"We've been walking down Centre Avenue for years - we know how to get Downtown," responded Hill District resident Mel Watts, echoing concerns of other residents, more than 100 of whom attended the gathering. "You're going to build this and the white folks are going to enjoy it. You need to show us a view beyond Centre Avenue."

"We do have to figure out how we get more clout in this process, because we don't have it," said Carl Redwood, Consensus Group chairman. "Sometimes that's got to mean we stop them doing what they want to do until they go through this process" of working with the Consensus Group.

"I think we're headed toward an impasse," Redwood said. "We need to think up a mechanism that's going to hold them accountable. We have to pick a fighting point."

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