For Mr. Will, it is also a chance to bring a new kind of business to a region badly in need of economic development.

Of course, father, you will know best, but perhaps we should do better to leave Mr. Will's house for the present.

Mr. Will wrote that the Mayor had not noticed the signs before.

"Just think of what a hurricane would do," Mr. Will said.

What Mr. Will could not foresee - and who did?

Mr. Will, currently president and chief operating officer, will keep the president's title.

Friends said that Mr. Will was haunted by violence he witnessed there.

Mr. Will and three others died in the violence that day.

The day Mr. Will died was a critical turning point in the five-month-old conflict.

"A lot of hard work and love went into that place," Mr. Will said.