commissioner pearlman? >> commissioner pearlman: thank you. thank you for the presentations and the people who spoke about the building. i -- i wholeheartedly endorse this project. i think that despite the comments of the last two speakers, i don't think we should treat every single stick of wood and every single fragment of stucco as something precious. i think, you know, we have to bring buildings into the current times, and to me, this is an extremely modest change, with all the windows basically staying the same except the ground floor entrance. well, you can laugh, but this is just -- this is my opinion. i -- i -- you know, you characterize this as such as -- you know, an important building, and while it may be in its form, in and of itself, it's a very plain rather background type of building as warehouses typically were. there are many warehouses that are quite dramatic, and they have beautiful architectural detailing, classical detailing. this is quite flat and plain, and you know, of its time, 1917, you know, i would have expected it

commissioner pearlman? >> commissioner pearlman: i have a very minor issue. on the arc, june 6th, on page 5 near the bottom, the second paragraph, it refers to a significant work by the bay area-based world-renowned architect. bay area should probably be capitalized. pretty miner. >> president wolfram: ok. we will take public comment on the draft minutes of wednesday june 2018, and the a.r.c. on wednesday june 6th, 2018. if men beat -- any members of the public want to comment on the mission it's -- minutes, do i have a motion to cut approve the minutes? >> clerk: to adopt the minutes on amended. on that motion -- [roll call] the motion passes unanimously. 6-0. that places us on item five. commission comments and questions. >> president wolfram: commissioner perlman? >> commissioner pearlman: i want to disclose i had a conversation on item number 10 on our agenda today. >> commissioner johnck: i was going to say the same thing. i had a tour in that conversation. >> president wolfram: ok. commissioner johnck? >> commissioner johnck: i went out on an invitation

commissioner pearlman? >> commissioner pearlman: yeah. i want to thank enrique for walking me around the site this morning. it really is incredibly impressive. i just want to emphasize there is no street grid, so it is a creation of a street grid as director rahaim just talked about. this is always the tear between preservation and cost of development and what was appropriate for your times, what was appropriate 150 years ago when these things are built and how the city has expanded into these areas that were formerly just industrial and now we're creating these neighborhoods with lots of housing and needing supermarkets and other things that neighborhoods need. so i know that that's the juggling act that the project sponsor's going through. but one of the things that i mentioned this morning to enrique is so much of what we talk about as preservationists and historians is these places tell a story. they tell a story of what happened here, and just because something happened here, we evaluate it. it's an evaluation process of we think thi