residents and argenta is considered one of the best communities in the area as well as san francisco. we are a huge support of the beer hall, we recently held a residential meet and greet on tuesday and we had the largest turn out of our residents that we have ever had in any of the resident events and there was a huge support with all of the prospects that i meet outside, and the revitalization of having this here is a tremendous growth for the civic center area and one of the new developments of nema and all of the other communities it will be a positive community place for all of them. so we really support the beer hall and hope that you will do as well. >> thank you. >> i am in support of the beer

hall and i have known the family and we have worked together on several construction sites in the city and the last one was for a special needs people on polk and octavia. and i am all for this beer hall and i am all for the take out, because i have been to a couple of them in the city and i know that people go in and have a good time and they want to take something home that they have enjoyed. and i know that it is the success of the business is really hindging on that with the investment that they have to put into it and i want to thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is eric white and i previously lived in and worked in the area for several years, i want to express my strong support for opening the beer hall with a full license, the neighborhood bar and store such as this and we had great asset which has been neglected. small businesses such as this is just what the neighborhood

needs to continue the exciting revitalization under way. when i worked here, the co-workers and i would go out for drinks and we would usually be forced to go to downtown and upper market area to find a bar that is comfortable, safe and inviting and serves comfortable products, it would give us a place in the neighborhood and feel good about supporting a local small business in my community. you can compare the beer hall selling craft beer to a liquor store pedaling liquor and i think that it is not to mention unfair, this is a sophisticated establishments where you can purchase all kinds of craft beers at wine. there are no stores like this and i urge you to allow them to have a license. i have known them for 20 years and they put all of their heart and soul and not to mention the financial resources into the beer hall and i think that they have deserve the opportunity to make it successful for themselves and community.

>> next speaker. >> thank you,. >> hello, i live in san francisco and i walk through this particular neighborhood on the way to and from work. seeing the recent development and revitalization efforts is a welcome site as this area is often and as many of the others have mentioned as seen as fair share of neglect over the years. i believe that introducing new small businesses into this area will help to expedite the process of improvement and in the positive growth that is now occurring. i am here to soundly express my support for the opening of the beer hall not only will it be an asset to the community as it will serve to fulfill the need for the businesses and also be an asset to the people who live or work in this area and will encourage the people to visit the neighborhood as well. i understand that the fear and hesitation of opening a business that serves and sells alcohol in this neighborhood. i worked for a non-profit organization just a few blocks away that serves many of the

economy disadvantaged and challenged people that reside in this area, the concern is valid. >> however, this is not a place of business that will cater to that previously mentioned fear, i believe that the neighborhood will benefit from the beer hall being given the full 42 license, it will be directing the especially niche business to people such as myself, hard working folks who desire a convenient place to meet with friends, business partners and co-workers. i place of business that on the only offers the ability to commune with others and relax, but also a place that enables people to purchase specialty craft beer and wine for home consumption. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> i am a co-founder of the tech start up in the area. and i am here to you know, express my strong support for the beer hall. and i can also say that i have

known jen and drew for a very long time. and in fact, i owe them for meeting my wife and so i feel like, this is not just a business this is a passion for him. they have poured their heart and soul into this business. it is only going to provide the economic stimulus to an area that clearly needs it. currently, our company culture and the business that i worked in is very tight. and we go out for drinks a lot and unfortunately, where our office is, we either have to go up market or down market. there is not a lot of places in the area that we feel comfortable and safe going and i think that the beer hall will be an essential part of the revitalization of this area and i hope that you will consider this and firmly support it. >> thank you >> and let me read a few more names. >> brian johnson and brian forester who just spoke, and

anastasia, macocos? >> and veatuam and lean. leda. >> next speaker please. >> thank you, for this opportunity. my name is kelley, adelacon i work with first republic bank and so i am in the group and so i handle the lending needs of many businesses here in san francisco and so i understand, finance what it takes to be successful. for a small business. the business cash flows, and etc.. and i definitely believe that the ability to purchase beer from the beer hall and carry it off-sight is going to be very critical to the success of the beer hall a very important secondary revenue stream. i have also known jen and drew for over seven years and i know them to be of the highest character and they will work very hard for this. thank you. >> thank you.

