thousands of doctors are at the masconi.asconi center has one big draw back. >> walking from one classroom to another sometimes it's very congested, very bottleneck. >> the pa profession has doubled in size every decade. for us it's about developing a relationship in places we know we can give these high quality educational meetings. >> reporter: at 700,000 square feet, the masconi complex is small ranking 25th in size compared to other sites around the nation. >> we're feeling the pressure. a lot of our groups are growing and would like to come to san francisco. >> reporter: the masconi center expansion includes replacing the lobby with a four story addition that would add meeting rooms and ballroom facility. it also includes a pedestrian bridge reducing the need to shut down howard street to the largest conventions. more conventions could also mean more money for near by businesses. >> you absolutely see the influx of people. so it definitely helps. >> reporter: the city expects the number of hotel rooms to expand and keep

we had a really good month in april because we had a couple of big projects coming in masconi, projects, for example, the plan review fees came in for $4.3 million which is double of what it normally is. so if you look at -- let's look at that one. -- if you look on the second page plan review 61101 will you see a large number there, you will see 2 million there. and this kind of goes back to originally we talked about the fee study, our revenues seem to be very volatile at times, one projects can make or break, or change the actual projections, given that, based on what we have done through april, we're now actually projecting we're going to have about a $7 million revenue surplus in the current year. if you recall back in december, that number was not a lot lower, because of the pick up of what is going on so consistently every month, i say the same thing we're doing better than budget, but we're not projected to do better than we did last year last year at this time i we were at $66 million, or so. so we're doing budget but 14-15 is turning out to be a big year. on the expenditure si

community guides are like doe sents -- we have a lot of expansion in our neighborhood from the masconi center and the mexican museum coming down we will incollies and need you port from the community benefit district. we do a thing together called yerba buena night, they organize they celebrate the district it's free there are families and activities all over the place, they also do granting to the neighborhood, which supports. family art projects, and exhibitions that are really important. i think it's really notable that their street skaep workcape work -- (they're awesome to collaborate with, we need them in our community thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. my name is ray bobit, from sf clubs, we operate 715 harrison, which houses city nights and cityscape pizza. we are one of the store fronts, we have been there 28 years i have been there 26 years. the transformation of the area is amazing. as you well know beyond the residential expansion, we still have small businesses that have been there several years shg including our own. what the ybcbd has done is created a circumstances

community guides are like doe sents -- we have a lot of expansion in our neighborhood from the masconi center and the mexican museum coming down we will incollies and need you port from the community benefit district. we do a thing together called yerba buena night, they organize they celebrate the district it's free there are families and activities all over the place, they also do granting to the neighborhood, which supports. family art projects, and exhibitions that are really important. i think it's really