thank you, president laguana and commissioners for your time and consideration. for another planet renovation plans of the castro theatre. i want to thank the commission and office of small business for your support of venn use throughout the city during the pandemic. i'm joined by mary or senior vice president and dan our vp of business a faris. another planet is a local, inspect small business employing 50 full time staff. thank you for this opportunity. in january of this year we announced a partnership with the ordinance of the castro theatre that another planet would assume operations of the theater. we will share a video highlighting who we are, the challenges this historic and renovation plans. we have been engaging with community members supervisor mandelman and local merchants and more since our announcement. there are concerns to be discussd and worked on we hear support from community members including neighboring merchants. supporting of ad a and queer youth. a clothe of ours visited and 75 merchants were supportive of plans. an active, tloifing and v

thank you commissioner laguana for your participation in that around what they're seeing on the ground, how they are thinking, the needs, solutions what is working and continue to be a big challenge and lastly we have a covid-downtown covid economic analysis project that is about to kick-off later in august, which should give us real data around what changed during covid. and a survey effort that will ask people in real time about how they are using, how they are bringing people back and how they want to use the core and that's for both employers and for office workers. those three projects together are just us trying to get the best sort of perspective and information around what is happening that we can, but we are also and now in the near term because we cant wait for all of that to conclude before we start acting, also really focused on driving foottraffic back to the core as quickly and as much as possible and bringing foot traffic to the businesses in particular that have been waiting for 3 years to have their numbers resume. and so-and so, a lot of that is around like for office