>> next speaker. >> my name is jim and i am here to show my support for the beer hall and i have been following the craft beer scene for quite iwhile now and so when they told me about the plans to open the beer hall i was excited. i knew that they were going to be filling the need of offering the local craft beers to the growing number of new and discerning craft beer drinkers and offering the beers that the typical bar or store does not offer. the last couple of years i have watched them tirelessly as they worked on this project and how excited they are to be a part of the neighborhood revitalization effort. the excitement has made this to me and see it come to fruition, as it has exploded over the recent years, and so has the need for a knowledgeable place, where you can learn and taste and importantly take home your craft beer to take home the beer into the comfort of your

own home. >> and finally i have known drew my whole life and you will be hard pressed to find a better guy and he is fair and honest and he has shown strong character and integrity and everything that he does done in life. i am sure that the way that he treats his customers will be no different. >> thanks. >> thanks, next speaker? >> good morning, my name is alex, i don't know andrew and jen once i heard that they were opening a beer hall in the area i was definitely supportive about it because i worked at fox plaza doing the leasing and the first thing is that the people ask what is around and there is nothing around, i think that with the beer hall down stairs, it would be great for the neighborhood everybody always talks about their revitalization of that area, and market street and you can't really just do it based on building new apartments and housing around, you also have to build, businesses and the type of people that are living in new condos and apartments, are really not going to be okay with going to a liquor store or

a grocery store they like these kinds of things with craft beer and wines. >> next speaker. we have been joined by district six supervisor. >> leann letta and i am the leasing agent at the apartments. as they noted we did have a really great event the other night. we had over 60 residents in support, they are constantly asking me, when is the beer hall going to open? they are excited to be able to stop by after work it is not an easy sale that this is an up and coming neighborhood, i think that once this business comes in it will just start a chain reaction and i am really excited to see what is going to happen. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> i am running (inaudible) and i have been living in san francisco for 7 years. i am here to support an idea of business which i think will bring some positive energy to

an area of market that needs a serious face lift. i have known jen and drew for two years and i know how knowledgeable they are about beer, and how good they are to share the passion and enthusiasm. and this is why i think that the business has to be supported. because it is going to bring some vibrant energy to the market. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> my name is nasad and i grew up with andrew and we went to college together where he and jen met. i cannot agree more with the points that have been made and i want to make additional points and i know that since november, they have been trying to contact the police department in regards to their objection to the off-sale of the beer and wine. so i believe that this gentleman may be out of the loop on that one and the space that they are into at the bottom ground floor is a vacant space. there will be the first tenants in there so before the argenta

went up, which is a tall business, maybe there was a business there, six or seven or eight years ago, i am not sure how long it was. but may have had something to do with the incidents that he is referring to. but i am in support of the beer hall and i hope that you guys are too. >> thanks. >> next speaker. >> my mame is veat weni and i am a senior finance adviser and own two vietnamese restaurants and trying to open a third one here in san francisco and i am strongly support the idea of to the beer hall and once in a while you hear the ideas say wow, san francisco, you open up to plenty of different ideas and something different and in this area, you know, i want to try to take the clients out or meet my fiance down the street there is nowhere to go besides prime ribs or... there is no place to go. and we just want a place to go and just have a beer and if you

allow the beer we want to buy something to take home that is the idea that i have not really seen anywhere and i am in strong support and there is no better people that more dedication than jen and andrew. and they worked so hard and they pour their heart and soul into it and i hope that you open up to allow them to get this, you know, to be part of the community and for safety purpose, i am very familiar with that, that is when i opened my restaurant, in the san francisco downtown san francisco, the business that was not much going on and we came in and now, everybody know that the area and everybody ought to come and people from all over the places come and eat in my restaurant and we try to open a third one in san francisco. so, trying to bring the business in and trying to improve the area,... will make it better and not than just get things worse. i hope that you provide support for jen and andrew.

thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker. >> good morning, aran poplar, revitalization seems to be the theme of the morning and i am going to speak on that as well as someone who has gone to school in the neighborhood and subsequently worked here and it is always been about doing my thing during the day and leaving and going elsewhere to meet up with colleagues or classmates and i think that the beer hall would really fill a niche that is missing at this time and as a supervisor, pointed out, you know, this model has worked to revitalize other areas and the beer hall is unique and in that it is a gathering place, and also, a place where you can get education, about what you are drinking and i think that that is why the off-sale liquor license is important so you taste something that you like and you can take it with you, also, maybe you don't have time to sit down, you can take something home, and enjoy it

later. so it brings that add ad business to the neighborhood as well. to speak on andrew and jen, you know for them, as they said is the family business. business is like this succeed if there is a reciprocal relationship of respect between the owners and the neighborhood. and i know that they will bring that to this neighborhood and to how they run their business. so, i strongly encourage you to support the beer hall. >> thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. >> next speaker? >> jim woods. survey (inaudible) it is a small brew pub at 18th and church. i have known jen and andrew for three years, and their passion for craft beer is real, i have been talking to them throughout the whole process. and i think that many people know that there is kind of a renaissance of craft beer going on in the bay area as evidenced by places like city beer and a lot of the up and coming

