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It was actually losing $6 million a year. When we got the concession to build it and when we won and became one of, I think, a great example of public-private partnerships working together. But I think the biggest challenge in having such a radical use conversion is... just how you lay it out.

It was actually losing $6 million a year. When we got the concession to build it and when we won and became one of, I think, a great example of public-private partnerships working together. But I think the biggest challenge in having such a radical use conversion is... just how you lay it out.

It was actually losing $6 million a year. When we got the concession to build it and when we won and became one of, I think, a great example of public-private partnerships working together. But I think the biggest challenge in having such a radical use conversion is... just how you lay it out.

So the amount of time I would get on that Acela twice a week, three times a week to spend day trips down in Washington, and we would walk every single inch of the building, laying out the floor plans, debating over the configuration of a room. There were almost 300 rooms and there were almost 300 layouts. So nothing could be repeated.

So the amount of time I would get on that Acela twice a week, three times a week to spend day trips down in Washington, and we would walk every single inch of the building, laying out the floor plans, debating over the configuration of a room. There were almost 300 rooms and there were almost 300 layouts. So nothing could be repeated.

So the amount of time I would get on that Acela twice a week, three times a week to spend day trips down in Washington, and we would walk every single inch of the building, laying out the floor plans, debating over the configuration of a room. There were almost 300 rooms and there were almost 300 layouts. So nothing could be repeated.

Whereas when you're building from scratch, you have a box and you decide where you want to add things. you know, potential elements and you kind of can stack the floor plan all the way up. But when you're working within a building like this, every single room was different. You see the setback. So the setback then required you to move the plumbing. So there was no, it was really a labor of love.

Whereas when you're building from scratch, you have a box and you decide where you want to add things. you know, potential elements and you kind of can stack the floor plan all the way up. But when you're working within a building like this, every single room was different. You see the setback. So the setback then required you to move the plumbing. So there was no, it was really a labor of love.

Whereas when you're building from scratch, you have a box and you decide where you want to add things. you know, potential elements and you kind of can stack the floor plan all the way up. But when you're working within a building like this, every single room was different. You see the setback. So the setback then required you to move the plumbing. So there was no, it was really a labor of love.

And to do something like this, and that's why I think renovation, we had it with Doral as well. It was $700,000. rooms over 650 acres of property. And so every single unit was very different and complicated. Not as complicated in some ways. The scale of it was so massive, but not as complicated as the old post office. But it required a level of precision. And I think in real estate, you have a

And to do something like this, and that's why I think renovation, we had it with Doral as well. It was $700,000. rooms over 650 acres of property. And so every single unit was very different and complicated. Not as complicated in some ways. The scale of it was so massive, but not as complicated as the old post office. But it required a level of precision. And I think in real estate, you have a

And to do something like this, and that's why I think renovation, we had it with Doral as well. It was $700,000. rooms over 650 acres of property. And so every single unit was very different and complicated. Not as complicated in some ways. The scale of it was so massive, but not as complicated as the old post office. But it required a level of precision. And I think in real estate, you have a

um and a lot of people who are in the business of sort of acquiring and flipping so it's more financial engineering than it is building and they don't spend the time sort of sweating these details that make something great and make something functional and you feel it in the end result um But I mean, blood, sweat, tears, years of my life for those projects. And it was worth it.

um and a lot of people who are in the business of sort of acquiring and flipping so it's more financial engineering than it is building and they don't spend the time sort of sweating these details that make something great and make something functional and you feel it in the end result um But I mean, blood, sweat, tears, years of my life for those projects. And it was worth it.

um and a lot of people who are in the business of sort of acquiring and flipping so it's more financial engineering than it is building and they don't spend the time sort of sweating these details that make something great and make something functional and you feel it in the end result um But I mean, blood, sweat, tears, years of my life for those projects. And it was worth it.

I enjoyed almost every minute of it.

I enjoyed almost every minute of it.

I enjoyed almost every minute of it.

Um, when, when proposals are put forth by an architect and, and really just the plan is accepted without, and in the case of a renovation, like if you're not walking those rooms, the number of times a beautifully laid out room was on a blueprint and then I'd go to Washington and I'd walk that floor and I'd realize that there was a column that ran right up through the middle of the space where, you know, the bed was supposed to be, or the toilet was supposed to be, or,

Um, when, when proposals are put forth by an architect and, and really just the plan is accepted without, and in the case of a renovation, like if you're not walking those rooms, the number of times a beautifully laid out room was on a blueprint and then I'd go to Washington and I'd walk that floor and I'd realize that there was a column that ran right up through the middle of the space where, you know, the bed was supposed to be, or the toilet was supposed to be, or,