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re overall pleased with the entertainment in the city we had large crowd with the fireworks but in totality the city performed pretty well that night as did our guests that were reck creating and celebrating nufdz interesting i did spend time in the northern district it was surprisingly quiet both chestnut and the old union street around the area mission was average i'll say the northern that was active in the northern was polk street but manageable but we know over the years what was once the hot spot embarcadero has moved and now
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it's quiet and now on polk street i think the crowd that was once interested if broadway has moved to polk street we had a lot of activity with regard to the one comment broadway went amazing let well, i'll underscore one of our preliminary atmosphere was closed that night it reflected in that we had little problems other than the crowd that was manageable those are my comments outside of central station but the commander were pleased with everything that's a credit to all of you thank you. >> any public comment on that item on please questions or comments. >> seeing none that's closed and we'll have hearing and possible action regarding the
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applicants under the jurisdiction. >> good evening commissioner so we have consent agenda two items one would be horns corner i'll gladly do this they're going for a limited live performance permit we did get submitted conditions from the admission station and the applicant is fin with those conditions very is it no problem and the second with the mad dog they're coming into combriens with the permit we can vote on the consent agenda. >> is there anyone in the audience that wants to have a discussion on either of the items on the consent calendar embed with the consent calendar. >> on that commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner joseph commissioner perez
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commissioner hyde. >> both those are approved all right. so moving right along joerd is here for two items c and d the first one is the empire room it is 555 golden gate stars tradeer vikings was there right around the corner and of course i know the gentleman from pier 70 with this location close to city hall with the happy hours and the club into the evenings he'll thank you. >> good evening, commissioners happy new the first golden gate and the second washburn i think we're doing the 555 the first
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was the jeremy tower well known chiefs and this was his basis for many, many years after it was his space it turned into trader vikings that closed in 2008, and in 2012 a restaurant tour from bugle came up and unfortunately didn't do that well and shut the doors after 9 months of operating the building was sold to j s sullivan a developer in san francisco they've most recently developed a project on harrison and fourth and plan on developing this space to the developer approached us said hey, guys would you be interested in a lease we said walking through the doors it was pretty close to
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how jeremy 24 hours left it we said, yes the plan is for this space leveled in about 3 to 5 years we have a 3 year lease term at the location and we're going to activate the space before we went into an agreement i sat down with officer of permit officer of northern, etc. burn and captain of the northern station we sat down and asked them how they felt about the entertainment and they're overall opinion they were excited i don't want to speak to them they're not here to speak for themselves but they're excited it's a dormant hardly used area of the city after
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5 o'clock and very rare that folks around there as well in the packet on the first page is the history and the second page a map to give you guys a context as to where we are and pretty much a stone's throw a mcdonald on the corner of golden gate a problematic area for drug dealing and loitering where folks are not supposed to be we hope in bringing in clinic tell after 5 o'clock and the we understand we are going to clear some out the next one i'm presenting for micro e mission street is we are move into our
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wonderful hand drawn blue prints on the next page outline see a reasonable lay out of the space i met with supervisor kim and sunny from 2nd district and spoke about what we want to see in the space there was a cafe space that was prayed solely from the actual bar we are working with the bureau messes kitchen that's been in the tenderloin so we're subsidizing a portion of their lease to get them back only their feet for the next couple of years hopefully in 3 years to find them a that time space in 2nd district with that we're going to have a huge kitchen but the kitchen is spectacular we're
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reserve san francisco saw a trend this push towards food trucks its fantastic but we're going to give out of give the food trucks a brick and mortar space to serve their food for they're happy hours not necessarily trucks parked anti frun front but a dining experience so go to the fun ones the 3rir789 lease is poker a mexican alleys they make delicious tacos as cammy said we're going for a intense active
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crowd we're calling this the working name the writer wood room it's a fun and really cool looking space similar to a bar i had on levin worth that was called the average - the average cocktail between 5 and $26 so continuing on there's an slaementd ceiling a big bar section we did very little changing to anything in this space we only added a couple of bathrooms to facilitate what we are trying to do back in the day it was like in the 8 thousand square feet we have had bathrooms we had a temporary
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licenses for new years eve and it was a smash in the next packet i'm active in all the communities that i go and do bars in or event spaces i tried my dash it to reach out to the community but they are not any that's good news but i missed out on the fun committees if you go onto the next page some of the fun stuff we took the trader vikings out of the space and tried to look at what jeremy tower would do today like 3 chandeliers there will be a whole bunch of chandeliers and most of that it is photos taken
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in san francisco that's the long and short of 5 golden gate i'm happy to answer questions. >> so it makes me really sad this behalf place is going to be leveled i guess that was what this legislation was so incredibly important stereos was a great restaurant this is a gorgeous space the woodwork a magnitude i have a question on the application you say that the venue will turn into a distance club topless bar around friday and saturday you say at the bottom you have a number of corporate and private events what about a evening corporate event on wednesday not a distance club. >> only on friday we've
