community and within communities there's a lot of discussion about cultural and history. i'm holy through this process we can figure out ways to work together and to incorporate more of historic language or historic presentation in this. i don't see it at all when it talks about the planning group. i just would liquor and i'm sure there are members of the planning commission that will appreciate and welcome us working together to become a stronger city with one voice rather than, you know, finding out information is not flowing >> commissioner wolfram.

>> i have a question about the organization of the prehistoric preservation is there ever my elevation of the organization of the way the staff works in the quadrant so the preservation staff is assigned within a quadrant because northwest needs help but southeast can't help because of the workload. >> we have assignments within each quadrant. i have a question about the organization >> the quadrant system i i know we talk about it every year or two if that's the way to go all the current planning we haven't talked about that by putting folks in the quadrant.

the advantage is people get to know their district and the key players and their somewhat distinct. >> tim you might want to comment on that. >> tim. our sequa they're housed in different quadrant their floaters they go where the need t is bans a quadrant like you said southeast quadrant is overwhelmed we'll see if the other quadrants r are able to help. we try to rethink it but we have noticed an improvement or

efficiency in reducing the sequa backlog and san bernardino them to the planners citywide. commissioners >> commissioners, comments or questions. okay. we'll close that item and we will adjourn the meeting. excuse me. you're right we didn't have any public comment? >> i got to evenly grossed in the meeting. >> president hasz. there's a project called the assemble center but i prefer to call it someone else. one didn't exit the area it wouldn't shock you to say it's a disgraceful wasteland and part of it is because there's no

descendent design there what's there is discouraging people to not to want to be in the area. i have been for 15 years trying to get a public area plan put together. and i've recently increased my complaints to the mayor and he has asked the planning department to try to pull some things together. the things include substantial safekeeping center they've hired some exotic planners from europe to make physical improvements to the safekeeping center but

there's no agreement to the physical improvements and there's a trust in the public land to try to improve the playground but you can't do that alone. and then i've been push to use the platoon that was - the draft plan prepared 90 in 1998 which was put into the deep freeze to discuss a public plan that includes not only the plaza by fulton street. if you will, stone o ton street was cleerd by this department many years ago to be a mall or something not a mroort but it's remained a parking lot. the centennial of the safekeeping center is in 20016 so is a go time to pull it

together. i haven't had many direct conversation with director ram but it probably involves you're going those parts as well some consulting services as well as staff to develop a conceptual plan that can receive support among the various parties. i am one of the directors of the safekeeping center benefit district that represents thirty blocks. and then it could be sent off to environmental review. now it could very well call for improvements i have a plan you can't discuss improving anything and the wasteland that is there currently will remain. so i view this as apple important step and we'll get

behind it >> do you want to comment on that. >> yeah. . you, you know, the city took on union square years ago and had a desi competition. i've been in the city 24 years and the safekeeping center starting from whether i came here was camp agreeing in his at the time. it was an odd space for such a prominent grouping of the historic buildings. so i'm wondering if there's any notation for a citizen intentional to do a national design competition. though do you get people to agree on the program but it seems like that could be a fantastic way to a shine the light on what are the

possibilities for one hundred years later making this a great safekeeping space for san francisco? i'm not certain we need a design competition it was held in the 90s to choose a team to develop a plan. i think there's value in the plan one of the things i hope is looked at is the draft plan to see, you know, how much of it is worth keeping. i've suggested we readhere the planners to update it and incorporate sustainable things as a budget way to move it forward. hiring international architects and all that will there the budget by several fold and the important thing is turning to

the historic g.e. try and making this a public place that doesn't need ultra fancy architects. once we put this together then they're maybe a point where someone says maybe we need to have american people international competition i don't know >> thanks again on the planning staff it's a busy crazy crazy time. thank you.

thanks for joining us on this beautiful december day to mark this ground breaking of the exciting new edition of the san francisco landscape. my name is mike sanford. i work for the reality corporation. it's my pleasure to be your mc today. on behalf of reality and all of our partners and this development project. welcome. i was talking to my daughter this morning, she's 4 years old and she says to me like most days, "daddy, what are you doing today?" actually i have a very exciting day. we are meeting with people this afternoon and most importantly i get to be part of this ground breaking project and the mayor is going to be here. he runs the city

and thinking she would be very impressed with her father. and she says okay, can i watch my little pony on your ipad. she will be the media worker and i know this will be the cutting edge when she's ready to join the work force. 333 brandon is the lead project development in san francisco. like everything that we are inspired to do in this great city it's a very special project. it's located at the nexus of the industrial city's past and all the future. it creates a unique opportunity for us to explore the character and contemporary spaces and operating systems designed to increase worker productivity. it incorporates many of today's many ideas of sustainable development and operation. as

