buildings we had and what i
would call downtown riverton
have been most of those have
been taken away through widening
the roads by udo.
so, we had a pretty clean, clear
canvas that we could develop.
and when i went on the council,
there was a senior member and
his slogan was which i adopted
in my own mind as well, you only
have one time to build out a
city.
build it out right.
and so, that became the
overarching goal, too, and so,
we don't have a lot of economic
redevelop.
we have economic develop because
of that.
which has been blessing for us.
and these aren't necessarily in
the order of importance but
they're the goals that i've had
all the time.
one is to have and develop over
space and we developed open
space starting with parks.
and in the nine years that i've
been in as mayor, little over
nine years, we spent $28 million