. >> good afternoon, president fong, commissioners, my name is john murdock. i'm a shipping receiver at the ferry building. i'm a foodie. obviously everyday all day i love to talk about food and cooking and whether it cooks who work in the ferry billion, -- building, around the city. it's just a wonderful experience working there especially with the proposed building. with the cooking classes. i can't tell you how powerful that is and how much it's going to make a difference. thank you so much. >> good afternoon commissioners, my name is marco williams, i'm a veteran of the union street commercial district for 29 years. having done a lot of projects on union street and a lot of reports for you. i would like to report that by the way, the union street association asked me to be here on their behalf. i have done a consensus study recently on the relationship of formula retail use to small businesses in close proximity. it seem on union street most of the merchants there, the consensus is that we have an appropriate mix of formula retail use and it works for us a