you will hear from our partner david johnson and his firm. it has our leadership goal to high quality enterprises in san francisco and nurtures a business environment that supports strong economic growth as you will hear from mayor lee. it also established new benchmark for what is possible today for commercial development and you will happy hear from our company leader. john kilroy. i think you will understand that we are a huge believer of san francisco. we have demonstrated that faith in local management, resources and development. it has taken a big teamworking together very closely to bring us to today's ground breaking. that is a lot of people and we are glad to see to many people with us today. it's my pleasure to introduce one of the city's

biggest visionaries and supporters. the mayor learned from the very beginning what a very exciting opportunity this has been and he's supported us every way through this development. i know my daughter will understand 1 day how special it is to have him here. please welcome honorable mayor lee. >> mike, thanks very much. congratulations to you and certainly to john and what a wonderful design concept you have here for sure. i'm really excited to see this go up. first of all, happy holidays! it's always great to be with john kilroy because he's been a great partner in our economic recovery for the city. i can't think of another developer who has been so diverse in its work and the kind of tenants that are coming into his buildings. if you have a chance, like a

lot of us walking down from the bart station to the ballpark on second street, you will see what i mean when you see the vibe -- of that whole corridor and the wonderful projects that it's done. today's site, i have to say to you, i have been to this site before. any other it's a parking lot but it was the firefighter's chili cook off site. on occasions you have some good events here but it represents some of those areas that are under valued and the great companies like this and you look at these historic areas and you think what could we do to bring more value to it and as you see this open floor plan, windows that can operate. the idea that you can have a

building that not only matches some of the historic buildings around here and compliments it which is design, but could be as modern as what you would expect. we need those buildings, we need those examples. john and his team, they are all coming up. also, it's not in expensive to do this. i mean, you have to add on some additional cost for that and i want to thank you for that because having a water reclamation system on the site is incredibly reflective. that means we are hoping for rain. but it is, i think a very demonstrate -- a modern progressive design. but also designed for a very diversed bunch of clients and the new,

it's not just tech, it could be anybody that wants to work in a collaborative environment. what happens when you look at the kilroy portfolio, you see the tenants, pack 12, new ones like kc, i think it's tv and some other names that i can't even pronounce, crinkle is one of them and others that i have yet to visit. i have to do that on my tuesdays is visit some of these sites that i can't pronounce. i want to congratulations you and thank the other departments that be working closely with you to make sure that we honor the pace of these developments because these are very invaluable times to us right now. i predict that a couple years from now we'll look back

and say, gosh, these were good times to work closely together because it is about economic recovery. it is about jobs for everyone, for everyone, for all different incomes in the city. and these are areas of the city where we are challenged where we have under utilized. there will be more sites where we identify yesterday. we can do creative things and i will be tapping the creativeness of kilroy reality for helping me with house dmangdz -- demands in this city as well. we need this creative approach constantly and you are going to see this building immediately with these creative forces that are offering more jobs and creating more jobs that are sustainable for the long-term. i just want to see what it's doing in this area so close to the transit system and park.

this is going to be a great building. the materials they are going to be using is going to be complimentary and complimentary to what you see on the revitalization of the market with all the companies that are there. i want to again thank kilroy for being such a great leader. by the way, in addition to being a fantastic realtor and developer, john has been great. thank you, john, for your support that in a very big way. he's actually civic minding and participating in so many other things. they have their own giving foundation that i have been very thankful for because you are also showing that fill --

philanthropic season. i'm here for the last chili cook off and make sure that we are working to create more opportunities for the people to succeed in this city. kilroy, congratulations, johnson, thanks for your fantastic design and working together for putting this on and to your whole family happy holidays! and congratulations. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, mr. mayor. i had the pleasure of first working with dave johnson on the development of square one here in soma. i'm glad we

can collaborate again today. please welcome our architect dave johnson. [ applause ] >> good morning, everybody. thank you very much. these are such kind words, it's amazing. it's a beautiful day. thank you, mike. but i want to say this you to the people to the community of south park who might be here today to see this conversion that it's making from a parking lot that had a cultural history from a chili cook off that will be a new vibrant addition to the neighborhood. this is such a tremendous change. this neighborhood is an important fabric of san francisco and the future of san francisco. our approach when we started this project was humbling by first understanding the nature of this place as the mayor described. one of the textures of the neighborhood, one of the

