this hotel has become very important to the image of loews hotels.come very important to the bottom line of loews hotels. i grew up in this hotel. since i was 12, i have been walking the corridors and the back of the house and know many of our workers who have been here since the beginning. betty: you stayed at this hotel yourself. tisch: emotionally, there is a connection. physically, there is a connection. financially, there is a connection to loews hotels, loews corporation, to the family. betty: what was the most difficult part of renovating this hotel? tisch: the challenge we faced was once we got into that building and went behind a wall, i came to the realization that my father and uncle, god bless them, did not spend a lot of money when they were building it 50 years ago. we found some conditions that made it challenging to rebuild at the pace that we were hoping to. betty: structural issues? tisch: structural. and because of super bowl, we knew that we had an end date we do not want to go beyond. we had to scramble. betty: you have spent $10

the pink tulip hotel opened here two years ago.ors are welcome to stay. ♪ the rainbow fla on their sign shows their openness to lgbt people. the flag was first used in the u.s. in the 1970s and can now be seen around the world. around 60% of the hotel's guests are gay. dutchman omni is the owner. he first came to vietnam ten years ago while working as a flight attendant and immediately fell in love with the country. he qt his job and invested all his savings and retirement funds into the hotel. >> a twin single room. >> a standard twin single room measures about 30 square meters and comes with an ensuite bathroom. it costs about $30 u.s. a night. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i think it will be, it's already like compared with to years ago, already more, and it will be more. now you see nowadays, they changed the law. i think it was 40 or 50% that gay people came to vietnam. people start to know it now as a gay friendly destination. and the big -- more, bigger tour companies, they also advertise. like to get married, gay travel

and the art series hotels in melbourne, australia. i asked daris arnoldson to partner with us to develop a financially feasible multi-year plan to meet the recommendations of the neighborhood, the lease terms of the port and support teatro zinzanni's unique cultural position. it includes housing for our after artists and the hotel, restaurant and lounge, serving as our lobby and open public park, backstage areas, built into the area and office space and our teatro zinzanni tent, which we'll put in a glass gazebo much like in a hotel and it will be entirely glass to the backstage quarters in the show will be completely transparent to people walking along the emweekend, embarcadero. this combination made it possible to return with a 66-year lease. i want to thank the neighborhood groups we met with over the last two years who demonstrated their support for the project and a willingness to stay with us during the next design phase and barbary coast neighborhood association, telegraph hill dwellers, chinatown community development, north

we have nearly 5000 hotels now.an target brands towards individuals and make brands sufficiently different. what we have really focused on is making them different. ualuxe identified a gap in the market, something they could not get. time ashed at the same a brand in america focusing around wellness. if you target a brand, some people will not like it, but the people who do will be very loyal, regular visitors and pay more. richard, i just want to get to some of your finances. revenue holding up in a different segment? >> we do not give future forecasts. but if you look at our 2014 results, we have seen strong growth around the world. the u.s. is our biggest market. china, growth is lower, but we all -- opened new rooms. is that the sign of a slowdown, in your view? if you strip out the new rooms. >> a bit of a slowdown. for us last year, revenue grew 9.5%. with new supply, the number will be lower. gdp growth is still higher in china than a lot of other markets. we remain very positive about china. , across thehard

cm louis, hotel and restaurant workers union 2. i appreciate and you are quite right to ask the tough questions about a sole-source. you are going to hear in public comment the reasons that this project is quite exceptional. i just want to put this from our perspective: what is most critical here? as you know for almost two decades, the city has required to developers on their lands to protect the fiduciary interest of the city through labor piece agreements. this project goes way above and beyond this. the developer approached our union with the intent and idea of negotiating an agreement that guaranteed good quality jobss and not just this project, but every project that they develop nationwide going forward. and from our perspective, that really drives home the level of commitment that they have to making this project exactly the kind of project that the port needs more of. the kind of project that brings not just jobs, but good-quality, living-wage jobs, to portlands, which have traditionally been the center of good quality liv

