I think we've got a great city. A lot of other people do too.
I'm not taking the credit for it; I'm just saying
you have a great city because you have successful business, parks, recreation, cultural opportunities, that sort of thing.
The developments that we have done we're proud of,
and Cameron Village, my dad of course did it but I was involved in a lot of it in the later years.
A city is nothing but a series of developments.
Downtown revitalization; who better than somebody that understands the development process?
Then as a developer the projects we've done-Mission Valley, Cameron Village, others-we're proud of those.
We think they set a good standard.
The Urban Land Institute has been very instrumental in our family for many years.
My dad joined in 1946,
and the records of the ULI say 1947, but it was either 1946 or 1947.
I think it was 1946.
But in any event he became very interested in
developing a shopping center.
He met a gentleman by the name of J.C. Nichols
who had developed Country Club Plaza in Kansas City,
a very famous center, project,
and he got the idea for a shopping center. I mean there were
no shopping centers really in the United States-
well I say no; there were maybe eight or ten shopping centers in the United States-
but in a book by this author Daniel Yergin,
He wrote a book called The Prize.
he wrote a book called The Prize about the history of oil and won a Pulitzer Prize for that book and it was chronicled on PBS,
but on page five fifty-one he said the first major planned retail shopping center in the United States opened in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1949,
so that obviously was Cameron Village.