Forests_green_space

1:05:22 - Things keep popping up that are raising questions, but this is totally beside the point, but it does help because parks have been known in urban settings to facilitate growth. People congregate and it spills over into the joint ones. So I didn't know, this is more of a Patrick question, is like, does the city have any, I mean, I know we've got the reserve, right? We've got hundreds upon hundreds of acres over on the other side of the freeway, and that's great. But do we have any ideas for another like underdeveloped block in downtown that we can do a park that maybe would instigate residential around it or businesses? - So the downtown redevelopment study that preceded this actually did, I mean, Matt and his team, they actually looked at a number of parcels and they zeroed in on some of the parcels right around the new seasons and said they thought

1:06:18 that putting in some kind of park or open space, urban plaza kind of space would drive additional development or could spur that next wave of investment in that part of town. I think we agree with that philosophy in general that the site-specific stuff is yet to be determined and we've shared it with our parks colleagues and we all agree. So there's an execution part of it, like how do we do that? But I think we're in agreement that downtown needs more active spaces and we know not just as a public good, but we know what that does to drive investment and make it attractive places for people to live and work and businesses to locate. So we're absolutely in agreement on that. I really, I just want to emphasize we bring you these things

1:07:15 and these components and there isn't a perfect kind of grand plan, but it is intentional that these are all interlocking things. So we, and part of the, I'm in year five of this department that we've created, it's meant to be this integrated thing.