"Downtown was a ghost town, nobody was around, and [the project manager] comes to me and asks, 'We can probably work on this thing day and night and open ahead of schedule; is that something you'd want us to do?' " Stevens remembered. "Of course, I said yes. And we did it. We were able to open two months earlier than planned, get the cash flow going, and work out kinks in the operation. All in the middle of a pandemic."