it begins with the transbay redevelopment plan. both the transbay redevelopment plan and the planning department's 2012 transit center district plan detail the open space improvements for the transbay district. the 2006 streetscape and open space plan envisioned plans under the bus plan -- ocii hired c.m.g. in 2011 to design transbay improvement, which the folsom street project, which the commission approved construction for in june, but also to design under ramp park. now ocii desires -- [inaudible] >> the park will be just under 2.5 acres in size and is located exclusively under the new bus ramp servicing the transbay transit center. it will serve district residents, commuters, office workers and visitors. the project includes many amenities, including a large dog park, protected bike and pedestrian paths, sports courts, relaxation spaces, and casual dining. the design team has completed a draft schematic design for the park, and after that was finalized, i will be back before the commission this winter to request approval. betwe

and transbay streetscape improvements. it supports a variety of projects ranging from public infrastructure, market rate, inclusionary, and stand-alone, affordable housing. overall, projects reported good s.b.e. participation. it was well over ocii's goal of 50%, achieving 56%. for professional services, s.b.e. reached near 90%, exceeding the prior period of 82% in december, 2017. on an accumulated basis, the overall s.b.e. credit is 30.2%, increase of .4% from the prior period. notably it's well above the goal of 50%, reaching nearly 61.1%. participation figures showed a favorable improvement over the prior six months, achieving 28.2%. when assessing the past three years of activity an an aggregated basis, professional service has increased. 1.2% for professional services and .2 for construction. please note that the construction trend lines dropped in 2016 and 2017 because s.b.e. participation was challenged when $1 billion in contracts were committed during the two periods for four significant tower-structures and two h

the original transbay terminal and the study. that was 25 years ago. goodness me. and then and then the commission adopted the improvement plan to the transbay terminal in 2001. here it is. it has a weird roof on it. it does not have a beautiful park. something must have happened in the design phases. but when you look at this thing and who signed off on it, mayor, willie brown, 2001. your fingers were in every pie. anyway. [laughter] >> that's not in the script. >> that is in my purse. anyway. [laughter] >> anyway, all of you out there have done well. i speak to you collectively as citizens. you have put your hands in your pockets and you voted at the ballot box and as m.p.c., we also, this is the part i am supposed to say since 2004, m.p.c. has granted more than $350 million in voter approved bridge toll funds to the salesforce transit centre and provided $100 million in other financing to close, a funding gap. here we are. this is good to. this is great. but the guy whose remarks i was listening to today was assembly member to. because we are talking about the f

described in the feir and its addendum for purposes of the california environmental quality act transbay redevelopment project area (discussion and action) (resolution no. 28-2018) >> this item before you today is approval of extension and increase i and project with cmg and we engaged them since 2011 -- in addition public works has been engaged to do construction management oversight on the project so in addition to approving expansion of the project and amount to cmg will include the fulton street improvement project. with that shane heart will lead the discussions and i think we have a representative from public works as well and the audience will follow. >> good afternoon chair mondejar, my name is shane hart. we are here to discuss the funding of the fulton street improvement product construction in trans bay. the agenda taos a today we are combining agenda items 5a and 5b. i will first present the proposed third amendment to the contract with cmg who is the designer of the fulsom project and then they will present the final design and then we will have a representative from dpw com

and the chairman of the transbay joint powers authority board of directors. on behalf of our board, i want to welcome you to the salesforce transit centre and the salesforce park. i will also be introducing you today to our masters of ceremony. the former mayor, willie brown, in a few moments to begin the program. before that, i want to start by personally thanking all of you for coming. you have been waiting for this day for a long time. you all received a commemorative pin and that is our official opening date. august 11th, 2018. that is eight years to the date of the actual groundbreaking for the center. four years ago, i had the honor of being appointed to the tjpa board by mayor ed lee. i have watched this project, weather at challenging times and come together and exceed our expectations. the salesforce transit centre is the true regional partnership designed to help bay area commuters get to and from their destinations. it also will become a destination all over town with beautiful gardens, and out court -- outdoor amphitheater, public arts, and the ch

