Understanding of history and its impact on the world today. To develop an Educational Initiative for young people, students, and adults. She recently led the historical campaign, which raised more than 100 million. Under her directions the New York Historical society has lost groundbreaking exhibitions. In recent years she has been honored with the woman of distinction metal, the deans metal in 2005, education and student advocacy award. And many many other awards we do not have time to read today because we want to hear what she has to say. She also has done research that focus on the creation of the historical narrative. Without further a do, louise mirrer. Thank you for organizing this panel. As some of you may be aware of the New York Historical society has been developing a brandnew center for the study of womens history. So i am very interested today to learn about the work of my fellow panelist and also to hear the views of those of you in the audience. At the New York Historica
Costs, to develop, and the ports property, particularly the historic piers. And there is a high expectation for Public Benefits in these projects, which drive up the cost of the project. The foundation of the water front plan has provided access to the capitol that the port would not have had. And also, a great deal of creativity from the private sector that comes through the public, private partnership, at the staff level we have worked to add Public Financing to the equation, to help to address some of these high costs. It did not address, the unique opportunities, the 34th americas cup and the exploretorium and these are the kinds of projects that present themselves that really the cities pursue, if they have become available and, so you cant hold the same kind of predevelopment planning process, and Competitive Bidding process for the opportunities, like this. And so, the water front plan does not articulate it, and a process. And in each case, when these projects have presented th
Projects have presented themselves, the port staff and the city staff have worked to develop a public process, like that, articulated in the water front land use plan. And sometimes, it has been wildly successful. And such as at t ballpark that draws 4 million visitors a year and the explore torium is already drawing 1. 2 million visitors and drawing the kids down to the water front that meets that sort of diversity of people and activities and the goal in the water front plan, and the americas cup, was great success. And the port staff, and delivered, some 32 Million Dollars, of improvements to the water front. And we saw, a million visitors in 2012, and 2013, and it help us to expedite the cruise terminal project, and the wharf project and the pier, 43, and the other projects have not been. As successful. The warriors project, and it drew a lot of controversy, the people wanted to talk about the other locations, not on the port property. And the americas cup initially envisioned the
Project and the pier, 43, and the other projects have not been. As successful. The warriors project, and it drew a lot of controversy, the people wanted to talk about the other locations, not on the port property. And the americas cup initially envisioned the Long Term Development rights which did not come to pass. And there was a proposal for the International Museum of women at pier 26 which was a soul source authorization for the board of supervisors and so the report tries to take stock of the unique opportunities that did not go forward. And draw lessons learned, for the public, to think about as well as the Port Commission, and when we have done the same with the Development Projects that did not go for ward. All of who are implementing the projects port wide and, the ports engineering division, rebuilds the two piers before two major fires and pier 48, and pier, 29, and both of those were about 15 Million Dollar projects and the pier, 29 project has rebuilt from the original pla
And there have been, however, difficulties with the development in the north east water front that is chronicled in this report. And we had the Hotel Project that went through the long process, almost got to the finish line but, for the lack of public consensus on the design. And that process failed, and there was also a high profile, proposal for piers 27 to 31 by the Mills Development corporation, and that again, was a mixed use, recreation project and had too much retail and did not achieve the kind of public consensus needed to get through the public process and so on that basis, we see that there are really still some work to do, with our relations with the community, and that will come forth and our recommendations for fostering those further conversations. And in the Ferry Building area, i think that this building reflects all of the accomplishments and the success of how the Ferry Building has now become again the civic heart of the port and an iconic piece of San Francisco. I