Rick Caruso

“It's so, him losing the last election is so devastating because his body of work is truly He's created, what do you want a city to do? You want it to be highly enjoyable, livable, safe, a place where commerce can thrive, and that's what all of his spaces have …”

“They have off duty LAPD officers who actually open carry a sidearm. They used to be discreet kind of undercover, but then they changed this to carry to show the gun. And they also have facial recognition cameras, license plate scanners, a bunch of different te…”

“Because I think too many people think about the deal is like one way. Like I just need the tenant or I just need the bank. And really it's like, he is creating almost like an arbitrage. Like the bank wants to lend to a parking lot that has a relationship with …”

“I believe it is your duty to maximum, to maximally utilize that, that, that, that advantage relationship, whatever.”

“And the trolley is a crazy story because that needed, even though it just goes one block, it needed to be licensed as a train. So we had to go through all the train regulations to get it approved.”

“He became, he's very well known for not selling any of his properties. So he's the sole investor in his properties, but then he never sells. He just benefits from the appreciation and the cashflow.”

“The Grove became one of the region's top attractions with about twenty million visitors in the immediate pre-pandemic years, edging out Disneyland.”

“His properties are some of the best performing from retail standpoint in, in the country, like in the top five percent”

“He has the only structures, basically, in the Palisades that are touching each other that are still standing, so if that's not proof that he's competent, I don't know what is”

“Caruso had private firefighters there and water tanks and was very set up to defend it. He defended it successfully.”