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university, and they indicated to us even at this point more than 400 students were turned away because of a lack of housing. We are also looking at the creation of the Mauna Kea education facility at the tech park, as well as the Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center. All of these projects seem to be coming together within the next few years, which will create a demand not only for housing but for services, and that is why the commercial area. If you would look at the present growth in the Hilo commercial area, most of our commercial area has gone south into the area of Puainako and Kanoelehua. Most of your food and retail is out in that direction. And Downtown Hilo, you have Sack and Save and a small KTA. We think the growth on the north side of Hilo, with the opening up of C. Brewer lands, has created an opportunity to create a commercial center catering to not only the nearby university but also to the population that is growing up north of Hilo. SPRINGER:Thank you. Can you repeat for me again the name of the agricultural -? YAMASHIRO:Pacific Basin, PBARC, Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center. I understand it'll have about a hundred researchers plus related staff, and they will relocate all of the Federal Department of Agriculture research facilities for tropical agriculture to Hilo. U.S. Forestry Service is also intending to relocate with this facility. And then there's the hopeful growth of the community college, which has about 300 acres, like I said, right in -, the balance of this area, is designated for the community college so -. SPRINGER:Did I correctly hear that there's a federal component to this ag research center? YAMASHIRO:It is a federal -, it is the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it's not the state. And the forestry service is also the U.S. Forestry Service. FUJIKAWA:Any other questions? Director Yuen. YUEN:Do you have that list of proposed changes to the conditions in writing that I can review it during the meeting? YAMASHIRO:Sure. YUEN:That would assist in making response to this. Just in -, and just as a comment to the previous question about the timing, our recommendation doesn't have a time frame for the completion of the project, it does have a time frame for the commencement of the project and the building of the Puainako Extension, which would be the major infrastructure cost involved. For a long term large project to say, to give a time frame for the completion is a little difficult because say your time frame ends and the project is 80 percent built, then to say that well, the time is now up, there's no, really no good reason for saying that at that, at a point 10 to 20 years in the future to say that the time frame is up. At 9