breweries and this is just a trend. the prime example and oakland just approved the provisions on college avenue and actually granted them a variance which was an unusual step. but the point is that a lot of municipalities are not wanting to get in the way of this movement and to have this off-sale ability is a key thing for their business to thrive, like a lot of the other examples that have already been mentioned. i strongly support their application. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> i am soma tenatn, fourth generation san franciscoan and i am opening up a restaurant in april on (inaudible). i think that these guys are part of the help for a solution to revitalization. the area right now, i can't help but think of amsterdam from the wire and i was walking down the street this morning and i was talking to the guys

at swan oyster depot telling them that i was going to a hearing where is the location. and they were like it seems like the city would rather have homeless people over there that are not paying taxes instead of working class people who are paying taxes and thirsty. >> you are like having great department buildings over there and those are faceless venture capitalists and here you have two people that are going to be there every day and it will be working with the neighborhood and it seems like they are going to follow all of those guidelines and make it clean, and clean from graffiti and this is positive. and i don't think that we should be stopping it. >> thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> excuse me, thank you, good morning. my name is chris la page and i am a native of san francisco. over the years i have seen the landscape of the city change with the times. i believe that the mid market civic center corridor is both

ready to modernize the image, although it has been plaqued with crimes decreasing. the foot traffic shows this, with respect to the crime, my years of experience in the nightclub and bar security fields will help jen and drew to develop a coherent and flexible security program that addresses the needs of the hall as well as the neighborhood in general. the proposed beer hall at 1 polk would be an asset to the neighborhood in both a business and community sense and i strongly support this. >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is matt maloney and i own a business in san francisco and i am all for businesss in san francisco and creates tax revenue and gives people employment and the concept is reliance on the off sales as far as i understand, they are very, very nice people. they are starting a small family, they have a small

family, and i think that i am 100 percent behind it. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? if so, please come on up. mr. paulson it is good to see you i have not seen you in a while. >> good to see you supervisor campos. >> i see you in the newspaper. >> i can see polk street looking fast in its faded jeans and i hope that you keep the city really green. ♪ sun down you better take care ♪ if i find you's been creeping down polk street back stairs ♪ sometimes i think that it is a shame, and polk street is gone through so many achange ♪ >> music picture a bar ♪a verm uth they can make

♪and i hope that it turns out really, really liquor license great ♪ sun down, you better take care ♪and i find you you've been creeping around the polk street back stairs. ♪ >> going ahead and fix your liquor license, and go ahead and treat a beer to have a friend, and give it to a change, and i hope that you fix it up from polk street number one and to the end. and i hope that your dreams all come through with a liquor license too. and a morning you are going to have i hope that you feel good. and it comes all liquor license great to you. thanks. >> thank you. >> is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? >> seeing none, public comment

is closed. >> do you want to add something? >> yes. rich vancroy for the police department. sfpd is recommending revitalization of the mid market... i am sorry. we are... [ applause ] >> the last gentleman, tough act to follow, but you know 15 minutes ago or so i asked for some public comment and community out reach and you know this is what i am looking for. and i encourage you guys in the future any future applicants and so representing the police department we are all for the revitalization of the market and the civic area and so i would like to withdraw our condition number two on the off-sale. [ applause ] . >> thank you. >> thank you. >> take care. >> i would like to now turn it over to district six supervisor jane kim i know that she and her office have been working on this for some time. supervisor kim

>> thank you, supervisor campos and i guess that i don't need to be here any more and i had no idea how much fun that was, that will be on the list of committees. thank you for allowing me to sit on this item. i apologize for being late and i did have a prior meeting at 10 a.m.. i am not sure what was said before, but they did approach our office in october of last year and outlined a business where there is not a tremendous amount of small business traffic. there is certainly not an over saturation of bars, like the middle polk street neighborhood where i know that sfpd has been devoting a lot of time currently. this will be modeled after similar operations like city beer store which i frequent a block away from my home, or ruge, which partnered the barses with the boutique sections.

