Let's see....

- Continental wants to assure its employees have a long term security of parking since their current city owned parking might go away. However, they can't or aren't willing to afford, what the city sees as a fair price to this huge parking structure and they don't need that much parking anyway.

- Chase tower is in danger of further deteriorating and needs a motivated owner (hopefully with local connections) to invest in it and shore up an important structure in our downtown. They also believe long term security in a long term solution to their tennants' parking needs is beneficial. They too can't justify buying the totality of this size structure.

- The alliance believes that by a cooperative buying of the garage the city can fortify the long term impact of these two businesses who are important to the city for business and real-estate purposes in a core part of our evolving downtown. By combining forces the two can pay a higher amount and help make a new facility possibile, further developing a key area in our downtown renaissaince. The Alliance coordinates all parties to make this happen.

I can see why people think this is a nefarious role for the Alliance. I am sure they believe we should let what happened to the Skirven years ago, and what happened to 1st National years ago, to happen again and just let everything work itself out in a decade or two. Perfect.