Who came up with the movie theatre idea?
That was a trademark of our investment partners, Millennium. They always tried in their towers to lift them as high above the street level as possible. So thirty feet went to the movies right away and made the apartments better than having them at the ground floor. You know, we were a group of people. I’m not sure who came up with the idea. But I think it was all planted in our mind that we wanted to build movies. And here we had a site where logically the movies made a lot of sense. So from the beginning when we were bidding it, there were movies involved in this project, albeit the plan was much smaller than we actually built. What was your vision for Cady’s Alley? I started that in 1999, and it came about because I was walking down a street and saw a dejected broker. And I said, what’s happened? He said, “There’s a guy, someone we all know, who just dropped the contract on this building. And it’s just a negotiating ploy. And you know, it’s so painful and I’m fed up with it.” And I s
