The mayors offices of the neighborhoods, program which is under oewdn. I think they will have a lot of advice to add. Obviously, they are usually dealing with existing neighborhoods and communities in how they can help those neighborhoods. This is a unique situation where we build up a new neighborhood. There are a lot of important lessons there. From my experience on the private side and also as planner, i think there is a important distinction between destination retail and neighborhoods serving retail. From your presentation it makes sense. The areas highlighted in pink is appropriate. Keep in mind that doesnt mean just because you have a robust destination retail plan that it would serve the local community, and i think that echoes some of the directors comments around focusing on the ground floor retail and the first floor apartment buildings and what we are doing there. That is where the neighborhood serving retail needs to be. I am sure you are aware of this as an asset manager
There is just some requirements ive worked around it a little bit. But i do think that child care would be very important. We do have some onisland services already, but were expecting the island to have a lot more families in the future. And we just want to make sure were not repeating some of the same issues that we have, you know, in the mainland of San Francisco where we have child care wait lists, and the wait lists are 2,000 people. Okay, great. And then lets see. Im also curious you cited examples, like mercy and other existing commercial uses on the island. And ive often wondered about whether or not those existing restaurants, which are great, and i go to them, but i wonder what the proportion of local islanders residing on the island are really using those restaurants and retail versus people who are coming from outside of the island . And just be cognizant i think it would be very important for us to make sure we have retail and restaurants that caters to the island resident
There is just some requirements ive worked around it a little bit. But i do think that child care would be very important. We do have some onisland services already, but were expecting the island to have a lot more families in the future. And we just want to make sure were not repeating some of the same issues that we have, you know, in the mainland of San Francisco where we have child care wait lists, and the wait lists are 2,000 people. Okay, great. And then lets see. Im also curious you cited examples, like mercy and other existing commercial uses on the island. And ive often wondered about whether or not those existing restaurants, which are great, and i go to them, but i wonder what the proportion of local islanders residing on the island are really using those restaurants and retail versus people who are coming from outside of the island . And just be cognizant i think it would be very important for us to make sure we have retail and restaurants that caters to the island resident
There is just some requirements ive worked around it a little bit. But i do think that child care would be very important. We do have some onisland services already, but were expecting the island to have a lot more families in the future. And we just want to make sure were not repeating some of the same issues that we have, you know, in the mainland of San Francisco where we have child care wait lists, and the wait lists are 2,000 people. Okay, great. And then lets see. Im also curious you cited examples, like mercy and other existing commercial uses on the island. And ive often wondered about whether or not those existing restaurants, which are great, and i go to them, but i wonder what the proportion of local islanders residing on the island are really using those restaurants and retail versus people who are coming from outside of the island . And just be cognizant i think it would be very important for us to make sure we have retail and restaurants that caters to the island resident
Subapplication approved this year. We want to make sure there is population builtup on the island in order to make this area a success. That leads to a schedule question. When is this coming online . Most of that is in the third subphase that was approved. We are in permitting. We will Start Construction next year. When you map this out because of the length of the geotech any cal program we are not until 2025 at earliest. We have time until we talk to potential tenants. Now is the time for that conversation to see if any adjustments in the plan are warranted. We have a retail plan for the whole island. We are maybe a quarter built out, then transitioning. We want to think about in earnest what is going to be there day one. We have a check ken and egg problem chicken and egg problem. This will be well before traditional retail is viable. We are working on strategies along those lines. Our solution to this challenge, this is phase zero, what will be there day one when the first resident