three, 2, 1. >> all right. good morning. >> my name is nateesha the development at bridge housing and this is an exciting day for you and i'm thrilled to see you it together with us it's been a long journey to get to this milestone with one hundred and 37 units and took collaboration and happy to see supervisor stefani and remember three years ago that supervisor myself, mayor london breed and brenda who is the former ceo of mission

health clinic were all here in the mix of pandemic for the ground breaking celebration and to see the building and see our vision become a reality is really safely and want to kicking off things with inviting our before chair we have another one of the board members to celebrate this kim please come up to the podium. >> thank you welcome, everyone. >> smith has said i'm kim novack the chair and unfortunately, our members can't be here something before

catastrophic surgery but thank you for joining us to celebrate the opening of this truly special community been at that a long time. and as you heard this place is one of the first major housing developments in nearly a quarter of a sin try this will make the life-changing difference for one hundred and 37 families including 35 names who are moving from that's my report terrace to apartments and that includes a new expanded location for mission health center and low cost medical behavorial health and detrimental and this facility underscores the commitment to serve not just bridge residents

but our neighbors in the broader community we're thrilled to be part of this and couldn't have succeeded without the so forth support of partners and should know when you start to thank partners you will leave someone out so i apologize. this property was previously cited are family owned funnel homes and bridge was excited to learn the property was available more affordable housing in a community that greeley needs it and supervisor stefani and the mayor's office helped to arrange the funding and fortunately, this project qualified under b three 5 state law that expected the entitlement sea still we broke ground in the middle of pandemic 2021 and my gorgeously

this is fwours those things take a it takes time and development was for the as expedited as we would search warrant hoped and many projects connected to the power grid for a variety of step back reasons this project at the time of electricity grid several blocks i say i see someone nodding had expense to the construction and grateful to the city for helping to provide additional funds for that was necessary to make that available and like to express our gratitude to the mayor and supervisor stefani and the mayor's office of housing and community development and the housing authority of the city and county of san francisco and also like to thank the bank of america, tax credit allocation committee and on the debt committee and also like to add

that the construction team of b m w and the brothers and the many other consultants who worked on the project and finally, i'd like to again thank the bridge team for their extraordinary work on these complex projects we applaud you're unwavering commitment to tackle the housing needs for 40 years bridge has shared this commitment and look forward to continued teamwork with building health communities and improving that people's lives with that, i'm delighted to invite to the podium saving yes. >> good among this is a joyous

joyous i'm saving yes and appreciate you for me this is a coming full circle i saturday in the city 24 years under willie brown and a lot of people don't realize that that housing was built most of that right after world war ii and balance as temporary housing not permanent but yet 75 almost one hundred years later those buildings still stand some of the apartments with the housing authority don't have showers when we start work in a sunnyvale and worked with governor gavin newsom the idea how to reimagine affordable

housing in the city. here we go fast forward actuary years ago later on the site this is a free clinic and free detrimental care moving residents into the annex will be rebuilt and reimagined i've seen it as a supervisor one of the things i wanted to make sure that residents of this neighborhood would have a priority to house in those apartments as well. and so we expanded the ban for those technical in terms of finding affordable housing working with the mayor's office of housing and community development to expand for more working families because originally this design would have 20 luxury townhomes on the back of lights probably where we're standing when i came

into the office that's not the vision of this neighborhood. they need more housing for working people. because janitors and teachers and nurses working to survive and thrive in the city should no longer live in this neighborhood a home use to sell for maybe $200,000 is selling for $2 million in this neighborhood that is out of reach for every people so this project and at the nibbi brothers for your amazing work and homeowners i think that nibbi brothers starred in the excelsior let's give a big a round of applause for the contractors and many i have so many people to thank we might have 7 or 8 project managers we made to the finish line thank you for your tenacity and many,

