"It's amazing the way darkness falls, and the truth out there is cold and nothing can keep you warm...I gotta know right now will I be rich, have everything I want. I stop myself and look to the sky."
Most of the people that know me, know that I love me some Robin Thicke! Not because, as Vibe magazine called him in the October 2008 issue, he's "the white boy that turned you out" (pg 112) or because I really think he's a black man in a white man's body or even because his music crosses genres, generations and gender gaps. But because his music is the soundtrack to my life. "2 The Sky" is track #14 on Thicke's second album, The Evolution of Robin Thicke, and I have it on repeat so much that the track has started to skip lol.
The song goes on to say that the material things don't matter. The faster car, the bigger house- none of that matters in the end because all you really need is friends and love. And that's what I've found I have: more friends than enemies and more love and support than what the naysayers will have me believe. It's time to look to the sky!
And boy will we be doing that at Concept! The building that I will be submitting an SBA loan application for is 15,000 total square feet with 3 floors. The project calls for an additional floor to be added which will be the rooftop garden and lounge. I went to the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Show in October 2007 and saw a retractable rooftop enclosure that I knew I had to have (www.rollacover.com).
The rooftop is approximately 4,300 square feet and at $80 per square foot for the enclosure, it's going to be tough to get a decent ROI on the $344K it will take to add that to the project. So, I've decided to have the enclosure cover 22x75 of space bringing me to $132,000 for that line item in the budget. When Robin is performing at the Grand Opening Celebration for Concept, maybe we'll have it on the rooftop and I can be on my way to recouping that investment via ticket sales!!
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