"They'll pave the roads when they finish all the building," a cab driver tells us as we bump our way out of Castries, the main city.
If the city does not buy the G2 site, Union Pacific will "sell it to some God-awful industry, they'll pave it over and that'll be it," said Joe Edmiston, executive director of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
That, they hope, will pave the way to an internationally-backed recovery.
Planning permission was granted on Wednesday to house a 200ft high wind monitoring mast on the site, a move that they fear will pave the way for future approval of the turbines.
They hope it will pave the way for a single-treatment cure for many types of inherited blindness, including retinitis pigmentosa.
If they say yes, it will pave the way to a new form of governance that will be the most federal and decentralised in the Middle East, establish a fair set of rights and values, and, with luck, provide for a better life for all Iraqis.
"To be young, brown, and woke...THIS is our future, they are the ones who will pave the way," explains the 30-year-old Nicaraguan, who lives in Miami.
He expects that the center, which they hope to open in August, will pave the way for others.
"Hopefully, it will pave the way for other actors.
"Hopefully we will pave the way for creating national demand".
