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as • for it. We intend to finance the project, at least at this point, 100%, as was our experience at Lakeshore Drive. So, I guess you could say, that's the one liner for financing. Detailed questions on that and Art, I'm sure, can fill that in. Bruce Knutson This very quickly, so we don't run out of time for your questions and answers, I'll address more specifically phase 1 and how we approached it architecturally. The basic massing of the building, we tried to pull away from Kenzie Terrace in terms of where the major part of the units would be, there's a lot of traffic on that street and as the commercial is developed, there'll probably be more traffic. So, as a basic concept we put the unit as far away from the terrace as can. Also, we do not want to encroach on single family residences behind. what we've done in terms of providing 'a transition phase, is to bring our service, our parking, all.the noisy aspects to the site, in off of Kenzie Terrace. The only contact with the residential area would be a service lane in the alley, which would be like garbage pick up.. The other thing that this provides in that kind of a•shape for the building is by keeping the vehicular traffic oriented in front of the building in the center, it allows us to provide pedestrian type circulation in the back side, allowing for landscape, berming and screening between the alley and residential area, mobile home area and some commercial in the future, but allows.a nice private area around the building that would be basically for the people's in that project. Carrying that down to phase 2 and 3, using the same concept, keeping the • vehicular input to the site down the middle and allowing green space as a buffer between the multi -family and the residential on the other side so that you have definition between the two spaces for nice land- scaping and pedestrian related kind of details. Going into the design of the building itself, we have essentially four basic units and these are all covered in your booklet so I'll just touch on them quickly. Standard one bedroom units, deluxe one bedroom, breaks into two different categories and two bedroom units. They help define and create the geometry of the building because our experience in Richfield was that, if you look .at type B units, which are one bedroom deluxes, we found in the market in the Richfield project, that people were excited about unusually shaped apartments. I guess they lived in boxes most of their lives and wanted something more exciting. As Tony suggested, that as the marketing goes on for this project, there may come a few more bends or kinks in the building depending on what the market is looking for. In Richfield, we went through several building designs, changing the unit mix, changing the angles of the building to respond to what the market was, but staying within the same number of units that was projected for the project. As you can see, the building has lots of corners, lots of interest for the units and generally it's been accepted very highly for the market and has been very successful. The building has a main entry in the middle, the social programs that • Tony addressed, the office space, hobby and exercise and all those kinds of facilities are in the middle on the first floor. In addition, the