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Hon. Commissioners director forbes and port seven thank you for allowing me the opportunity to tell you about pier 39 birthday celebration. In the late 1970s savvy San Francisco businessman Warren Simmons dreams of building an urban park along the citys underdeveloped waterfront. October 4, 1978 simmons dream became a reality. When he transformed his dilapidated cargo pier into pier 39 and eclectic collection of Specialty Shops restaurants and attractions. The First Public Private Partnership project built along the embarcadero since world war ii pier 30 on pave the way for future development on alongside the bait. In the beginning the property was built in controversy and various legal battles. After opening to the public it was evident that tenant sales were much lower than anticipated. Due to these issues and only three years after opening to the public pier 30 or so to warren souths forte was to take undervalued and underperforming Retail Properties and bring them to their full pot
Report good afternoon members of the commission. Members of the public and port simon lake forbes or director. The first item is to congratulate pier 30 on august 30 ninth birthday. It was october of 1978 that pier 39 opened on schedule i here to here in San Francisco. At its opening pier 39 had 50 stores, 23 restaurants, a diving pool and street performers. Today it is a twolevel open air festival marketplace which owes 60 Specialty Retail shops 20 attractions 14 restaurants including the rock cafe and bubblegum shrimp cold pier 30 on offers breathtaking views of the bait out because Golden Gate Bay bridge and the 300 berth marina and live daily entertainment. One in three visitors to San Francisco goes to pier 39. Today we have kept the paper here. Shes the Senior Vice President of marketing for pier 39 and shes come here to talk to us about the yearlong celebration that pier 39 is kicking off an Senior Vice President she is responsible for the continued development and implementatio
Assistance in broadcasting this committee meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcement s please silence all cell phones and electron devices. Thank you. Madam clerk, could you call item 1 please. Item 1 resolution endorsing the conceptual term sheets wen of between the port and jppf op acquisitions, llc. Well begin with our presentation. Were going to let supervisor peskin make a few remarks. Thank you chair cohen and colleagues and pier 29 and much of the northeast waterfront is in the supervisorial district i have the honor of representing, district 3. By way of background in 1990, a little while ago, the voters of San Francisco passed proposition h, requiring the acquisition of waterfront plan and put an interim moratorium on waterfront property, and the plan was finished in 1997 after a collaborative process. And that waterfront Land Use Plan is now in the process of being updated. You may all recall that about 15, 16 years ago, there was a proposal for about 500,000 square f
San Francisco Open government. In december this Ethics Commission held a hearing in the referral by the sunshine ordnance task force in ray heart commissioner hayon has exhibited could have recused herself in the matter rather than a fair hearing as the good golf o government guides we this facts and law commissioners hayons statements state their prejudice in part quote the issue of disclosure by the library quote unquote the belief this is something amiss with the friends and quote individuals that use this measure of requesting is a form of harassment end quote none of the issue issues had my bearing on the case before the commission that is a clearcut case and 9 to nothing by the task force and supervisor mondejar was the sublth of an i dr dragged it out for a year and two months one member of the Ethics Commission made a deal about the wasting time and energy and money but they always seem to ignore the fact it is not the person requesting the documents as wasting all the time and