✆ “I absolutely do not support the idea of a bunch of 21-story luxury apartment buildings in downtown replacing Santa Monica Place. That particular mall would do really well if they’d just quit screwing up the parking and let us get in and out. I kind of quit going there when they tore up Fourth Street. Also, this is Santa Monica, not Miami. Miami is a mess, and it looks like a mess, and that’s what’s going to happen to Santa Monica if they keep this up.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 4, 2004. Read the original PDF.