“The tough part about the pandemic is that the challenge it brings—and how to deal with it—is not written in any leadership handbook. But by-and-large, our industry has behaved and reacted very well,” Martin says. “However, our business climate here has not returned to an acceptable level yet. Construction spending is down 40% to 45%. That downturn was already in the making going into last year. We were going to experience a decline no matter what happened because nobody was planning to launch another billion-dollar job in the city.”