the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on

sarah phillips here from workforce economic development. these partners made this work happen and our private partners, we could not hope for better partners in the san francisco giants who are our home team, who care about san francisco and are totally dedicated to this place, and to tischman-[indiscernible] what a successful collaboration. finally to the community. i remember when corrine woods demanded this park be built in phase 1 and i was someone who said, never, not that financially makes no sense, please fight with her on that and she was right and the right decision to deliver it the park. thank you corrine and thank you to the community. it is my pleasure to introduce our next speaker who emphasized the importance keeping this work going during covid. imagine this was built post-pandemic, the first project to rise from the ashes that. she kept this work going, demanded our city departments work together. she marshaled resources for this. she is insuring our waterfront is safe, clean and viberant to welcome all san francisco reside

we're going to hear first from our, director of office of economic and workforce development, sarah phillips and then we'll go to the current state of union square with our city's economist, ted egan, the i will go back to sarah dennis phillips about an update on macy's, we'll talk about some union square initiatives, and that will be jacob bintliff and rachel tanner. and then we'll have some closing remarks from our director, again, and then we'll hand it over to the united food and commercial workers. and the impact on workers, jim irby and tony vargas from local five, we also have an attendance and available for questions, as i said, the ceo of the union square alliance, marissa rodriguez, matt green from dbi, department deputy director for inspections, christine gersbach from dbi government affairs, carl nicita from sfpd government affairs. and lieutenant dean hall, my guy, he and i had a he and i hadn't had a near incident the other day, not he and i, but he intervened. he he intervened. and i want to just say i want to put a big plug into having a foot beat officers and officers presen

this is very exciting, thank you to every one who made this policy and i'll turn it to sarah dennis phillips with office of workforce gement. development. >> thank you for allowing this to happen. thank you mayor breed. thank you robby [indiscernible] harrington, [indiscernible] these are people that will move these things forward and that's what real economic development looks like, including local business moving forward. we are so excited to take this next step on this part of mayor breed road map to san francisco future:downtown of arts cultural and night life. this is happening on the heels of two programs launched last week, sf live where we have a great line up of outdoor concerts and fee wavers which allows more night markets and festivals and things happening all the time in downtown san francisco. this week at the entertainment commission hosted a night life entertainment summit where we talked how we can move these folks forward, and here we are today talking about two really important moves. this proposed entertainment zone will pilot a idea long in the making opening downtown st

now we are going to hear from sarah dennis phillips the executive director of the office of economic and workforce development. thanks, sarah. >> hi, everyone. thanks for having me here. san francisco's night life sector has been critical to our city's economy. prepandemic night life generated sick billion in economic impact and employed 64,000. we know you are facing real challenges today. according to the controller's office the hospitality sector remains down over 20,000 jops from the peek of 64,000 compared to before the pandemic. our goal being present here today is to learn from you how we can return to but grow that level impact in the future. make no mistake, your work is vital to the recovery of downtown and all our neighborhoods even the sunset. your venues, bars, upon events and festivals have been one of the big evaluate reasons people come to san francisco not just to visit but live and work. san francisco is changing and adapt nothing ways after the pandemic the importance of night life has not changed. that night experience matters more than ever. residents and visitors

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development.welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development.k you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. we have seen a

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sarah phillips here from workforce economic development.appen and our private partners, we could not hope for better partners in the san francisco giants who are our home team, who care about san francisco and are totally dedicated to this place, and to tischman-[indiscernible] what a successful collaboration. finally to the community. i remember when corrine woods demanded this park be built in phase 1 and i was someone who said, never, not that financially makes no sense, please fight with her on that and she was right and the right decision to deliver it the park. thank you corrine and thank you to the community. it is my pleasure to introduce our next speaker who emphasized the importance keeping this work going during covid. imagine this was built post-pandemic, the first project to rise from the ashes that. she kept this work going, demanded our city departments work together. she marshaled resources for this. she is insuring our waterfront is safe, clean and viberant to welcome all san francisco residents and visitors. brave and visi

welcome to sarah dennis phillips, executive director of san francisco's office of economic and workforce development. thanks for being with us, sarah. thanks so much for having me. of course. so newest numbers i can find show that last year, downtown san francisco saw about two thirds of what it was doing before the pandemic in 2019. from your view, what's the state of downtown san francisco? we're we're still in recovery, you know, our our downtown activity rates and the numbers you cite actually saw the biggest gain from 2022 to 2023, 2023 was a year of strong recovery for us of more people coming downtown, of more people spending more time in the office, that said, we were starting from a pretty low point nationally, we've been very vulnerable because of our strength in the tech sector and the ability of those sectors to work from home, i think as you mentioned, we're also continuing to see a lot of bright spots, and we saw a number of those bright spots last week where we are, where mayor breed's efforts under her roadmap to san francisco's future are bringing reasons for people to b

so i want to say thank you to sarah dennis phillips and katie tang from d and the office of small business, respectively, together with their respective staffs, thank you to the neighborhood stakeholders and advocates who have been patient but persistent in their advocacy. we especially scott rowett's, executive director for the yerba buena community benefit district. raquel diaz, executive director of soma pilipinas. and manuel rodriguez, a noted purveyor of deliciousness at bonchon and more recently, izzy and wicks, which i would encourage everyone to visit at 155 fourth street, once again, chair chan, i can't thank you enough for your leadership on this and the work that your staff has done. this is it really is appreciated. your your commitment to our downtown core and the challenges that the yerba buena community is facing. so thanks so much. thank you, supervisor dorsey. and with that, today we have, office of economic and workforce development here making the presentation. thank you. thank you. supervisor dorsey. and good morning to you all, thank you for the opportunity to present

sarah for counting the cost. well, joining us now from violating is muhammad overlays if i'm a good and he is a professor of economics of them, at least at the phillips university, taught ma bug muhammad, welcome 1st stop. what do you make of this new round of sanctions against the wrong? on the new or on the sanction reduce the risk, simply decided in the us government after eat on the knees. dry company is aiming to basic you restrict even further. you don't in order to exports, especially to the chinese customers. however, as you also showed in your report in china and very much it benefiting from the receiving boys from you on that, no other sanction county such as i see i'm a save the mediums of dollars discounts and the much of the, the oil explore to, to to china or not to, to the office. your child is the so called dark fleet. those dark shipping lines basically all engage the part of the shaggy economy of 3, the or a and it is quite difficult with the us government to trace the, these, it basically in form are trading the boy between your, in china and a from technical perspective where one can say the significance of his stature causing dad

sarah lancashire winning best actress and happy valley. there were also special awards for daytime tv institution lorraine kelly and baroness floella benjamin. >> well, let's bring in showbiz reporter ellie phillipsn between. good morning. lovely to see you , i morning. lovely to see you, i personally was thrilled to see sarah lancashire win big last night. happy valley feels like a million years ago since it was on but really deserved winner there. her her portrayal of that sort of. i don't know how you'd describe that copper sort of just really tough female role that she played was phenomenal. yeah. >> and she got very emotional when she accepted the award at the end, the last award of the night, she was thrilled by it, but surprisingly, oh , happy but surprisingly, oh, happy valley only walked away with two awards. i think people were expecting it to win more than that, but having said that, i think it was quite a good night in terms of a mix of awards, because i think the most boring thing about awards is when they, they go on, they happen, and absolutely everyone is predicted to win wins and you're like, okay, that well, that was that actually last night. what happened was that the crown, wh