the brand new 2 billion dollar transbay transit center will face its first big test....ll brave the weekday morning commute into in downtown san francisco. (justine) the new hub for all major bus systems that connect the city to the rest of the bay area..... got ready today for monday's morning commute rush.kron4 's ella sogomonian joins us live from the new transit hub... ella how are people reacting to this new downtown addition? it's been 8 years in the making - the new transbay transit center is now officially open to bay area commuters just keep in mind today they only have 3 lines operating today...so make your way out here between mission and howard and beale and 2nd streets. you're looking at the new major transit hub in downtown san francisco that is home to 11 transportation systems that include both buses and eventually trains.on sunday doors opened to commuters riding three lines: muni,c transit, and golden gate transit.sot: marzena fuller, bay area resident// "the transbay transit center is 1.5 million square feet and has 37 bus bays that should increase how

the new 2 billion dollar transbay transit center in downtown san francisco is now open.a preview of what's inside. (robin) and here's a live look outside... at the golden gate bridge. the hollywood minute is coming up after the break. (james) welcome back to the kron four morning news. one of the stars of "the meg" reveals the hardest part of making the movie. and is a famous actor toying with us about playing james bond? david daniel has our entertainment roundup. "why don't you just put a tracker on it? don't you guys ever watch shark week?"rainn wilson says the hardest part of making "the meg" was the part he thought would be the most fun!"you're like 'oh, man, i can't wait to do my scene in the water, and have my lines, and dive in -- i'm so hot right now, and i'll fall in and splash. it seems so fun.' and then about take five, or six, or seven, it starts to be, like, the least fun thing in the world. you're completely water-logged, you're wrinkled from head to toe, it's exhausting, and you have to go over and over again.""a racing game?" "slaughter race. it is wicke

. >>> first look at the new transbay transit center in san francisco. it's pretty impressive. 7 news got to go inside today days ahead of the big grand opening. the ground the floor is the grand hall. the big board features ads and bus times. train service is at least ten years away. buses will have a dedicated route. buses will officially start rolling in and out on sunday. here is more on what that commute will look like. >> ac transit driver's are already making practice runs into the transit center today, getting ready to whisk transbay riders not just into a new terminal, but a new commuting experience. >> this is an amazing accomplishment. ac transit is excited to be moving in. >> reporter: spokesman robert liles says the first thing commuters will notice are the digital pylons. >> it has touch screen information. so riders can walk up, choose their bus line, look at a map and gather up to daet information. >> riders will glide from the bay bridge over city streets on a cable bus ramp leading the to and from the terminal, cutting as much as five minutes from the commute.

you know, the transbay terminal here is a new landmark in san francisco and as you see, the commuters catch their buses to the east bay and other parts of san francisco, but as for who is picking up the tab for a lot of that, it's a little closer to us than you might imagine. let's take a look. san francisco's new $2 billion transbay terminal is big and with its rooftop garden it's bold and as it turns out, very expensive to operate as well. >> we have a lot of janitors, a lot of security folks, a lot of >> reporter: plus gardeners for the 4 block long rooftop park. >> almost 70, 80 people in total. >> reporter: add in utilities and other expenses and we're talking about roughly $25 million a year to keep the lights on, the doors open and the place running smoothly. >> making sure it's clean for the public, watering, irrigation, upkeep of landscaping. >> reporter: the trouble is so far this retail space at the center which was built to help pay for the cost is still empty. so the center will need about a $13 million bailout in help and as usual, it will be the thousands of toll payers

. >> i don't live super close to bart in oakland, so there's a lot of transbay buses closer to my house. i'll probably choose to use that. >> this is going to work for you? >> yeah. >> reporter: folks were grabbing pictures on the center's cable stay bridge which will allow transit buss to fly over downtown's traffic snarls. >> people are going to cross over six busy streets of photographic during congested hours and never touch a city street if they come from the east bay on ac transit. >> reporter: the crown jewel might be the five-acre rooftop park, a place to hang out and take in the skyline vazg. hub. it's a place where people can gather. and it's been a great day so far. >> talk about letting the sun shine in. one of the coolest features is the steel oculus. a giant skylight which brings sunshine and light four stories down. >> reporter: the transit center took eight years to build. commuters enduring a lot of traffic headaches during construction. >> it's nice after so many years that construction's finally over. >> reporter: many believe the bay area now has a new landmark. >> i

