15 Quotes by Brian Stebbins

There are cigar bars. This is the first cigarette-focused tobacco lounge we know about.

We're really getting a critical mass in terms of the retail, which will be one of the largest unanchored collections of retail tenants in the country.

We're still looking at the lounge's potential, since that's the introduction method. This is a very new concept for the company and for the industry; we've got a lot more questions to answer.

What we are trying to do here is give the feeling of an intimate European plaza with a lighted fountain, period lampposts and paving that is done with stone. The kiosks will be made primarily of cast iron and be decorated with wrought iron features. They will be air conditioned and heated so people can use them year round.

It is fun for me to see the trees being put in. I hand-picked each of them at a nursery in Georgia and now they are coming home.

It goes above and beyond what a traditional advertising agency can do for you.

We have more people who want to buy them than we will have Brownstones to sell.

We are not under the clean-air ordinance. We are a tobacco retailer. Those provisions do not apply to us.

There are less and less places to enjoy the product, and this plays right into that trend. We're really hoping to capitalize on connoisseurship in the cigarette category. When you look at beer, wine, chocolate and other high-quality products that have a branded experience associated with them that have emerged in the past 10 to 15 years, that hasn't happened in cigarettes.