The meeting accepted and want to announce two new members one is here i dont know the second Stephanie Greenberg as left the working group and replaced by our peer you want to say a few words so we know what youre interests are. I was on the Advisory Team for open space and sidestepped this role san franciscan nature third 0 generation my first job out of college was working with chris martin at the cannery and the first waterfront plan . Ironic many years alert later a bay swimmer on the docks and the club ive scam the waterfront from at t park to other places. Youre very welcome and thank you weve affiliation lost frank and his replacement is trio campbell i dont know if trio is here hes not and perhaps if he arrives your let me know thank you. A couple of what are you doing here a couple of quick anonymous before the subtlety matter . The last of the phase one i want to express any prediction to the cochair and the members of the working group and others for being patient and courte
And we were required to look at a 5year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the citys effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. And so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. Verses what we enjoy today. And starting from Fishermans Wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for americas cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really bl
Seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. Here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the Interactive Science Museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. Pier one, we are all familiar with the ports headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. So, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side Conference Rooms get used for very public meetings. Next door, piers 1 and a half, i dont know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basi
Very public meetings. Next door, piers 1 and a half, i dont know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the piers one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by San Francisco water front partners. And then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. There were two prao ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned are on their way there. And the removal of those piers was part of an arrangement that the Port Commission and the bcds Commission Set up to be able to focus the major public improvements for the Public Open Space and fill removal in exchange for being able to do the variety of land uses that we now see in the developments today. And then moving south into the southern water front, i think that the herins head park and the various layers of improvements that have taken shape down there. And for
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