But from much smaller scale development, I've seen a lot of them something of this nature.
Okay, well let me, and you know, I know, okay, a lot of people.
We didn't pick industrial realty group.
Warehouses are a picked industrial realty group.
That's who they sold it to.
Now, an industrial realty group is actually owns 100, and again, I'm not their spokesman today,
they have owned 100 million square feet of office space throughout the United States.
So they're doing a whole bunch of different things all over the country.
A lot of what they do is redevelop properties.
We all had the chance to go online, you know, I went online and saw what they were doing.
And so they, you know, it's not for us to say the warehouses don't sell to industrial realty group.
That's not up for us.
So the fact that that's in their name is immaterial.
The other thing is, when they identify as a potential somebody to occupy that property,
or you know, to buy that property and put that there, it's not for us to say, you know,
don't even think about it, don't even think about filing an application.
They have every right to file an application.
That does not mean that we have to approve it.
There's been no, you know, pre-determination of this whatsoever.
They identified a corporate headquarters.
What's that?
We're not interpreting it.
We have not interpreted any of it.
We've received...
The application is there's no discretion.
If you do have some discretion in this process, it's just been implemented in one direction.
Well, this process three is, I think the court could have, you know, again, let's get down to the,
what Dr. Brown keeps referring to, and you guys, is process three versus process four.
That was a legal determination in regard to what best fit with the concomitant agreement.
It was a legal determination in regard to how...
We should have a man show you the word.
I mean, it comes down to one word in all the description of what's required and when it's required.
One word, that's an interpretation.
All right.
Did you have any...
Oh, this is something I'd say.
I think everybody here is more concerned what goes forward.
I went just down and put fingers on the past, so...
Right.
You can turn it around.
Great. Please do that.
Please do that.
Oh, that's fine.
Thank you very much.
You know, that's a good...
I think you...
What was your first name again?
Eric?
Eric, that's right.
That's a really good point.
You know, I understand you...
We...
Let's, as we say, many of us say in our lives, let's agree to disagree.
That decision has been made.
Process three versus process four.
I don't have a time machine, okay?
None of us do.
That's the decision that was made.
Now, you could be upset about that.
That's totally all right.
But that is what we're operating on right now.
And we're on that process.
And that's what we're going to do.
There is an appeal to get to the hearing examiner.
But I don't have a time machine.
And so what we need to do is move forward with what we've got.
But I can tell you that we did not recruit.
We did not entice.
We did not say, sure, yeah, that sounds great.
Yeah, that we're good.
A-OK.
And that's, I think, at the core of it.
That's what my...
And I'm going to own this, you guys.
My supportive statements early on, I think, really...
I think people, you know, that really dug in with a lot of people about,
oh, my God, is the fix in.
Absolutely not.
That we actually have to go through this process.
I'm committed to it.
As a former prosecutor, it's been 19 years following the law,
putting people in prison for violations of law.
That is my obligation to make sure that we follow that.
And we'll do that.
So, thank you.
Good evening.
Larry Favisky, I live in the warehouse in your neighborhood.
I'm a resident of Southwest King County for almost 76 years.
30 of that, I spent as a deputy sheriff, mostly him in Southwest King County.
Oh, it's Jason.
So I have watched a lot of growth.
Yeah.
And this was good.
Of course.
We found a phone car stick in this neighborhood.
It's coach data.
Yeah.
For that in mind, the warehouse or complex section has already been set.
It's iconic.
Every successful city has icons.
Seattle has the space people.
Tacoma has the dome and on and on and on and on.
What do we have?
We have warehouses.
Right.
That is what icons.
Right.
Agreed.
I have friends that were on the visit.
And they said, well, where do you live?
I said, well, trouble right here.
I said, what the hell's that?
Where's the trouble?
And you're going to sit here for like 25 years and nobody knows who you are.
Just tell them it's where the responsibility is.
I said, you're just east of the, I live.
Very much.
Sir.
I live just east of the warehouse.
I'll be 18.
Okay.
I said, well, I live just east of the warehouse.
Oh, I know where that is.
They can write back to us.
That is a valuable, super valuable market saving item in Federal Way.
