.

It's a lot tougher a business, but the profits are a lot higher in the urban market.

It's much more intensive. It takes longer to plan and longer to get approval. The kind of building is very different from what most suburban builders do.

The biggest and most valuable commodity in (the baby boomer population) is time. People are all the time spending money in order to have more time.

In some cases, if they want to sell soon, they might have to reduce their price significantly.

In principal, we've all been supporting Congressman Baker's bill because it's the best plan out there.