A city, you have said, is like a heart, which when healthy pumps life through its entire region. Your own developments have brought life to regions all across our country. Manhattan’s U.N. Plaza, the Williams Center in Tulsa, and Century City in Los Angeles all pumped new vitality into those urban centers. Chicago’s Lake Point Tower bucked convention as the nation’s tallest residential building, then set the model of how to lure people back to city living. Prairie Crossing was the nation’s first conservation community. At one hundred and eighty million dollars and more than two thousand rooms, the Chicago Hilton and Towers became the world’s largest hotel renovation and opened the city’s South Loop to further development. The Museum Tower residence, built with the air rights above New York’s Museum of Modem Art, creatively provides continuing financial support for one of the world’s great museums. Your crowning achievement, however, may be Homan Square. A decade of your tireless work brought a whole section of Chicago’s West Side back to life–converting the huge, abandoned Sears catalog headquarters into more than three hundred units of affordable housing, anchored by the magnificent Homan Square Community Center Campus with facilities for education, counseling, health care, and recreation. What once was a dead shell now holds a healthy community, enriching the personal and civic lives of its residents. You began your career believing that America’s downtowns could be saved and were vital to the country’s future. Now, when the history of the resurgence of our cities is written, one of the central figures will tum out to have been you.