In his State of the City Address Mayor Driscoll laid out ambitious plans for

residential and commercial development. Many of the plans are joint projects between government and private interests and they will need approval before the Common Council. The Council needs to understand that there is urgency to the plight of the City and that they need to act quickly and decisively on projects that come before them.  It took five years longer to approve Destiny than it should have and with all that time passing came a dramatic change in the financial markets that is now a great disadvantage.  The moral is: when you are presented a window of opportunity, you need to take it before the window closes.