Lewis lease so gene in the last year of his life his life is in decline making sure so struck much or up a relationship with gene and making sure so wanted to go see gene and visit with him he asked me it was his schedule he wanted to do it during the lunchtime within an hour so he asked me to drive him so he could spend time with gene salty had the opportunity to visit with gene probably a halfdozen times and learned a lot from gene and the sight and the Shipyard Operation and why it come out to be what it is and great History Lesson that helped me better do any job at the port that is this level of relationships that making sure so has an uncanny ability to develop i most respect and not going to say ill miss well cross paths again but thank you very much muir so clapping . Any further Public Comment and commissioners if i may i want to add. Have get to come to the podium laughter . I just wanted to add my thanks and love and kudos to making sure so for all hes done and making sure t
Remedies to our employees and many include mom and pop shops. Our main Public Transportation source is difficult during commute hours and make it difficult to attract and retain employees. In addition traffic is increasingly and concerned. Between 3050 of the visitors drive to the warf visit and create the 100 retailers at the pier. Pier 39 works with staff to develop the plaza. Pedestrian traffic patterns have evolved over the last 36 years along with bicycle use along embarcadero. At pier 41, the lease expires soon and we are working with staff to propose a brand new world class meritime terminal with water and access to the public to provide educational access on the bay for local School Children and limited ancillary retail. The new facility will allow us to better serve the water emergency transportation vessels that operated by and use pier 41 everyday as their home port. This new service will allow better improvement in the future. Thank you for your time. I would be happy to an
Occupancy rate in 2014 was 97 and expected to be 94 in 2015. Pier 39 conducted Visitor Research every two 2 years and the most recent Research Conducted in 2014. You can see the most recent findings here. Interestingly the port of visitors have been great. The percentage of the visitors using the internet has increasedover the last 5 years. The mode of arrival has varied over time with automobile use ranging from 33 and 50 of visitors. 96 of customers were satisfied or very satisfied with their visit to pier 39. Pier 39 operates with the bay and continues to grow. Pier 39 holds dozens of events and with complete week in october and Tree Lighting in november. These events bring an additional half million visitors each year. Pier 39 recognizes the unique asset to control and manage and committed to keeping the property fresh and first time visitors and the others are repeat visitors and creating an enticing environment. Pier 39 began its program for its operating expenses. Weve eliminate
To come into pier 39 . Yes. The water taxi is a tenant in our marina. He docks the boat all day and drops people off all day long. The answer is yes. Is the restaurant still there . No. I built that restaurant 1978. Wow. Thats a new bit of history. Yeah, for sure. Thank you, tyler for that presentation. Its good to get update on whats happening in pier 39. I remember when we first visited. It was a major attraction in the 80s and when it opened in 1978 and certainly my children have enjoyed it. I havent about there in a while, but i think its a Great Attraction and the first thing that people think of as far as fisherman. Warf. When troy was up with his presentation i guess we have to keep really pushing forward with the rest of the relevant departments and agencies of the city to figure out what we can do with traffic and also to help both those who work on the water front as well as the sros to the water front because i think thats one of the issues. It will be some out of the box th
Dolphin and Swimming Club commissioner, i think we would all love to see some type of resolution, favorable with peer 31andahalf. As bill pointed out, we have been operating for 130 year140 years we have boats as old as 1880 we have a fleet of well over 18 historic boats on the bay. We have 250 boats using every day. Boats go out every day, a particular note with the way our boat traffic comes close to fort mason is during the time of the third nesting season march 13thjuly 31st on Alcatraz Island we have a 30 foot avoidance zone for the bird act were going up to the i will not go into hydro dynamics but were interfering, with the fishermans lines with the piers, in order avoid the current. It would be the reason i bring this up is the ier in studying fort mason site says there is no Recreational Use of the bay right outside of fort mason. This is obviously not true. I would like to encourage the board to renew the lease i think you guys are doing great work hammering it out, stick in