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incorporate. >> even if the corporate wants to distance you're not going to let them do it. >> we'll let them dance. >> this is just the discrepancy of our intention and that's the plan. >> i wanted to be clear okay. >> and is dance club night club we're not trying to bring in public works or some of the other venues the terminology we're looking at is a social house so folks can come out and listens to music. >> so you have any idea of a sound like system. >> it's all self-powder we're looking at putting in 4 speakers or so you. >> how about stands. >> no. >> the food truck idea is
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brilliant. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> do we have other questions. >> are you planning on doing soinld mitigation or sound like proofing i can give you an answer i don't know yet the building is built very, very well, all masonry building some of the windows are a little bit thin we were open for new years eve some of the spaces the air gaps of the doors to make sure they're covered up but without turning on the sound system and go outside and trying to listens it's hard to say if we need to absolutely one hundred percent if we don't need to then no. >> thank you i have one. >> commissioner lee. >> we granted a permit for this years ago was there a sound like
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system left behind. >> no to the point they started to steal the security cameras and it looks like the previous tenant left in a hurry. >> so you're going to put everything in. >> unfortunately, this crazy lighting system that's all touch careen screen from the mid 90s we're in the process of trying to figure out how the entire building is wider at this point. >> any other questions okay. you can have a seat and do we have comments from the police on this. >> the northern station submitted their approval. >> great do we have public comment on this issue. >> all right. seeing none the matter is with the commission. >> i'd like to make a motion to
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approve. >> i second. >> okay. no further discussion on the motion to approve your commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner joseph commissioner perez commissioner hyde. >> in the berry mess kitchen is one of my favorite kitchens in the world i sue it was closed i started making my own dishes. >> how do you do that. >> all right. next jordan back for our job that is a place of entertainment 1337 mission and plans to have accomodation of djs and live music and the southern station has approved and submitted conditions in our packet it's me again so the first page in the packet a letter from the
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streets alliance to give a little bit of context i live directly above the bar this is a 3 story building i live above the bar it was operated successfully by a group that has a restaurant and hotel in san francisco they substantially sold it to a gentleman that wasn't sure about night life and operated parolee i lived upstairs and they have issues here and there and violations and just ended up not making a lot of money and the owner of the building said jordan you're the guy i want inside this space and kind of separation of church and state he said it's going to be city and that's not good for the block between 9th and 10th
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is a heavy crackhead and crack dealing sort of neighborhood i said, "yes we'll do it and undertook the remodeling and redoing of this space odd job has been on for just about 15 months we've been operating successfully for that period of time and it is now that we just kind of want to add nor excitement and fun to the space it is we'll skip to kind of the back of the packet and do the pictures the first picture you see from google earth it's how shine lounge used to look like it was a discard gray building with no windows and just kind of a not so reasonably nondescript building if you flip to the next
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page you'll see along with the ardent neighbor one hundred and 60 units of housing directly next door to us we opened up theed they have glass windows and the second floor we helped to clean it up and got rid of the grief and we run security currently dealing with entertainment 4 nights a week and make sure that folks are safe to come inside if you go to the next page of pictures you'll see the knowledge brother of odd job is in the back of odd job and a super high-end cocktail bar the bartender makes you a fancy cocktail
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and then the last page you'll see a shot looking at the opposite side and then off to the right-hand side the bartender is making a $16 come back tile and for folks you'll see the layout of the space it's 24 hundred square feet we'll do some fun cool stiff we'll do the live music i've referred to say jazz sirens and jazz for happy hours the dj stuff we're looking maybe two or three times a month again, i live upstairs my wife is 5 months pregnant so the likely hood of getting loud it not right one of the letters from the developer and the
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construction company and the other on the front page from the actual neighborhood association i'm a member of the neighborhood association and i've been a member sins i moved into this space about 7 years ago this is near and dear to my heart my pain bib a project to not only have this space run well but the neighborhood improved. >> any questions. >> just one is it helpful to have the studio next door to keep people in line. >> there is one of the teachers is a long time bounceer at the night club space he helps the having rants moving along. >> i was joking it was a joke (laughter). >> it's been there for a very,
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very long time 15 years. >> so pete was love it. >> any others all right. great, thank you next and do we have the police. >> i believe the officer is here. >> great. >> gentlemen and commissioners so as you can see jordan does his homework and does the packet we know jordan from several locations in the city jordan does everything on the up-and-up when we says he lives up above we know about the burglary reports and with the pregnant wife all major complaints will be kept in house
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(laughter). >> we approve with no problems. >> great, thank you. >> do we have public comment on this all right. seeing none the matter is with the commission. >> i'll make the recommendation to approve the permit. >> i second. >> all right. on the motion to approve with the conditions from the southern station. >> that's correct. >> yes. >> commissioner frost pursue commissioner lee commissioner joseph commissioner perez commissioner hyde. >> good luck. >> commissioner hyde that was a pleasure thank you all right. so we have come to number 6 commissioners questions or comments. >> i think first of all, we have the remaining two items that are continued we need to vote on that.
