RIPE FOR THE REDEVELOPER’S PICKIN’
“I truly believe it’s one of the top five sites for a mall redevelopment in the nation.” – Don Provost, principal of Alberta Development Partners, based in Greenwood Village, regarding plans to scrape much of Southglenn Mall in Centennial and build an outdoor shopping mecca and lofts on the site by 2008
HOW ABOUT A JOB DELIVERING PIZZAS?
“It was wrong. But I didn’t think it was bad enough to get fired over.” – Jim Garrison, of Highlands Ranch, who lost his job at a Denver mortgage company last year after pilfering pizza in a break-room refrigerator. Garrison won a $4,000 Caribbean cruise for two in an online contest to decide the most outrageous reason to be fired
A BIG-TIME SMALL-TIME AWARD
“I was shocked. I had no idea I would win.” – Lori Nevarez, president of Littleton’s Innovar Environmental Inc., on being named National Minority Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration
A SURREAL EXPERIENCE TO TRUMP ALL OTHERS
“Can you believe we’re riding through wheat fields in a limo with Donald?” – Martin Lind, a developer in Windsor, sharing a limo with Donald Trump after Trump’s appearance in Loveland last week