they do have a, they have one hotel, it could be two hotels with elevators. so if they have a room we can ask them. >> okay. you also mentioned that you have a doctor and psych nurse practitioner and nurse that travel around. do you have a van that you use to go around? >> we have four vans. they can be in vans. we are mostly on the streets. the vans are used to take you somewhere to whatever the district is. >> are prescriptions written and is medicine dispensed and is a nar can available. >> the coalition? >> right. >> great, we know that's badly needed and when people appear to be sweeping, it could mean something else. >> right. >> okay, that's it for me. >> any other questions from the council before i turn it over to staff? okay. staff, do you have any questions or comments? thank you. >> so the comment that you made about the stabilization rooms being used for extremely. i'm not sure if i understood correctly. the stabilization room doesn't exist anymore as a model. now the stabilization takes place in a shelter environment? >> we enough shelter bedded

the program receives funding from hotel tax revenue. approximately 80 milgian in city wide funding for arts programs is dedicated in fiscal year 2013 and 14 and 11.8 million is dedicated to grants the arts in 2013, 14. funding in 2014' 15. 3.5 to 3.9 percent of hotel tax revenue. through the glants fl arts the program aim tooz provide reliable source of fund toogorts organizations in the city. it receives 30 to 40 applications from new oreg organizations and 5 to 15 are funded. grants for the arts doesn't have funding for unrepresented groups nor does it have a definition of unrepresented. as a result we had to propose a definition of underrepresented. other definitions could have been usedthality would have yulded different result. grants for had arts were classified as representing a racial gender or ethnic minority or labeled predomnenly white thmpt critearier used are the back grounds of staff and the organization mission. there was special cases such as sf jz when chis multiracial. the [inaudible] balas was african american and gro

since 1961 the hotel tax fund identified 12 different areas of fundsing. in 20s 13 we as a borebd changed that funding mechanism. from my understanding from reading through the 25 year history it is about 17 percent of the hotel fund chs going to grants for the arts something like that and think the budget and legislative analyst report i think it is good it broke out the racial and ethnic groups including jewish and arab and middle eastern groups in a second call squm the percentage to women in lgbtq communities. as supervisor yee pointed out, the decline of 29 percent in the late 90's is of serious concern. supervisor breed worked with tom declaina and [inaudible] to insure there will be more money that-when more money came in it goes to cultural equity, but think that was a reason for-we'll see better numbers for 2014 to now. the decline of percentage to ethnic and cultural or decline for women in lgbt arts groups is a concern of mine as well >> supervisor yee any other comments >> wonder if there are questions for [inaudible] or mrs. nagle i see none.

guests are we have people from all over the world that want to stay in the neighborhood rather than a hotel i provide them a book of noah valley muse i'd be able to maintain and put my money into my hundred plus victorian throughout history older widows retired from rented out broadly house my grandparents did it please don't add another disengage to the low income nona melkonian folks trying to maintain pg&e and water and trash is so many higher than a few years it was a hundred and 20 percent it was not that much income to begin with i hope you'll do the right thing and allow me to host around guests in my home thank you. >> thank you, scott and your welcome. >> please. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon my name is gene i am with the corruptive and borden of the tenderloin in san francisco i'm sure you've seen the first page the chairman showing the tactics of our mayor who the taxpayer wanted to vote the way she wanted to and him and his airbnb ron conway wanted her to this doesn't help with the lack of faith only the rare opportunity to prove yourselves to the static to prove you are be

but when he arrived at the hotel, there was no reservation on record and the hotel was sold out.called his credit card company on the information on the charge he knew he paid months before. >> american express immediately said, well here's an order that was placed for you. >> reporter: but it wasn't the hilton. it was a motel. turns out the reservation was made through a third party company named reservation counter. the hilton was apologetic and found him a room at one of their sister properties but it was several blocks away. >> as a result i spent more time walking, et cetera than i needed to. and less time at the different programs. >> reporter: mary ann is the spokesperson for the american hotel and lodging association. >> with the hotel industry is really concerned about is booking sites that are using a variety of marketing tactics to make it seem like you're at the direct hoelth booking site. >> reporter: this is exactly what happened to joel. >> they'll use the hotel's logo they'll use pictures, they'll use maps. >> reporter: joel tried to dispute the hotel charges thro

o small businesses throughout san francisco if the home sharers is hotel so is the million dollars goes into our neighborhood and loophole business home sharers is a cut back to fount economy impacts please consider a business owner communities in making our constitution on this thursday and day after julian. >> thank you very much i know you folks i didn't call your names we're going to have to start from the top sir, was your name called i'm trying to get out of here we have a whole bunch of people that want to speak the folks that submitted their cards no one is better or one is more important dennis are you still here i saw you earlier he had to leave i'm sorry to hear that sarah are you still here what about roger phycology and quinton are you still here you're next after roger karen are you here? all right. teresa >> please come on up susan okay katherine and eric can gabriel is that you katherine all right. roger skoolt. >> good afternoon. i'm roger skoolt i'm overlook teacher at san francisco city college and proud resident of this increasing city of constrictions and on the exe

