I guess I have a bit of a different perspective...
1) I am totally fine with a 2 year build out, even if that 2 year timeframe
starts when the first phase is open. The economy sucks and opening it up all at once and having empty stores does nothing for me (or Elliott). I would be totally fine with an awesome center in 2-3 years. Especially since we'll get our feet wet with Phase 1 this fall.
2) I live in Folsom, not Roseville. I hate the trek over there to the Galleria and Fountains. Even if Palladio is NOT better per se, I don't care. It's in my backyard, so that
COULD make it better to me. Again, Palladio is our community, Galleria and Fountains mean less to me because that's Roseville.
I still have lots of problems with this...
1) Basically, it could be 2 years before we see this thing completed...seems like it keeps getting later and later, I know Elliott said Fall of this year not that long ago.
2) After seeing what the Galleria and Fountains have together, I don't see Palladio stopping me from making that trek where I can get it all in one place. The Galleria keeps opening up stores weekly and I heard that the Fountains is already working on a 2nd phase. Hopefully we'll at least see this done before the 2nd phase of the Fountains as both of those projects got built and we're still waiting for this which has been planned for much longer than both of those.