Than ever before, i feel a good shop would bring good traffic, a good retail shop would bring more people along the corridor for better business. I want to say we need more quality shops there on lombard street, particularly on this west end of the corridor and i think pet food express is going to bring that quality. Thank you. Come on up, let me call a few more names. calling speaker names . Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is charles vain, i own judys cafe on chest nut street for the last 31 year, im also the vicepresident for the lombard Business Merchants Association. The lombard Business Merchants Association has been opened up, has been trying to help clean up this street, trying to help deal with 2 vacancies and the thing that is are taking place with miscellaneous crimes and thing that is are on the street. Things are starting to move in a positive direction. Theres a condo project thats coming across from pet food express which i think is a big positive for the street. I
Go ahead, maam. Hi, my name is patricia wave and ive lived in San Francisco for 30 years. I dont believe that pet food express is a good fit for the Marina District. We already have enough mom and pop stores to take care of our needs as we did four years ago. San francisco is a World Class Tourist Destination and when they visit our beautiful city, they want to shop in a unique, eclectic stores with merchandise thats fitting. I just feel that any shop that would pay rent on a blighted store for four years and kind of hide behind that, im not aware of politics or anything as far as an activist, but when i heard that, i just they could have used that money, i do not know how much the rent is per month, but four years, that money could have been well spent in other ways such as their adoption and such as their helping out the community. I never heard anything in all the years of them renting this as being a benefit to the Marina District and this really upsets me. Thank you for allowing m
Express is a good fit for the Marina District. We already have enough mom and pop stores to take care of our needs as we did four years ago. San francisco is a World Class Tourist Destination and when they visit our beautiful city, they want to shop in a unique, eclectic stores with merchandise thats fitting. I just feel that any shop that would pay rent on a blighted store for four years and kind of hide behind that, im not aware of politics or anything as far as an activist, but when i heard that, i just they could have used that money, i do not know how much the rent is per month, but four years, that money could have been well spent in other ways such as their adoption and such as their helping out the community. I never heard anything in all the years of them renting this as being a benefit to the Marina District and this really upsets me. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is sharon hefsky and i have lived in the marina fo
Hi, my name is patricia wave and ive lived in San Francisco for 30 years. I dont believe that pet food express is a good fit for the Marina District. We already have enough mom and pop stores to take care of our needs as we did four years ago. San francisco is a World Class Tourist Destination and when they visit our beautiful city, they want to shop in a unique, eclectic stores with merchandise thats fitting. I just feel that any shop that would pay rent on a blighted store for four years and kind of hide behind that, im not aware of politics or anything as far as an activist, but when i heard that, i just they could have used that money, i do not know how much the rent is per month, but four years, that money could have been well spent in other ways such as their adoption and such as their helping out the community. I never heard anything in all the years of them renting this as being a benefit to the Marina District and this really upsets me. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Than
S, 40 year resident, i have a fair amount of experience now in doing assessments on things like the relationships of formula retail use. Two Small Business in close proximity, i just finished 400 hours on lombard street and i conducted 234 discussions with business and Property Owners and as some of you know, i do that very well, it takes me a long time. Along with that, i did 13 hours of Traffic Studies on lombard and i found 2600 cars per hour plus going by every hour and i went down to chest nut or to webster and buchanan and the other side streets out there all the way to divisadero and see how many cars went in there and turned left on chest nut, none, 2 , 3 maybe maximum. Now, back in june of last year, in june, 2012, i set out on my own without compensation on my own to explore the lombard corridor and find out what i could about the problems that it had, do some findings and get my own assessments from a sampling of about 17 bids owners, that ended up 234 and 400 hours by the t