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you might try booking your hotel rooms online. >> a lot of people will do it that way.venient. but it might not be the best most secure way to get the room you want. >> 7 on your side's michael finney is here. >> reporter: joe wide of rohnert park booked his hotel room six months in advance. >> i knew that the hotels would completely fill up for this particular convention. >> reporter: he needed a room close to the convention. >> because of my medical problems i really needed to not have to walk very far. >> reporter: the hilton anaheim hotel adjoins the anaheim convention center. he found what he thought was the phone number for the hotel online. >> i specifically asked is this hilton? >> they said it was their reservation desk. but when he arrived at the hole p there was no reservation on record and the hotel was sold out. joel didn't have a confirmation number but called his credit card company for information on the charge. he knew he had paid months before. >> american express immediately said, well here's an order that was placed for you. >> reporter: but it wasn'

relied on we've estimated that the total value of including multiplier effects of the visitor and hotel spends worked out to $276 per hosting day a it's a per day as a unit a full unit is occupied in san francisco on the other side the cost associated with the risk of higher housing our report is taken starts with the priemgsz from the planning department that the current ordinance on enforceable and this creates an incentive in our view for a unit to be taken off the market entirely for short-term rental on a full-time basis if that is the case a unit is teen off the horse trailer the loss to the city's economy is 2 hundred and 50 thoitsdz thoughts were unit because of the higher rents everyone is paying and also the indirect loss associated with that we see both sides of the economic benefits of the accommodating more short-term rental to get the hosts to spend the hotel tax traded off migrants romantic risk that a cap is too high could create an incentive to take a rental office the market if the incentive exists to take that it is negative of used for a short-term rental everyday of

but when he arrived at the hotel, there was no reservation on record and the hotel was sold out. have a confirmation number called his credit card company on the information on the charge he knew he paid months before. >> american express immediately said, well here's an order that was placed for you. >> reporter: but it wasn't the hilton. it was a motel. turns out the reservation was made through a third party company named reservation counter. the hilton was apologetic and found him a room at one of their sister properties but it was several blocks away. >> as a result i spent more time walking, et cetera than i needed to. and less time at the different programs. >> reporter: mary ann is the spokesperson for the american hotel and lodging association. >> with the hotel industry is really concerned about is booking sites that are using a variety of marketing tactics to make it seem like you're at the direct hoelth booking site. >> reporter: this is exactly what happened to joel. >> they'll use the hotel's logo they'll use pictures, they'll use maps. >> reporter: joel tried to di

trying to rent out the whole building is not equitable and noted fair to the business owners that own hotels that pay the tax they need to pay who wish obeying all the regulations we needed full enforcement and other for the loss of our residential housing during the rental crisis the regulations that supervisor campos is suggesting their simple regulars not something that is inappropriate for the government to enforce, in fact we need good regulations to help push back against people making money against the country just. >> few weeks ago hundreds of people at city hall urging the city laying out lawmakers? our opportunity to do something it is a chance to do something right by your community advertised 123409 going to solve everything but a smaller important piece to the puzzles puzzle there are people environmental impact tenants - >> thank you arrest hello, i'm here to right a letter on behalf of alex i've been a san franciscan for 7 and a half years and small business for 2 and a half i own a hiking company we take people from all over the world on hillary clinton tours i'm writing as a

some that wish 2 hundred or over didn't mean someone can't come in on night 2 hundred and 75 but a hotel for example is 80 percent occupied so you know we can breakdown that way another way we can look at we know that 5 hundred of the hosts are studying the minimum 365 days that's a help that sounds like an ongoing business and lemon be clear in my question of the naubz that thought number of commercial unites that you have identified of that number do you know or have a sense of what percentage have actual residents living there or versus what percentage have nots toil residents living there. >> right no, we don't have that information. >> okay. so we don't - so when we talk about the number of short-term rentals you express it as the percentage of the total number of vacant units in the city and have internal debates we have x number of vacancies according to our report somewhere between 26 and 29 perished of the vacant units are commercial short-term rentals. >> right so i think in terms of your question there could be a taint or might not be a tenant when the earnings steady what the

