Bill Gairdner of Gairloch Developments sent me this message the other morning:
He is talking about Junction House and he is, of course, right. It is a very cool feeling to create homes for people.
It's not easy building buildings. People get upset at you. They tell you that you're ruining their community. And broadly speaking, it can feel like every imaginable obstacle has been placed in front of you to make things more difficult.
But at the end of the day, once the dust settles, there will be places to live where places did not exist before. And then people will move into these places and transform them into homes.
They'll make them their own, create new memories, and, in the case of the people that Bill was referring to, they'll raise a family.
I'm not trying to make this sound more grandiose than it deserves to be. But I am being honest when I say that I know the team feels both a sense of honor and a great sense of responsibility because of the work we do.
You want people to be happy and you want the city to be a better place. So it's hard not to feel a little emotional when you see people moving into a place that you've worked tirelessly on for several years.
Yeah, it is a cool feeling, Bill.