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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 city s 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 south s forte was to take undervalued and underperforming retail properties and bring them to
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 two-level open air festival marketplace which owes 60+ specialty retail shops 20 attractions 14 restaurants including the rock café 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. she s the senior vice president of marketing for pier 39 and she s come here to talk to us about the year-long celebration that pier 39 is kicking off an senior vice president she is responsible for the continued development
for signs of richard matt and david sweat. there was a major development tonight, police say the men left behind a pair of boots in a cabin, they say this could mean at least one of the men is fleeing barefoot. the terrain is rugged and unforgiving, you re going to see it in a moment. swamps and steep cliffs litter the area. also breaking at this hour a source just now telling cnn that joyce mitchell that s the prison employee under arrest for helping sweat, she s confessed to putting hacksaw blades into frozen chunks of ham burger meet. she passed it on to a correction officer who gave it to richard matt and didn t mutt it through a metal detector we ll have much more on this reporting, including the fact that she tried to convince other employees to move the two killers cells so they were side by side. mitchell s husband today speaking out for the first time despite all these reports, his wife says she did not have sex with the two men. did you ask her? she wore on her