they know nothing about what is gong it is vuvenlg you have to stand in front of a hotel. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> the last person to turn in a speaker card. >> hi ken with the san francisco cab drivers director reiskin was on the kqed newsroom and was asked my muni on time performances is so far blow mandated goals and cited schedule and maintenance and antiquated street design didn't mentioned traffic gridlock caused by thousands of tmcs i also see dpreblg tmcs lined up at bus stops and then double-parked next to those cars for the mission 14 bus to cross across the lines to get around the triple parked tmcs there are so many traffic infrastructure not only this year causing gridlock but epidemic of u-turns in the middle of the block and bicycle lanes, etc. and i understand regulation of tmcs is not in our jurisdictions but controlling the streets i believe is and in a number of ways i want to see that sort of thing thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> (calling names) those are the last two speakers. >> guarantee good afternoon. i'm

says 14 people were killed after gunmen attacked a hotel in the gas get can -- a hotel in the afghan capital. reporter: a bloody end to a standoff that lasted for hours overnight. an unknown number of assailants opened fire inside the park palace guesthouse in central kabul were crowds of foreigners and afghans were having dinner and attending a concert. translator: we heard firing while we were praying. it was like raining bullets. we did not know what was happening. as we came out we saw security forces army and intelligence forces arriving at the scene. reporter: afghan security forces engaged in a firefight with the attackers. police said those responsible were killed and more than 50 hostages rescued. translator: our teams are investigating this incident because neither the main gate nor the guide at the hotel were attacked. the attack was started from inside the hotel. reporter: on thursday morning the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. it frequently targets restaurants and hotels popular with foreigners. the siege came as nato said it became a military presence aft

airbnb spokeswoman david owen stated every month airbnb pace a little bit over one million dollar in hotel taxes and every month the host makes between 5 hundred and one thousand dollars that same day in the morning he put-down out a statement on the website saying the will average host makes more than one thousand dollars each month. and he put out a previous statement the same thing april 19th well i did not see the whole page i've got to tell you there's no mathematical system ♪ universe where those two numbers live together if you're doing one thousand dollars a month as a host in san francisco the most of the tax that airbnb is paying is close to 7 hundred in you're getting one million dollars in tax each host is making over $18,000 take everything airbnb says - >> thank you. >> is there another speaker that wants to comment on that andrew is that you, please come on up. >> i work with the san francisco tenants union born and raised in san francisco it is indeed ironic as supervisor campos said as supervisor wiener and supervisor farrell championed a rhetoric of push back of the provi

hit the hotel, stopped there and then where did you go?carlos'n and charlie's. >> no one at the bar was any help so they returned to the holiday inn. >> the hotel manager was great and trying to figure who this guy was. she actually came up with his name. we had part of it and she finished it for us the sleuth. vander absolute on the camera. when they got there beth stayed in the car. >> car door was open and joran and police were all talking until and english. >> native dialect. >> yes. >> did joran ever say anything? >> yes, he did. >> what did he say? >> it got heated because he was actually talking about what sexual activity he was engaging in with natalee in the backseat of the car. >> he said that then? >> absolutely. >> in june of 2005, beth told me about the first time she came face to face with van absolute. >> i set i want my daughter. >> he threw his head back and chest and said what do you want me to do? what do you want me to do? >> i remember the phone being on speaker phone and just hearing beth's voice. and like that was wh

kimberly: the hotel offered to move them to the jefferson hotel.d like the omni to cover the cost of the inconvenience. 7 on your side called the general manager and e-mailed the staff. a contract signed in october stipulates any changes have to be approved by both parties. >> we are being treated like we are no one because we are not the billion dollar company. kimberly: which brings us to the redskins. there spokesman immediately called back 7 on your side. you did not even know they had been bumped from the ballroom? because of the richmond-based training camp, they have an eight year deal with the hotel. the schedule starts a week later this year. the tell said they accidentally double booked. but he is not done trying to make his future wife's wedding dreams come true. >> there is nothing i won't do to see her happy. kellye: the omni richmond's g.m. said when the redskins contract was enforced by the team, he immediately re-staffed and offered to pay for part of the reception elsewhere. the redskins do apologize to the couple and have offered