many community meetings there was a lot of community outreach and a lot of engagement and input and this is what we have the results of a beautify community space and childcare space a clinic on the ground floor so bridge housing didn't walk away. but one part of story i think that is really important. and this is our treasurer fiance we were at the end of this project and for those who know affordable housing knows that like a cake layers of financing well, that final layer is the tax credit and she had the soul discretion and authority to transfer the tax credits we would have

eventually gotten that but the timeline was accelerated i know show she couldn't be here today but thank you, fiona moss made this project happen so let's give a round of applause for fiona as well. >> so many community-based organizations were actually engaged i'm not going to name them all they wanted this site in fill housing this is a parking lot on the north side and west side and everything else was 200 be car parking lot we were able to turn concrete into a beautiful affordable housing mixed affordable housing building so originally was about 90 units we got over one hundred and thirty unit that additional

thirty were for the working and housing stock residents living in substandard conditions let's be honest potrero but those families will be moving into brand new wonderful apartments. so i know a lot of people say that because bye one of my proudest days i've been in office for 8 years this project means so much we have studio finish is our free clinic we'll get there in the next - no, no. not because of anything other than the electricity some of the other things that slow down the funding even if i don't see this before i leave office will come in the next few months an integral integral part and the - is a wonderful development so

thank you to the mayor's office of housing and community development and staying with us and the nibbi brothers and the mission health center and bridge housing for doing a tremendous job to help to reimagine this spot in the neighborhood the first part of san francisco to have affordable housing and apartments built haven't been built if 60 or 70 we've done 6 hundred plus units thank you, everyone, and have a wonderful day (clapping.) shall i bring up the next person that the next person is coming up is - do we oh, speaking on behalf of the housing stock area president of housing commission coming up next joaquin torres.

>> (clapping) >> thank you so much for and good morning and the assessor recorder but serve as a housing stock and represents as supervisor saving i can't said what happens with the progressive values we hold dear our resources together to invest as the supervisor said in the layers. and on behalf of the housing stock and ceo for the leadership making sure that 35 of those onsite to be subsidized to be sure that layer of financing is matters to the health of the community and also represents the best of government we can layer financing, supportive services and the cooperation to make sure that families who have been

living in sub steward conditions realize a holistic place to live their supported and at the from the mayor emanuel for making that happen and leading the strategy there mayor london breed direction to make sure we can realize the vision to support diversity of the city and county of san francisco and as as neighborhood like the excelsior too many by names but as former residents of excelsior on i can tell you what an extraordinary beacon of hope for the neighborhood to realize their homes are invested in and the streets are being invested in and a community of family members care about their future i hope the residents feel and and you see that and all of us remember how important to invest the time and energy and our

hearts and souls to make sure we do who is bet best for the residents of san francisco first at the to the housing stock and those who that make that possible too many by name but congratulations to all you have who played a huge part and bridge and all partners that made that possible thank you. >> (clapping.) >> next up kera from bank of america. >> good morning all i'm keri a market exit for san francisco in the eastbound and my pleasure to represent bank of america provide financing and executrix and equity investment for this

impactful community and this is the culmination of a decades vision of itch needed affordable housing for district 11 a huge win noble for the residents who call this place home but the excelsior will have improved access to healthcare with the mission neighborhood clinic on the ground floor. we want to thank bridge for over the 20 years relationship for the opportunity for the financing by this place over the past 10 years we have clofbd with bridge on the rehab construction of over 12 hundred housing units 90 in san francisco and look forward to doing more and finally strong partnerships with developers like bridge and partnership like mpdu and the hoefrtd with the ongoing support

of creation of this sustainable and service rich affordable housing possible. finally thank you, again, for the commitment to our city and hard work congratulations to all and robert is next? >> (clapping) >> hi over first of all, congratulations to the bridge housing. team and to the city of san francisco. you provided leadership and commitment to affordable housing and to the excelsior community. this is a tremendous success in our neighborhood. i'm anderson with jones now j l l capital market we provided the permit wells to

freddie manny, moe, and jack affordable housing group and they have a long established relationship with freddie mac and who understood the financing needs and worked with us to deliver a long-term mortgage this is a 17 year mortgage and where j l practice is a core business of our firm we have stand with bridge housing and it's partners on the long terms success of this place. your community investment is transformal. and congratulations and at this time i have the pleasure of introducing anna cco of mission neighborhood health center.

