And so when an outside investor looks at where they're going to invest, what does that say to them?

Well, it says, you know, a lot of real estate is comps and you have to look at comps and you have to figure out what the comparable value of certain properties around from where your investment might be.

What's that comp around there? And right now they're down in the, it's just like cratered.

So it doesn't work out very well on paper.

You can say we have hopes.

We have dreams.

You can say that we are doing a lot of things like the downtown partnership.

I don't know if that's part of the vision of this plan, of the Harbor Place redevelopment plan.

If this is where we're headed, is there any way to buffer this? What sorts of things can people do to help, uh, ease the pain?

Well, there's a lot, uh, that's going on.

It's multilayered.

A lot of people are cutting back on their trips, or they're merging.

If I have to go to the grocery store, I'm gonna go and pick up the dry cleaning at the same time.

So they're merging trips.

There's also a lot of, um, discussion and a lot of practice to try to use bonus points that you can get on your grocery card to try to take off some money at the pump.

But again, uh, Baltimore being in this geographic place in between DC and Philadelphia and New York and some larger cities up and down there, um, are we impacted more by higher gas prices compared to some of those larger cities?