[speaking nonenglish language] [speaking nonenglish language] [speaking nonenglish language] thank you. Could you tell us how many people are still missing . Sandra you have finally been given an official update, speaking on this partial Building Collapse. Ron desantis singh moments ago we still have hope to be able to identify additional survivals. John, stating that the crew there are in Search And Rescue mode. They are doing everything they can in this moment to save lives. They are not going to rest until they do, describing a shift change that just happened as they try to identify what are still labeled as 51 missing people, one person still confirmed up your notes updates to that number at this time. And that is the update we have received. I am sandra smith here in new york. And this is America Reports. John i am john roberts. The mayor saying this was an incredible unimaginable situation, the fact that this building just came down in the middle of the night. 1 30 in the morning
Matcha n more and a Small Business as much as shake shack or the lakers are a Small Business. They are a franchise business coming from new york city, trying to further gentrify the mission with gold leaf ice cream. This is not about competition or Small Business but rather what we should allow a community to be misled by opportunistic young men. You should do the right thing and have them submit honest paperwork so the city can actually understand whats going into our small area. Operator you have 16 questions remaining. Good evening. I am amy lu. I was born and raised in San Francisco and live in the portola district currently. I work for a company that supports Small Businesses. I support matcha n more and request that the commissions deny discretionary review and approve the application. Matcha n more is unique and a delicious dessert store. We should support Small Businesses in a pandemic like this and in a present time like this. Thank you for your time. Operator you have 15 ques
Cream. This is not about competition or Small Business but rather what we should allow a community to be misled by opportunistic young men. You should do the right thing and have them submit honest paperwork so the city can actually understand whats going into our small area. Operator you have 16 questions remaining. Good evening. I am amy lu. I was born and raised in San Francisco and live in the portola district currently. I work for a company that supports Small Businesses. I support matcha n more and request that the commissions deny discretionary review and approve the application. Matcha n more is unique and a delicious dessert store. We should support Small Businesses in a pandemic like this and in a present time like this. Thank you for your time. Operator you have 15 questions remaining. Hi. My name is shane. Im a Business Owner in San Francisco. Im calling in support of matcha n more in support of having their application approved so they can dcontinue to open their business.
And i want to tell you that what were seeing right now is not a cycle change. Its a structural change, and i am sure you are aware and seen the retailers and the retailers are shrinking the footprint and it is not the Large Department stores but even tenants that used to be 5,000 feet are shrinking to 1,000 feet and trying to deal with how to market the goods online and cross market both aspects. It has had a very structural change and quite frankly t vacancy rate at union square is the lowest that i have seen in 25 excuse me t highest in 25 years of business in union square. This there is, as we all know, a lot of vacancies that are happening. Barneys is going to close, forever 21 is closing, Williams Sonoma and the multifloor retailers are going out of business and those are the only ones that can occupy the upper floors. They are just not there. We have been marketing 146 geary for four years and talking to tenants initially to take the entire building because that works the best fo
From 220 post. The likelihood that a Retail Business would want a stand alone third Floor Office Space that is accessible from an alley that provides minimal foot traffic, marginal street visibility and has some Security Issues is in our opinion simply less than minuscule. On the overhead, i want to post one more image which is looking at the alley from grant street and if you see the orange box, that is where the third floor business is. Pretty tough to see. Pretty unvisible. So with all that said, nothing prevents the third floor and the upper floors being turned back into retail if at some future point that becomes viable. Project does not include any physical changes that would preclude that, so i am going to let the project sponsor speak about the actual efforts to lease this building, but before i go, in your packet, you have support letters that collectively include 41 signatures in support of the project including a leter from members of the Street Building at 210 post which in