activating this creates multiple benefits to the neighborhood and i understand that mr. and mrs. hall already had a meeting with the residents of the building argenta and have garnered their support or many of the residents. do i want to appreciate the work ever inspector stalker from alu who worked with getting the applicants the licensing process over the last two years and while i actually these points are moot now, while the board cannot alter the conditions, we can certainly recommend. i do appreciate that sfpd has now come and stated that they would like to remove condition number two, my purpose of being here was actually to add a recommendation that we not enforce number two. but i think that that that point is moot. so i do want to thank sfpd and members of our community for coming out in support. i personally am excited about having another place to go near city hall, i think that many of us, may go there to be clientele, at the beer hall and i do want to particularly thank jennifer and andrew because

they have done quite a bit of work over the last couple of months in particular with the office working with the sunny and gulo to make sure that we are putting forward a responsible plan that is going to enhance not detract or add public safety issues to the neighborhood and i think that that is very important. and tomorrow, actually, friday, the mayor and i will be at the opening of the 6th street safety hub, sorry we just changed the name. and given in light of the announcement, of the additional foot patrol that we are dedicating to the sixth street and mid market, i think that it is appropriate that we support the small businesses that will be a partner with the city and sfpd on energizing a neighborhood and hopefully, making it both a more energetic neighborhood but also a safer neighborhood. so, i do want to thank the committee members for their time. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor mar? >> yes, thank you, to the police department for their

listening to the community and being really responsive, i really appreciate that and haven't really witnessed this before you but i appreciate it. >> and i worked in the area of 50th street 20 years ago and i remember when fox plaza had the bar and restaurant and the quinncy restaurant was around the corner and the first pub club around there but it was, and the top hat or there were a bunch of different places with a livelier area and i am sure that when the old fox theater was there it was been a hub of activity. but i really feel that recently it is really changed and this beer hall will really help to improve the area and off-site to me will hopefully improve access for many people in the area that i think would be strong customers of the beer hall as well. i really wish that dan and andrew had considered the richmond district as well. we have the second healthy spirits store that just opened on clement and also, what is it

chomp and swig, but there are other areas that i hope that people will consider as well. but it is a great business and i hope that you have great success as well. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> supervisor yee? >> thank you. >> so, i was along when the fox center was there, and it was very lively and it was my favorite thing actually on market street. but getting back to business. you know, it is pretty evident from the presentation by jen and andrew that and also from the testimony that by opening up this business, beer hall, it is going to be a very positive impact on the area itself. and although i am not a real big beer drinker, i drink wine and the model that you are proposing, makes a lot of sense to me because i have gone into a wine tasting places and they do have the off-sales, it is

really helpful after you taste something that you really like and you can buy something. so i appreciate that model. and i would be supporting the recommendation. >> thank you, supervisor yee. i want to again, thank all of the members of the public who have come out to speak on this item. and i also want to thank supervisor kim and her office for all of the work that she have done on this. and our police department, and i think that inspector, you said it pretty, you know, high bar, so we expect singing any time these items come forward in the future. but, on a serious note, i do appreciate the responsiveness and the fact that you are listening to what the community is saying. and so, and to, jen and drew, i think that you have done an amazing job to reaching out to the community. and you know, the good thing about this process is that it allows you to see what people really think about you and i think that by that, you should

be very, very proud of what you have accomplished. so, in terms of the item before us, if we could have a motion to move this forward with the positive recommendation? and to accept the conditions that have been placed as amended, so if we could have that motion by supervisor mar. >> yes. >> if we can take that without objection? >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. [ applause ] >> mr. clerk, if you could call item two. >> item two, is a hearing to consider the issuance of type 42 on-sale beer of wine public premises license to cheng for zaza spa located at 543-second street. >> if we could have the applicant come forward. for item number two. is the applicant here? >> why don't we give this

person an opportunity to come to chambers. why don't we move to item three. >> item number tlao three, the hearing to consider the transfer of a type 57 special on sale general license from 4461 mission street to 717 battery street. >> great. if we could hear from the applicant on this item, please? >> >> good morning supervisors john cevlon here on behalf of the sponsor. they are in the final stages of completing the battery street to be operated with a private club and hotel suites when they purchased the building it was red tag and vacant for a few years and they are looking to have the construction complete by early this summer. so the club will not be

operated like a typical nightclub or bar, the purpose of the club is to provide the san francisco tech arts and non-service to gather and socialize. the hotel rooms will ensure that the restaurant and lounges on the first two floors will not be operated as to cause a nuisance to the hotel guests, 24-hour security will be provided at the club. alcohol can only be purchased through the use of swiping a club id card. and between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., only a club id card could provide access to the building. we have conducted significant neighborhood out reach on this liquor license, transfer. and in addition to the required noticing, we wrote directly to the golden gateway tenant's association as well as the (inaudible) coast neighborhood association and we actually did a presentation at dcna board meeting in december and they are in support of the project.. and i also just wanted to direct a slight error in the polre