Cautious optimism guides development today. Nobody today would move as quickly as the developers did in the late 1980s. Yet our economy is a funny thing. Today's lenders want developers with pre-leases. Hill expects some lenders will eventually grow weary of such companies.
Miller wonders too.
In one sense, at least, construction may have somewhat peaked. While insiders like Jess Abed and Tony Stewart of Baugh project growth for the next three years or so, chances are there won't be too much more of it downtown. Some expect that growth will take place in the neighborhoods, as with Fremont's Quadrant complex, the home to Adobe. Then, only one last item will remain on the agenda. This town must grow a life, which means all these people need a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker.