my name is fran weld, senior vice president development for the san francisco giants. happy to be here today with my team, jack, john, jillian, roscoe. and a particular, you know, thank you supervisor kim for all of your hard work since the beginning, sponsoring with the late mayor lee, and seeing this through a long road. and president breed for your energies in keeping this project really moving forward. during a time of transition and we are thrilled to be here today. i wanted to just touch on today some of the key financial aspects of mission rock that we have worked hard to structure our deal with the port around. and i think there is an overarching theme around self-sufficiency and sustainability in the financial structure that we have -- that we have negotiated with the port. becca mentioned the phasing aspect of the project where the park is delivered up front, and there's a combination of residential and office buildings brought into each phase. this mix of uses i think also helps to address potentially some of the delay concerns supervisor kim was raising, ea

thanks, fran. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. miss weld. >> thank you, carly. we've been working with the port community leaders and many different city agencies for close to ten years on envisioning what the future of this part of the central waterfront will be. as you know, it's a surface parking lot today, located in an area of the city which carly well described as being an investment in area transportation planning. we hope to built on that investment and create a really robust transit oriented development with a wide mix of uses along this part of the waterfront. we have 28 acres total so i'll talk you a little bit of what the different uses of that are. eight acres are parks and open space. that's a very important component to the port and our neighborhood, which has some of the lowest percapita ratio of parks to the city, so we're contributing to our neighborhoods, park needs, in addition to the entire southern bay front's park needs by actually over delivering with those eight acres of open space. the scale of the project has been broken-down substanti

thanks, fran. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. miss weld. >> thank you,

speaking of smart and talented people, i'd like to introduce my colleague, fran weld, who will drill down on a couple of additional points. >> ic concur with that comment. thank you, supervisor kim, madam chair. we're really happy to be here with you today. we wanted to just touch on some of the design aspects that make mission rock so unique within the city of san francisco. jack mentioned the views that we have from the grand park to the center square, and what we've done with our design team, including urban planners, transportation experts, landscape architects is to make sure that the streets and the buildings themselves actually help to enhance the design of those parks. each of our streets will have a slightly different feel, depending on the location within mission rock and particularly at the ground floor. we spent a lot of time looking at the ground floor design, and it was really enlightening to listen to the discussion that preceded around retail because we -- [ inaudible ] we commissioned a neighborhood study that actually went and looked at the best of streets in san fr

. >> my name is fran weld, i'm senior vice president of development for the giants delighted to be with you all today. thank you for having me. the foundation of our planning process has been rooted in public space and creating 8 acres of parks and open space. this network will connect a neighborhood to the waterfront. china basin park by you see here will benefit the entire east side of the city and be a central gathering place for all of san francisco to come enjoy the waterfront. mission rock square will be a vibrant urban center park with buildings fronting the park. so as to create a safe and walkable pedestrian and neighborhood experience. with its small scale walkable blocks, wide sidewalks, and network of bicycle paths, mission rock is designed to be a center for neighborhood serving retail, which will support n