Lisa, some of your comments are spot on, but the Citizen was not gutted, that's just not the case. All the lobbies have been completely and beautifully restored.

I was at the Boqueria Open Forum a few weeks ago. This market is clearly backed by the Agriculture and Tourism community - which generate Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in revenue a year(Food+Ag alone is $300+ Billion). Sounds like they will be called on to bridge the funding gap, and they are definitely capable of bridging it! In my opinion it's worth choosing the bigger vision, give Rubicon 3-6 months and see if they can pull it off. K Street needs some Vision!

This is about Vision, but it has to be Achievable. Personally I get confused with all the different numbers flying around in Sac Press, SN&R, SacBee, and BizJrnl Let's give Rubicon a couple of months to try to make this work, if they can't prove that it's achievable then we have some good alternatives, and all we've lost is some time. Sacrificing a couple of months is worth the shot at a Grander Vision, in my opinion.