(clapping). >> hello, good afternoon everybody um, gm. >> um, mission neighborhood health center was established in the 1960 as part affordable housing of a nationwide movement focusing think healthcare to the community and we are aligned with over 15 hundred community health centers across the country and in 2023 community health center provided healthcare services to over 32 million people across the united states. as one in 10 people in the united states. mission health center itself has provided care to over 15 thousand patients in the community in fee. the majority of our patients are community members in the mission and excelsior neighborhood most of

patients are pubically assured with medi-cal and medicare we take private as a community health center we serve everything that enters you are doors regardless of their ability to pay. through this clinic we hope to expand tour services to other 6 thousand community residents at least per year in the years to come and we will build on the communities health model to extend detrimental and behavorial health and general pc for children and adults and pregnant people who are residents of this place and the broader excelsior community. and we look forward to looking for our pardons and organizations our neighbors and businesses and community. mission health centers for the advocacy of communities and for health and justice and everyone here today for their support in moving this project forward and

as you can see on the outside on the corner were in the process of the building up the clinic and hope to open in the spring of 2025. we thank the city leaders to serve the circumstance and we thank you for prioritizing medical and detrimental we know an investment this is critical for the health of the community and future with that, i'm honored to introduce ra california a member resident here i hope someday will trust us to be her procedure of choice. >> good morning, everyone. >> i'm a little bit short i'm here honored to share any shire

story with you grew up in lake view that is affordable housing with my grandparents here in san francisco i'm a san francisco native and some girls dream of marriage. and a white picked finances he dreamed of being independent air force a teenage mom i found a clear in civil services where among i helped housing. after nearly 12 years i moved back to california and started a successful business in construction electrical and jailer services with a retail brand until a covid and the pandemic hit my business took a

tremendous loss. and i took the brunt of lose and found myself displaced and that's when i found my way to this place. many parts of people like andrea from the mayor's office of housing and community development i learned how to better advocate for myself and today, i have a home not only and long term care for any husband has had health issues but it also had provided me a foundation to dream again. and to start charting the course of life for the future i have a bigger dream i know you have better things for me to do. my

goal to move on from affordable housing and make room for other families to receive the support. but for now grateful to be here and lastly, i want to thank god more importantly and tremendous gratitude that he has put in my life as a blessing. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you ra california and stories like yours bring it together for us it takes time to get those projects off the ground but great to see stories. i want to introduce another resident here in our community and i also want to introduce

maricela who introduced for carla. thank you. >> buenos dias. >> good morning, everyone. >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> i'm grateful for the opportunity to getting us safely. >> (speaking spanish.) >> for me and my family. >> (speaking spanish.) >> me and any family were homeless living in an entering shelter for 10 months. >> (speaking spanish.) >> god gave me the opportunity of winning the lottery.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> and having a beautiful spatial us apartment 40 for me and my family. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we are very grateful with bridge housing a place and property managed for being kind and working with me. >> thank you. (clapping.) . thank you. so much pablo for sharing your story and maricela for helping u.s.s. share your

story with us i'd like to invite back my colleague to welcome london breed. >> (clapping). >> thank you, ra california and carla for the wonderful and inspirational comments it is important for us to stop and remember that you and your families and neighbors are why we're all here can't lose site of that proportion now any pleasure and honor to welcome mayor london breed. mayor london breed a staunch advocate for housing if not the first time you've done this but the mission dovetails with the bridge. and been grateful and a friend and as we work to improve the lives

