and i am andy rappaport and co-founder with my wife deborah who couldn't be here of the minnesota project and andrew is the director of programs and engagement. before we tell you about us and the reason for applying for this permit and some comments on our neighborhood, i would like to thank you already for the process irrespective of the outcome of our application, this process has been really invaluable to us. we have learned a lot. the neighbors have learned a lot. we have been extremely impressed with the process itself and some of theed a vice and all the advice we have gotten from the staff, so we thank you, all, for that. it's been good. and the minnesota street project is an intervention that my wife and i created. we started back in 2014 to try to stem the outflow of visual arts from san francisco, live music venues, arts venues have been challenged by real estate prices and someone needed to do something, and we nominated ourselves. we now operate in the dog patch three buildings, 1275 minnesota, 1240 minnesota across the street and 1150 25th street on the next block south. we