"I do though, often ponder the situation of NOT being successful in their bid for FWR, and then a subsequent wrapup of SPQ/KWG. Imagine what a consolidated group of these properties could demand as opposed to the piecemeal way they were acquired."

And that's how it was supposed to happen... at least in the minds of the long standing investors. Perhaps our leaders lacked the vision to envision what was going to happen and lacked the experience....but not the ego, in spite of their age, to play against the money men who, like a pack of wolves, knew how to play the game against the fragmented taking down prey one at a time. They couldn't see what they needed to do to have their cake and eat it too. Problem is there was no golden chute for Joe investor.