Preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life and history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and historys 104th annual conference. We have of people moving, how the National Park service and preservation is how the story of black migration. My name is madeline, and the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks conservation association. Louder . Is that better . Sorry about that. Im so proud to be with you this afternoon. On behalf of teresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks conservation association, we have been a powerful independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through a nationwide network of offices, and with more than 1. 3 million members and supporters, npca s
It is economics. I apologize for the wonky notes. When we had the consultants look at the occurrence, the way they started, they looked at wetland costs today. They looked at what Construction Costs today which is astronomically going up between 515 per year. And they looked at what rents are today. That is how you start one of these things. They came back and they said, office space doesnt work. And we said, that is not a good answer because they are trying to build it. What did you do wrong . They said, what we think we did wrong is we need to understand that these projects have been in the pipeline for a while. What that means is they probably got their land for a little bit less. We know it they bought their land for. They may or may not have contract guaranteed minimum contract with a contractor that gives them some shielding, probably not too much. The last piece is that we are looking at todays rents, as high as they are. They came back to us on what they said is, obviously empi
Like to ask him about you can finish, i dont want to interrupt. Actually, this is part of the process. Im trying to learn. I am not the expert. Somebody of here promulgating the legislation, there someone else who has expertise. I want to hear from the person. I want to defend the integrity of the work that we do which is come at the end of the day, an estimate. It is not Electrical Engineering where there is an answer. It is economics. I apologize for the wonky notes. When we had the consultants look at the occurrence, the way they started, they looked at wetland costs today. They looked at what Construction Costs today which is astronomically going up between 515 per year. And they looked at what rents are today. That is how you start one of these things. They came back and they said, office space doesnt work. And we said, that is not a good answer because they are trying to build it. What did you do wrong . They said, what we think we did wrong is we need to understand that these pr
Integrity of the work that we do which is come at the end of the day, an estimate. It is not Electrical Engineering where there is an answer. It is economics. I apologize for the wonky notes. When we had the consultants look at the occurrence, the way they started, they looked at wetland costs today. They looked at what Construction Costs today which is astronomically going up between 515 per year. And they looked at what rents are today. That is how you start one of these things. They came back and they said, office space doesnt work. And we said, that is not a good answer because they are trying to build it. What did you do wrong . They said, what we think we did wrong is we need to understand that these projects have been in the pipeline for a while. What that means is they probably got their land for a little bit less. We know it they bought their land for. They may or may not have contract guaranteed minimum contract with a contractor that gives them some shielding, probably not t
Wouldve liked to tell you about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater. This friday augus august 16 at , william g. Hyland junior will tell us about a forgotten founding father, george mason, the founding father who gave us the bill of rights and then on tuesday september 10 at noon, said a blumenthal will tell us about this recently released a young three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln, all powers of earth, the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1856 to 1863. To find out more about these programs and our exhibits, please visit our website at archives. Gov calendar and youll also find some printed materials held in the lobby about Upcoming Events as well as the signup sheet so you can receive an electronic version of the monthly calendar. Phillip joins the Central Intelligence agency in 1985 as an analyst specializing in south asia and then the middle east. As the september 11 attacks he was the cia member of the small Diplomatic Team that helped piece together a new gov