recreation, commercial, industrial development, and housing.A vision for our future will ensure that all planned uses are supported and successful.”Thanking others for their cooperation Bigham then turned the microphone over toCongresswoman Angie Craig.“I love the smell of economic growth in the morning,” Craig said. “That is my favoritesmell.” Thanking Renewal by Anderson for hosting the gathering along with MayorBailey and Bigham. “I spent over two decades in the private sector before I ran forCongress and my observation is that these types of investments in public sectorinfrastructure almost always lead to private sector investment as well.”Making request in Congress for an additional $3 million dollars to help redesign theinterchanges on Jamaica and Keats Avenue as well as Highway 61, Craig said that theplanned arterial would lead to bike and recreational trails as well.“I am so excited about these plans that you are developing in your local communitiesand I will continue to support those projects,” she said. Then acknowledging that, “this might be the most public lobbying exercise a city has ever gone through to advocate for funding for its project,” Craig said, “you had me at hello, Mr. Mayor. This is exactly the kind of project that I and the federal government are ecstatic to support.”Promising to continue working to secure tax money for her constituents, Craig then turned things back over to Commissioner Bigham, who made an observation of herown.“All about jobs right there,” Bigham said as traffic passed by in the background. “That noise is all about jobs.”More on the arterial study and its details can be found atwww.co.washington.mn.us/SWArterialStudy.