On Sept. 27, 2007, two weeks after the city of Colorado Springs approached local developers to gauge their interest in providing new offices and other facilities for the U.S. Olympic Committee, Mayor Lionel Rivera convened a meeting with Vice Mayor Larry Small, two representatives of the newly formed Downtown Development Authority and LandCo Equity Partners Chairman Ray Marshall and LandCo President Jim Brodie.

The purpose of the meeting, according to DDA Board Chairman Nolan Schriner and who today confirmed those in attendance, was to discuss the authority's coolness to LandCo's plan to build a skybridge over Colorado Avenue and link it from a city parking garage to a new office building LandCo was developing downtown. LandCo had approached the DDA two months earlier to ask the governmental entity whether it could help fund a portion of the building LandCo had proposed.