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RW: I think about now is when we'd like to break and start to walk around a little bit. I did want to mention just a little bit about maybe the future of this site, and the fact that the city of Seattle is now interested in purchasing the property...

KO: Correct.

RW: ...once again. And that you're considering consolidating your business, so that you would have some more leisure time and be able to cut back a little more on the business.

KO: That's right. We're at the age now where I think we deserve a little time off. [Laughs] Yes, I have a meeting with the Park Department at two o'clock tomorrow, in fact. Not I, but we do. We're really getting down to the nitty gritty now so, either it's going to happen, or not happen, shortly. We'll soon see. Then that will tell the future of this place, and our business.

RW: Do you have some wishes for what you'd like to see happen to this site, if it was to transfer to the city and become public open space?

KO: Well, I think we're quite happy about the fact that the city is interested in keeping this an open space. Because we'd hate to see -- not that it's bad -- just a bunch of homes built right over the property. And if it's, if they can develop an area where people can come and enjoy themselves, especially the youngsters, I think we'd have a good feeling about that.

RW: Would you like to see some of the greenhouse structures be reused in anyway?

KO: Well, if it could be worked out, and you could get a project going that would maintain the greenhouses and keep it from being vandalized, I think there's a good opportunity to show people how, what a greenhouse is and how plants are grown. But, that'll be somebody else's decision, not ours.

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