i'm the design director for this project with gensler architecture. so this project is truly about retail in union square, and what a great opportunity to do such a project in our hometown, in our back yard, the city where we were founded. so we look at the existing building. it's a building that was built in a different era for a different use. it worked then, it doesn't work so well now. our goal is to turn this building inside out, so we want to move from a single tenant multilevel building to a mixed use multitenant building that brings new focus to the district. and a big focus for us is how the architecture can support viable upper level retail. the retail landscaping is changing and evolving. this project is about supporting and planning for that, so much so that the experts at gensler hosted a sort of interdisciplinary panel six monthsing with folks from across the city and industry to gain more insight into how to plan for this project. being in union square, the design team spent a lot of time in the area. we sought out inspirational example

at the same time, i hope -- and gensler has enough experience in large scale, that the construction of this building which will be disruptive to further add to some form of obstruction in that corridor will be done in a manner that it minimally impacts the rest of the functioning and the revitalization of the street. i believe we discussed it in our own deliberations that the decline of activity on that street had a lot to do with how the central subway was handled, which was highly disruptive and made it an extremely uncomfortable state to shop and despite the stores we all love to shop and support, such as neiman marcus, just to pick one name here. i think in -- that the interim controls that come from supervisor peskin's office are sensitive. i think they somehow build on the additional conditions that miss hester is asking us for, and i strongly support that we continue to understand projects like this in the context of interim controls and hopefully ultimately sense it before permanent controls. the one issue i would like to ask, and i do not have any metrics, and i do not even kn

>> gensler, i wanted to ask about the iran nuclear deal.t heard president trump say the country will not be deal,ng at three nuclear you can bank on it. if you fear the u.s. backs out, ?hey will start nuclearization your the second european union leader to stop at the white house this week. what improvements did you recommend to the president that need to be changed to keep the u.s. and the deal? -- in the deal. i set up myerkel: position, which is i believe that this agreement is anything but perfect. it will not solve all of the problems with iran. it is one building block that we can build up a structure with. kingdom, france, and germany work together with the american colleagues, this was brought about. we now want to see what decisions are made by americans and their partners. the whole of the region is of prime importance to us, because that is 1000 kilometers away, and just not the case between u.s. and syria. syria and iran are countries that are right on our doorstep. ,hat is prime importance to us and we will continue to be in cl