in the community in the hometown welcome mayor london breed (clapping). >> i love greenish but love ribbon cutting much more. i got to say i'm happy to be here in this parking lot community because this is on the second one hundred affordable housing developments that we built here in over 25 years so is that a big deal (clapping.) when he take about the needs to build more housing we have to get series serious about that and as someone that grew up here i remember the mistakes of pass we tear down like the projects we for down three hundred places

we lived and built 200 we knew everyone was not going back. well we're not making those mistakes no where not only one by one placements like potrero hill but providing opportunities to build new places in underutilized properties in the city those become the safe affordable places for people to call home and taken that a step further. with neighborhood preference so that when we build those places, the people who live in those communities the people who are from the communities and the folks have their dry cleaners and nails done and schools and get right of first refusal that is how important not just about building that but making sure that the communities that the

part of this community that has faced the possibility of displacement they get a chance to be parts of their community in this extraordinary way i'm happy to be here to thank every single for making this possible a beautiful bringing nice building with clean and working elevators i want to thank a bunch of people it it it takes a village and the village are the people that steps up to the plate to make this project a reality thank you to the bridge housing for all the amazing work you do to produce affordable housing in san francisco and wounding the voters, of course, we had two affordable housing bonds pulling in one billion dollars so thank you to the san

francisco voters for supporting the affordable housing bonds and the mayor's office of housing and community development for implementing those bonds to help build those tints and to bank of america for continuing and thank you to the housing stock for continuing to provide those section 8 vouchers to make that affordable to mission health center and ymca urban services, to a lot of the advocates and residents and i see william and others in the house thank you, for a making sure that the businesses and the opportunities that exist for in communities are directly connected to this community. it does it takes a village and i'm so grateful to be here to celebrate this new village of outer mission neighborhood of san francisco. the safe affordable place to call home that up lifts over one

hundred and three 7 families looking forward to cutting this ribbon and mostly giving other families an opportunity to live and grow and thrive here thank you for being here. (clapping). >> thank you so much, mayor london breed we support not just on this project but to create much needed affordable housing in san francisco. our chair kim began the program thanking the team and staff but i wanted to take a couple of minutes if you bear with me to recognize the individuals here with us um, and really without them would have been impossible. so i want to

start with recognizing our architects please stand up i know that rick is here and the team a round of applause for those folks and actually collaborating with them on another large project the reservoirs this redevelopment and excited and looking forward to doing another one in the three or four years sooner and have a couple of people from the lynchburg nibbi brothers i see mike please stand up and anyone else from your team (clapping.) and a couple of other folks i want to name if you're in the room please stand up our construction manager and civil engineer, landscape architect and our financial consultants

with the california housing partnerships and i also want to once in a while thank the urban ymca. and, of course, to our joint partners health clinic we're looking forward going to be done i understand by march of next year and just been a long time in the making they're involved in the vision along before bridge got involved i'm looking forward to that opening up soon leasing i'd like to thank my team and if you can please stand up and call that anna and john. and the bridge team please stand up the development team (clapping.) everybody all of you. so i want to folks to know we have 5 developments under construction

totally 5 had the units we have others working on potrero and working on another project under a construction. and cumulative 14 projects average under construction. and have 6 or 7 any construction projects the ones i named. in our pipeline not possible without you guys a big a round of applause for them (clapping.) and a lastly, i really want to thank you, for taking the time to celebrate with us and actually hold on a couple of seconds i'll i would be remiss to not thank the property management and team once our work is done in the success of those vomits lies in their hands and have a couple of folks have. >> (calling names.)