keith this hotel opened in 1908. : about that time productivity began. it was that activity that moved it from nothing to an agricultural center. and motivated the locals, the bryans particularly to say that , we need to get organized. because, surprising to me, for 15 years all of these farmers around here, everybody functioned without local authority. any established local authority. they just worked together. they respected each other. flag stranahan, as the storekeeper, kept the books, cashed credit. it was not even a bank. when philemon bryan came in he came in with a teenage son. then a banker arrived, 16 years old, tom bryan. he liked to work in jacksonville, then he went to college. that was unusual for that day. tom had an older brother in school when he and his father were first here. timothy tom and his brother were : the ones that put together the area afterwards. they started the newspaper, the bank, they started all kinds of things in the area. one son was the thinker, one that was the doer. they had a lot of fun doing things because there

quiets they took of our house and brought up the mail and they like staying there instead of the hotels because of the parks next year i'm rent italy out we'll have two kids attend college and 50 years tuition it will be difficult for my family we live in a comprehensive city so while earning more money awhile anothers to pay bills we're countered high other persons and don't qualify for financial aids mr. and mrs. please help us we're not taking hosting away from the city we rent our homes assisting the family homeowners to rent out conflicting the real challenge is my - >> thank you you almost got by me. >> next speaker. >> jeff and i'm not jeff. >> oh, nationally i can't i live with my girlfriend we live is a two-bedroom apartments and rent the second bedroom for 10 months i'm standing in front of you not to put a cap on the number of days not rent but list our second bedroom onion airbnb the first reason is affordability we won't be able to go n live in the city if we can't list on airbnb for most of the year second and san francisco is a wonderful place to live we want to live here

a inform resident i encourage my friends and families to stay at average i'm sure you're aware of hotels are concentrated in neighbors i want my friends and family to stay in my neighborhood and want them to experience san francisco from a local prospective and experience is organic for those reasons as a community member neighborhoods and concerns for citizens without financial incentives please not cap and restrict out my neighbors how they share their homes. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'd like to call the next 10 speakers to come up fernando are you still here. >> yep. >> (calling names). >> you guys put in more than one card someone else put it in for you. >> you guys quite being tricky. >> what is this lawrence swanson and jamie thank you katherine. >> i am a registered shoermentd host i own my home and rent out a guest home hundred of hosts are publicly come forward city registered with the city and to pay the taxes that airbnb has been doing i exclusively list on averaging airbnb we did so in gooith good faith that the promoter that was approved

hotel. this is where he pulled out this plastic bag. and he opens it up and takes out this pair of shoes. and i look at those shoes and i think oh, my gosh, what a horrible color. it is like this tan color. and i just think, what on earth am i going to wear with this. what is going to match this. there was no strap in the back. i don't like the sound they make when i wear them. the shoes were just a bad thing all together. i'm thinking about these shoes and there must be something in them. but i didn't pay too much attention to that. i just pushed it aside. i go shower. i change. c.j. tells me that once i got mauritius, he would come and have a friend pick the shoes up for me. he gave me a sim card. he gave me dollars as well. and i'm on my way. once i got to the airport, c.j. took my bag out of the car. and then he kissed me on the cheek. he said, have a nice time and i will see you soon. i'm quite away from him. the strain is getting to me. it's a little bit edgey. i did phone my sister to

it has been a market running at almost full occupancy i hotels. -- by hotels. every time we have looked at a new resort open over the last several years, we had surges and revenue growth over the following six quarters. significant revenue growth. case is the same thing happens here with galaxy and studio city. there is a clustering effect that helps them and everybody else. rishaad: what could go wrong. bearus the their case -- case. >> the biggest factor on the bear side of the argument is timing. this is coming when you have anticorruption, spurring and aversion to conspicuous consumption. a smoking ban that hit the mass market and is likely to extend to the ip. you talk about stock markets program, that is a frenzy for some chinese right now. those are issues. for galaxy specifically, it is a question of, is this enough? it is not a brand-new big thing like studio city. all in all, those are some of the key issues. rishaad: [indiscernible] there may go. that is an invite to this afternoon's opening. >> enjoy it. rishaad: up next, taking puppy love to new le