In talking about her plans for 2008, Sisson said: "We want afive-year plan, a long-term capital plan, a five-year technologyplan. We need some sense of where we're going longer than one year[at a time]."

For Gruel, the "biggest priority is a transit plan" that canconnect the area's various submarkets. "Currently, there is noplan, no vision" for transit in place, added Gruel, who held anexecutive spot with DreamWorks SKG before entering the publicarena.

Perry, who has long been a champion builder of communities inLos Angeles, said the work is not yet done. "We need to make alinkage of Downtown to the rest of Los Angeles," she noted. Theparticipants did not delve into specifics for their plans, but saidthey are working to get them in place for the coming year.

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