. >> quen and followed by angela hamby. i am calurd quen and i am one of the owners directly across the alley from the building. in the year 2000 i bought the building and since then, i have converted it into three condos and one commercial and two residential. and actually two commercial and one residential. and we have put up with this for 23 years. my property value has dropped tremendously. and when i sold off the two condos, i lost a lot of money. people talked about how can you buy anything, across from this building, in san francisco, we have a lot of victoran buildings, the large majority of them, the facades are what are really significant. if you look at the back of the victor abuildings, they were built like cracker box and they were simple and that is the same thing in jackson square. if you look around, you will see great deal of the buildings that the bricks have been painted over in the backs and a lot them in the front. what is important about this building is the two facades on montgomery street. my buildin