Steve Pohlman Quotations

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.

We just want to see what the market does.

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

We don't want to lose any more uplands.

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

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