thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners gladstone. i want to thank mary woods for the comprehensive staff report and i'd like to thank the members of the project team, d pack patel and his staff member bruce berge and architects from sternburg david ball and david sternburg who you have just seen in the case before. the building in question as was said, it was originally at 1954 building called the c captain motel and it was notorious for its illegal activities. d-pack's family took it over and changed it to what you see here today. the building was built in the 50s when the use of cars exploded and the interstate transportation system was being complete and for that reason, you see a lot of motels up and down lumbar street. however, with the decline of the motels, both physically and in other ways, what we haven't seen is the expected change of changing motels into hotels. several attempts were made in the past 3 years to do that. i worked on one. in both of them, the hotels were approved. in 1 case, unanimously by your commission bu