>> tara sullivan, reuben, junius and rose. i'm speaking to one development site, but it also applies to other sites. the key development sites are very unique, almost in the city. they are very large parcels with two to three to four buildings on them at times, and so often times, it is 75 to 85 feet, give or take, and it's also -- i mean, this is really getting into the weeds but how midrise tower versus a tower is defined, and you want to scale it around, but it's a combination of the heights with the definitions and the tower separation, and those eight particular sites are very unique compared to everything else. thanks. >> commissioner koppel: just in general, i'm open to looking at the more granular details when we hear this next time, and definitely in favor of the good jobs program. really happy to see the sustainability district going forward and really in favor of expediting approvals if developers are willing to commit to what is asked for as far as tenant protections, worker protections, prevailing wage, skilled an

the folks from reuben junius had me on saying hey, it's this way, but you've got to do it that way. the cherry's went on in my head and said hey, you're cherry picking. you didn't want the parts of the eastern neighborhood plan that didn't benefit you, but the other parts, you did. i'm a little confused, mr. junius. it looks like staff has kind of made a lot of decisions on these, but i'm open to more conversations with you folks and with staff. >> if you don't mind, you have a memo. we got a lot of information really right at the end. it was too much to consider the follow out comes of those, so i basically made a document called issues for consideration in your case report such that we can make sure that they're vetted with the presumption that today

reuben, junius and rose, the project sponsor and representing the owner of the property. this is an existing department store building with a size of 31,000 square feet. it is the type of retail setup that really is becoming ex-tink because of the changes that are taking place in the retail industry. so with respect to this building, macy's is going to be moving out no later than next january . we've joked around a little bit on our team that this building today is certainly not the prettiest building in union square, but in all seriousness, the existing building is very much opposite of what we want to see in a retail district today in terms of ground floor transparency, pedestrian friendly active frontages and so forth. so physically, this building absolutely needs to transform from the introvert it is today to the extrovert. it needs to being ativate approximately 360 feet of street frontage, and it needs to be able to draw attention to the upper floors so that the entier building can be successfully occupied. so this project is definitely first and foremost a retail p

reuben, junius and rose representing the sponsor.although today the focus is going to be on the district and the capability, i want to start with just a couple high level points before ken will get into the design details. with macy's leaving, this building does need to transform from the large single tenant department store model that it is today into a multitenant building in a way that will activate almost 360 lynn i don't remember square feet of street frontage. we also need to be able to design the building in a way that will draw interest to the upper floor so that the entire building with all 250,000 square feet can be utilized and occupied. with the design that we have, we believe this building very much has the ability to be a little bit of a catalyst that will strengthen other retail uses in union square and provide greater connection between union square and market street. beyond those, there are many other benefits to the project, including creation of a high number of construction jobs and permanent jobs, and increase an

been asking the very same question, to be frank, and perhaps i'll have adam smith or jodi from reuben junius speak to that. >> president hillis: okay. and then, this second floor, you've got a large footprint. there are large footprints to these floors, and you're obviously filling the ground floor with the proposal that that's the grocery store. what are you doing on the second floor? >> so second floor we'll have some mechanical up there. the idea is we would have eating space up there. the reason this is -- it's over i think 40,000 square feet in grand total, and we're developing the down stairs which is roughly 20,000 square feet. >> president hillis: if you take the haight street store, how big is that? [ inaudible ] >> president hillis: and so you could fit it kind of on the first floor almost of what this building is? >> yeah. and -- and i think haight's also got some office space and mechanical's upstairs, as well. and also note, somebody mentioned noe, noe's 17,000 square feet. with 24 spaces. this space is 20,000 square feet with 70 parking spaces, not an accurate comparison. the r