Good morning. My name is Jennifer Hall and my husband and i are opening a wine bar, located on the ground floor of 1 polk, we are thrilled to open in a revitalization of district six. We want to be given the chance to be successful and here to request that you consider our business for a full 42 license. Drew and i have lived in San Francisco since 2005 and currently we reside in supervisor mars lovely district and our 11monthold daughter, and we both grew up in Small Businesses. My grand parents owned a store, and my great grandfather started a business in china town and actually the first in the china town to have a car. I worked in my aunt and uncles grocery store, earning a if you coins as a daily wage, that is where i learned the importance of Customer Service and the value of hard work. Drew group up with similar values. His strength in project management, and he has also been known to insist on being in the field, whether installing bike racks. He has been on dozens of projects
Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. We want to thank the members of the public who are at the hearing today and who are watching. Mr. Clerk, if you could please call item number 1. The hearing to consider the issuance of a type 42 on sale beer and wine license to andrew and Jennifer Hall for the beer haul located at 1 polk street. We have the first item is a Liquor License request. So if we could first hear from the applicant on this item . Just to note that we had been joined by supervisor scott weiner. Good morning. Good morning. My name is Jennifer Hall and my husband and i are opening a wine bar, located on the ground floor of 1 polk, we are thrilled to open in a revitalization of district six. We want to be given the chance to be successful and here to request that you consider our business for a full 42 license. Drew and i have lived in San Francisco since 2005 and currently we reside in supervisor mars lovely district and our 11monthold daug
Hotel companies that go into emerging neighborhoods and reuse buildings that are in the neighborhood and create businesses in an emerging neighborhoods. And i can tell you that a business like the beer hall, that not only is a wine and a beer bar, in addition to an offsight, or selling beer and wine, to go, it will be a huge benefit to this neighborhood. It will have a i believe a snow ball effect of other businesses coming to this area and satisfying the current residents and employees in the neighborhood. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please . Hi. Name is natalia, i am opening a new business and i am waiting for the new zoning to go through. And i am met them at somba and i am very excited about the beer hall, they are great, they are going to be great colleagues. I am also a huge beer fan. I am in the restaurant scene in San Francisco and i am planning on opening up a restaurant, and Boutique Hotel in western soma and the craft beer scene that is exploding for the past five yea
With the applicant and that is why i encourage that we continue this so that we can have that open discussion on the offsale condition. Thank you. Im now going to open it up for public comment. Just to note, normally, i give the maximum number of minutes allowed which is three minutes. But i do worry about losing a quorum in this case and i know that we have a number of people who would like to speak, so i am going to limit each comment to two minutes. So let me read the names and if you can please line up as i call your name and the middle aisle and anyone who would like to speak is free to also come up. Julie bernel, natalia bushayer. Henry, carneloist k aman do johnson, je. Na pell. Adam hall. inaudible please come on up. Push please come on up to the microphone and that one. My name is Julie Pernell and i am a San Francisco resident and i am supporting the halls in their Business Operation at 1 polk street. I am a richmond resident and the halls are my down stairs neighbors and so
Open at night and you would leave there at 7 00 at night and you were just walking and it was pretty creepy and the businesses that have gone in there, it starting to make all of the difference in the world and so, i think that it is in everyones interest for this business to succeed and, for people to be going in and out of there at night, you know, if they are going to get a 6pack of beer and whatever it is and to encourage that level of activity. I wholly agree with you, what i am saying is that there are other businesses that are type 42 that do have off sale that can bring what i would like for that and i think that it would be in everybodys best interest to continue this, that my office as well as the applicant to get together and have a more informed discussion and we can go through if need be, we can have some input from the community, because i think that in general that would be where we would be interested to hear what the community has to say about the offsale portion of it