>> our residents manager and want to name a couple of folks on the team melissa martin property management and natalia williams and. >> (calling names.) >> a round of applause for them and (clapping.) and as mayor london breed said certainly does take not a small village to get those things done i see ed, i apologize i forgot to name you but ed is the project manager to convert the loan this is the final step for that before we hand it over to property management and invite you waiting patiently to go out to the courtyard and the we'll

have the official ribbon cutting there thank you so much again (clapping). >>. okay. here we go. >> 1, 2, 3. >> >> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to

save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your

words. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. and then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the

office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush

days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department

for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in

this world, that you are watching san francisco rising with chris manor. today's special guest is sarah phillips. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed

released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. we have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and

significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. we increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and take-up of the beds dramatically, and there is more work to do. on the safety side there are exciting things that happened. we increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. august the highsh return in graduates. we see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime san francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides.

one thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. i think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at offices isn't the best downtown it can be. i think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use downtown. >> music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. can you talk about those and if there is upcoming events too? >> i think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. for san francisco and particularly san francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a great american city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and

music is a strong part that. the planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just golden gate park but downtown locations are a great example. there are smaller examples as well. the landing at--is a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. they participate in that. something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 concert series where we match local venues bringing their work and

partnership to useian square, music center plaza and embark cadero. we will be able to announce concert series through the sf- >> you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. can you talk generally what exactly that program is? >> yeah. so, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz small business or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. it is pilot. we had a incredible amount of interest. we had--i'm forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to

help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. if you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. that was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 small business or operators responded to that call. it is pop up. there is no intention this would result in forever small businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i don't have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for long-term leases so the spaces continue. it is the program. we are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to

pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. it is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and san francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. >> that's great. can you talk a bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so important? >> absolutely. you know, i would say not only the important generally but important in san francisco specifically. the benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but let's understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go. mta has absorbed the strategy

whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street? is this working? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayor's support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesn't work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it

is part of the city operating procedure. pilots also give people hope. when we have the short-term whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. >> lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of san francisco's status as a tech hub? >> i do, i think they work together. san francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. and there is a back-story to that. our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multi-story building has been open including allowing residential but we put other

barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our preevious boom is that, the amount that tech companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so we-without intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing out. now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much companies put at the market in the office spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. we have the ability to absorb expansion of the tech industry we are so strong at. we have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the

market, more ai companies looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the vac ancy. the opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. san francisco has always been great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. when our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super fertile ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. to talk about san francisco's assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really great university and educational institutions. we are between uc berkeley and stanford. the graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for

the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our human capital growing graduates. downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. as we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. the costs are high. mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for

those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are long-term changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isn't a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today and your creative vision and positivity, so thank you so much. >> thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. >> that is it for this episode. for sfgovtv i'm chris manors, thanks .

>> (music). >> my name is package scott i'm a general manager and vice president of the yerba buena ice skating and bowling center. >> we opened in 98, we are celebrating our 25 anniversary. the last ice relation at 48 avenue with the redevelopment agency started to reconstruct a yerba buena the city had suggested how about around ice skating we have a podium we run

from the tiny to the we have a whiff adult community of beginners and entering meats and so many people that only to san francisco and california for the east coast who grew up circulating and when they finding a pair they fall in love with that. >> my favorite ring it is a beautiful skyline and yeah. it is really nice (background noise.) our bowling center is adorable perfect for conference party and birthday party or have a good time and children's activity and wonderful playground and a great area to relax and enjoy the view it is 35 part of the city and a lot of great places to go around

and have lunch. skating is fun for the whole family we have an amazing program a huge adult population sea sorry about that in his skating and is or have a ton of programs it is walkable in their yerba buena community. we have everything you need. if i forgot our socks we have those and we charge a.d. mythics, inc., if you have no skates the general public typically e traditionally have public skating and open on the weekends and multiple sessions for everyone to

directors and parking authority commission to order. secretary silva, please call the roll. director heminger here. heminger present. director henderson here. henderson. present. director. kinsey i present henry present. director. tarlow present. tarlow present. chair. eakin. here. eken. present. we are expecting director kehena in a moment. for the record, i note that director haynes is attending this meeting remotely. director haynes is reminded that she must appear on camera and throughout the meeting in order to speak or vote on any items. places you on. item three. the ringing and use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited. at this meeting. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room. any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound, producing electronic device places you on. item number four, approval of minutes for the august 6th meeting. thank you. directors are