Andrew Mazzella
187:35 - 188:02
"the ban that's targeted at this, that's why we have to— we have no choice to take a hostile position on it because, um, you're going to cost— first of all, you're going to cost the town more money than you can even imagine in the lost revenue"
“the ban that's targeted at this, that's why we have to— we have no choice to take a hostile position on it because, um, you're going to cost— first of all, you're going to cost the town more money than you can even imagine in the lost revenue”
- Speaker
- Andrew Mazzella
- Timestamp
- 187:35 – 188:02
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- September 11, 2026
From the transcript
There literally are no cons, but we discussed any potential cons, uh, that concerns people might have. Um, and then in the next 6 months, while we have 10 people engineering this specific project, You know, it comes out of nowhere that, that you guys can say this is about other properties, but obviously this is only about this property. And so the ban that's targeted at this, that's why we have to— we have no choice to take a hostile position on it because, um, you're going to cost— first of all, you're going to cost the town more money than you can even imagine in the lost revenue Um, and then, you know, my business is going to have the same thing. Well, we're not going to invest in the town then. We'll go, we'll go to one of our other multiple projects.
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