. >> item 8-cr, request approval of a preferred concept design for the james r. herman cruise terminal located along the embarcadero at pier 27. >> good afternoon, i am john from the planning development staff. welcome, commissioner crowley. port staff is asking for approve to initiate schematic design only for work on scheme b-2 of the cruise terminal project. this is an option that would create a new 96,000 square foot terminal building at pier 27. if approved, the design team would commence design early next month. for the last two decades, i think both of you know, the port has attempted to build a cruise terminal for the last two decades. because of various public-private partnerships primarily at pier 32, those efforts have failed. we are now trying to build a new cruise terminal and build it as a public works project so that we would finance and be the masters of our own destiny. in 2007 the mayor's blue-ribbon cruise terminal advisory panel recommended that new cruise terminal be at pier 27. since then, last july we presented to the port commission two design op