If people start driving by that and they see this beautiful space,
slowly framed square buildings,
a lot of us are big generators on this number,
they're going to say,
what in the hell happened at Federal Way?
What would a hell work in this city?
What's that written?
Who are people to think?
Okay.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.
Great to see you.
Thank you very much.
So, I know you guys, you kind of laughed about the color, the size.
But what Lawrence has talked about was the dimensions of this,
where that's located,
that is subject to something that we can work with them about
to make sure that you don't have that,
where it doesn't damage this property.
So, is it a done deal?
It is not a done deal.
We can deny it.
We can?
We can?
We can.
We can.
We can.
That's what we're supposed to be talking about.
The process is exactly for this.
I'm sorry.
I can't imagine that they would spend that kind of money
if they didn't take the thing.
Who are we talking about?
Is it okay?
Hold on.
Why would they spend that kind of money?
I can't imagine anybody investing the kind of money
that was spent on this project,
on all parties, IRG or to all of them,
if they didn't know this was going to be their fortune.
Why would they spend that kind of money
if they didn't come in the air the way you say it is?
Right here in Seattle Times.
Can you guys hear?
Los Angeles based industrial building group
paid $7.5 million Tuesday
for the Federal Way campus of Warehouser.
It says it plans to sell off large pieces for redevelopment.
This is dated, excuse me,
I'm the date here, anyhow, it was in June,
I believe, corporate campus,
about 20 miles south of Seattle,
along Interstate 5, covers 425 acres
and nearly 811,000 square feet of office,
lab and industrial space,
officials said, with suburban office markets
across the nation and the slum,
Federal Way officials and neighbors
are eager to see what the buyer proposes to do
with surplus land and surrounding existing buildings.
Quote, that's been a big fear, Colin.
People think the meadows are going to be single family dwellings
or multi-family housing.
End quote, said Brian Wilson, Chief of Staff
to Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell.
We want to see job growth.
Warehouser, one of the Pacific,
was end quote, Warehouser,
one of the Pacific Northwest oldest companies
moved from Tacoma to the campus in 1971.
But in August 2014,
he shook up the region's office market
by enhancing and would relocate
to a new building in downtown Seattle
in summer 2016.
Okay, excuse me, excuse me.
We've got a bunch of people online here.
So thank you very much for, you know, that's a June article.
Don't we give preference to the people
at the microphone to talk about this?
Yes, sir.
Thank you very much.
Go ahead, please.
My name's Elizabeth Carey,
and I live quite near this area.
Sitting here tonight,
a number of things have come to mind.
First off, many times tonight,
you've said that yourself and the other people,
the City of Visuals, are working for us,
working for the citizens.
We do.
But it seems to me that you're working for IRG.
You look at even this letter that everybody got tonight,
and it's all like, oh, well, you know,
if you just cross this T and dot that I,
and you need to do this,
it seems like you're concerned.
The City is concerned about moving the process along for them,
and not for the citizens.
That goes from deciding it's going to be process three,
easier for them, versus process four,
to meetings that have apparently been had for months on end.
And this, I consider to be a real issue.
Who are you really working for?
Whose interests do you really have at heart?
The City's.
That's not the inversion that we're left with.
Another thing here is I'm curious about is you're mentioning
that there's possible fires in line for that preferred freezer site
if that does not go through.
But they entered into a purchase agreement on February 10th,
what, maybe 10 days after the deal closed?
Well, to sell that particular parcel for preferred freezer.
Well, how's that going to work out if they've already bought that land?
I'm not involved in that whole exchange between them.
Yeah, but the separate parcel, if you look at online.
Well, and that's exactly, and in regard to your question about that,
that's exactly why we held this meeting.
I started hearing him at the council meetings,
and I'm trying to hold some sort of order.
I'm trying to hear you guys.
There's anger in this.
And I said this, and I'll say it again, we work for you.
We've got to follow the law.
So when we send those comments back,
it's because we received an application, we've got to process it.
And it's an extensive letter, and it's a set of circumstances.
But I can tell you, I try every day when I get to the office to do better,
and a lot of this is optics and about how things are perceived.
There is no question, I don't work for IRG, I work for you, period.
And we're doing our level best, and we have to respond.
I think the other thing is we can't just out of hand say,
no, we've got to.