opportunities for light, air, views, shade, habitat, art and joy, where could we tap into. single family -- we brace the challenge and the opportunities of the future. defining opportunities that can create long value and how about a property that increases value over time in this neighborhood. in doing so we work at multiple scales called the cradled framework in a design to create more good rather than less bad. at first we started the smaller scales, we continued to work at the small scales and continue to work with a team to find those materials that are going to promote human and ecological health down to the molecule. one of the products that we are

most excited about and i think we are going to be one of the very first to use a substitute for firing a brick where we are going to be using a biological process to create brick paveers similar to that brick to create a model. at the broader scale we've adopted and supported the strategy that the city has put forward in this neighborhood to create an eco district and we continue to support these ideas as we find ways to share resources and spaces and places to create a courtyard that we share. create streets that in vietinvite people and share resources and buildings. i want to thank you very much for this opportunity. we have a tremendous team that we all should give a hand to. thank you. [ applause ]

>> thank you, dave. i have that had privilege of working with john kilroy now for about 3 years. i recognized early on that he has three attributes for effective leadership. he's always looking ahead for the important ideas that shape the future of commercial real estate. at the same time he's absolutely grounded in the moment. he's committed to delivering every project to the highest standards. there would be no 333 brandon street without john's vision and energy and optimism and ability to move a project forward. it's my pleasure to introduce him now. please welcome john kilroy, president and ceo of the company. [ applause ] >> he's either a germ foeb.

thank you for the comment. i'm sure your daughter will be a tech person. it's great to see everybody here today and thanks for coming out. it's actually nice and warm right here where it's back in the shade it's a bit chilly. as mike noted we've been deepening our commitment to the city in a spectacular way in the course of three years. we have 4.5 million square feet that we own or operating or under construction including this development here. this represents a total investment of several billion dollars and we are not done. i can tell you we are working on a lot of other opportunities here in this community and i have to say and i said this to multiple groups, investor groups, when ed is gone as mayor of the city, we have to send him to washington because

he knows how to get things done. if we have him back there, think of the revitalization we can have as the economics in the united states. i could not say enough about our mayor ed lee. he's a remarkable guy and that goes for the city department that we work with on a daily basis. this is a great example of our commitment to quality and long lasting product and to the environment. i want to take a moment to introduce someone very special to the kilroy organization, our vice-president of sustainability. sarah, stand up, wave. shake hands with the mayor. you can tell your daughter you did that. this is a woman that academic -- came into my office several years ago. i knew her dad very well. we were very good friends and

she was getting a masters degree and her dad asked me if i would meet with her and talk about the future and not for the idea of working for kilroy, but i said, you know what, the right place for you is here because i want to be the leader in office buildings in the united states and you come to work for us and show us how it's done and she has done a remarkable job. so sarah, thanks very much. [ applause ] this project isn't the biggest one in the city that we are doing or that anybody is doing. but it's a pretty remarkable project. it's a second lead in platinum building. we tried to make it net zero. you can't do it in existing law but we are working to change the law. it embraces everything that we hold dear at kilroy. i'm sure it's going to be real successful. we are having a number of discussions right

now. but the platinum design includes among other things, a living roof, reducing emissions, a huge bike storage area. i like to ride bikes. shower, locker facilities for people that ride bikes and work out. we are talking about rain water being harvested to flush toilets and renewable power generated on-site. this building will consume 2 percent less negligent and 45 percent less water. in nearly 95 percent of what you see today will be recycled, all of this stuff here, 95 percent of this is going to be recycled into the project itself. think of that, less trucks on the street. it's all good. and it's pretty amazing that we have the technology in this country to do those kinds of amazing

things today. it uses every inch of space to create large work spaces to create collaboration from the work force from the ground to the rooftop garden. you will see court yards and other places that we are beyond requirement to do. i'm a landscape freak, quality freak and that permeates our entire organization. we want to be an example of what others could and should do. there aren't as many people doing it as there should be. so, rather than just keep going on about the building itself, you will see it soon enough. but i like to thank a number of folks here because as mike said, it does take a team. our

architect, you met johnson, fashion park, the entire william mcdonalds team, wsp group, sandas, and creek, thank you very much. the contractors, the builders and melanie and phillips, our land use attorney, tim ruben, the brokerage firm, elliot and english and special thanks to my partners from the corporation. jeff, our vice-president of development and construction services. carl brown, the project engineer, brandon hwang, director of development, and senior vice-president of development services, we live in a world today where there i