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>> could a we get a motion to continue those two items? >> continue. >> i'd like to move items e and f on the agenda. >> so we're - point of information are we continuing them for what reason. >> i'll gave you a little bit of background with the graze theatre they've run into a planning issue. >> are they requesting the continuance. >> they're requesting it if we have to continue we'll hear them at the next meeting. >> in the meantime they're trying to get a letter of determination. >> here's my question if we vote to continue do we have to hear them if at the next meeting will the permit automatically get approved great what about for the one. >> they've requested to continue to the next meeting.
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>> okay. so can i make the motion i'd like to move to continue items 5 e and f per the request of the applicants until just - that's it that's my motion. >> i'll second. >> all right. on the motion same house, same call? >> okay. those two are continued. >> is this any public comment on this item? all right. >> oh. >> here we go. >> my name is richard i'm resident of chinatown and i have no connection or any person or proprietor of the greek theatres that's on my favorable comments
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as a bystander is it appropriate for me to say something i may not be here next time i live around the corner from the greek theatre as a kid we go to the movies and then right now i want to be continued we have lots of culture and chinese authors almost every month we have thirty mucosal app opera club in chinatown when i packing wake through there at night time and once a month they may that a presentation generally a few house and they import from hong kong and people perform we have
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lots of teenagers and dancing schools and core rot school you give them a permit well, coming to our accessory she'll tells you i think in so many million dollars thirty percent of the san francisco income when you issue a permit lots of money comes in they go for the movies or the staff or singing and go for the restaurants and gift shops. >> thank you, thank you very much any other public comment seeing none, item 5 is closed
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number 6 commissioners questions or comments. >> i just want to say that it was done well and he didn't have problems for a lot of reasons one of the reasons is really the economy the economy is better and people are happier and don't feel as stressed out but overall it was like people were behaving really, really well and whatever that is we've got to figure out what it is and keep it going that was amazing. >> i'd like to plea back on that i think that was probably because of our inspections and the job they're doing as well as the police department. >> you go leo. >> when you guys are doing your jobs and getting the people to tow the line you can't just how
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much for nufdz and have it run smooth they've got to have events and you to be out there twitter when the big events happen a lot of guys that hire security for one night it explicit work small business braulth upbringing in a crew for one night so you guys being out there to hear what happened in the central that's amazing that was that light of a night and i appreciate it i thought we would be hereafter new years eve to hear the drag anti stuff pretty much 25 years it was noted you fun so thank you to our police department and staff thank you. >> i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to thank commissioner hyde for your service for the commission as a
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fellow representative i appreciate all what you've done for the neighbors and i appreciate all you've done including that initiated the community outreach item late it was really awesome so best wishes to you and i labored to seeing you on the line. >> i get the final i ditto that commissioner hyde but the industry i do not like driving around on new years eve but every venue had a party sometimes because of the economy a lot of the clubs close because this year everywhere there was a party and people are outside and no crazy users and union square and i was really surprised i
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think the owners themselves have done a great job in trying to mitigate they don't want to n will be in bad situation it's a whole new 2015 a continual education for the owners and the neighbors are working with us and lieutenant as the l u and knowing what we go through help a lot helps a grateful so it's a great time for the commission i hope we continue and be better in 2015 and your come back right. >> no although although this is the best thing i've ever done so thank you any public comment on that item on commissioners commissioners questions or comments? all right. is there any further agenda items? (laughter)