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the new transbay transit center is now open in san francisco. what they can expect. ( james ) plus... two teens killed in a deadly crash... three others are in the hospital including the driver of the car. ( james ) a breaking news from overnight... the family of music legend aretha franklin is gaterhing by her bedside amid reports she is gravely ill. just when you thought you were done painting... ...you discover paint bleed under your tape... not with frogtape! frogtape is the only painter's tape treated with patented paintblock technology. paintblock reacts with the water in latex paint to form a micro-barrier against paint bleed, giving you the sharpest lines possible. get professional results with frogtape... no messy lines, no paint bleed. for sharp lines every time, frog it! darya folsom..(james) and i'm james fletcher. lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic... conditions will be much better today for stepping outside and enjoying than what the bay experienced last week. temperatures have settled down near seasonal ave

we've got jessica castro riding the first ac transit bus into the new transbay terminal.y have the ribbon up. are they going to drive through there or get out and cut the ribbon. >> i hope it's dramatic. i want to see that bus drive right through. >> i hope it doesn't hit the balloon arch. that would be more interesting to watch, wouldn't it? >> this could be. the suspense here. >> practically seriousness, the thing about this, because they've built that flyover ramp, they no longer have to go through traffic when they get off the bay bridge and then into the terminal, so that should be a little faster to get in to the transbay terminal. >> yes. >> it's also -- the thing you can't see, just above that ceiling, there's a fountain that goes along the stretch of where the busses park and you were on top of the park you would see the fountain mirror the bus. there's sensors. sounds like i'm making this up. you see our photographer is looking at the ceiling. sensors along the ceiling. it knows when -- where the bus is. when the bus comes in they have a water fountain that shoo

transit employees were there to welcome the transbay buses from the east bay with confetti and hooplae took advantage by exploring the roof deck and park. >>> i come here every weekend in the city, and it's like a concrete jungle to me, and having something like this is just a nice refuge. it's a nice, calming, peace area. >> the old temporary transbay terminal at bielse that space will be torn down. >>> still ahead on abc 7 news, a giants fan pa.dle milestone at that inclus a stadiumwide serenade. >>> some of us will see a cooldown this week. drew tuma is up next with the accuweather forecast. >>> the giants try to wrap up their home stand with a victory against the pirates. and tiger woods shoots his resident got to celebrate her birthday with 40,000 of her closest friends. ♪ happy birthday dear lucy ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >>> i love this. that is lucy marakeyan blowing out the candles on her take to celebrate her 112th birthday, courtesy of the san francisco giants. lucy had quite a year. in may she stopped getting her pension payouts and almost lost health insurance because t

plus it )s finally open but the new transbay terminal is missing something important. when we could see it... next. >>> finally tonight, it's a sad fact, 40 million americans can't get enough to eat. on one hand you have hungry families and on the other end restaurants and businesses with extra food that goes to waste. that's where a college student with a brilliant idea steps forward to inspire america. at a providence food pantry, a portrait of hunger comes into focus. >> pretty tough when your grandkids are asking for food when they come to visit and you don't have anything. >> a group of tech savvy college students led by senior maria rose belding have found a new way to solve an old problem. tell me what your ah-ha moment was about food. >> i have always been working in food pantries. i was always sorting cans and stacking them but when i was 14, it was clear we could not communicate at all. there was no completely free online network for emergency food providers, so eighth grade, set out to build it. >> reporter: she helped create the s ans database who have extr

for the san francisco's old transbay terminal, is nearly complete.ill be able to get on and off buses there ... starting on sunday. kron 4's maureen kelly gives us a tour... and outlines the plan to keep the new terminal crime- free. this light filled concourse is the grand hall of the new salesforce transit center. commuters entering the grand hall will walk on top of this artist designed terrazzo floor...one of four public art installations built in as a second light art installation...scrolls above. buses coming from to and from the east bay will be able to travel above city streets via this cable stay bridge....rolling in to pick up and drop off passengers inside. but while that will happen in just days....it will be years before trains run thru this terminal. the current estimate puts that at a decade away.while the new transit center is primarily for commuters..... the public park on the top deck is open to everyone. made up of 6000 plants and 600 trees there is a playground and plenty of places for people to sit and eat lunch...or take in the

. >>> well, drone view 7 shows you the newly completed rooftop park at the new transbay transit centereparations are under way for a block party in san francisco to mark the opening. >> that will happen saturday night on august 11th. but today, abc 7 news got a sneak peek. >> and so the plaza, the children's play area. >> reporter: for a lucky group of neighbors and commuters walking through the sales force transit center's rooftop park was like taking a stroll around california, passing trees and plants from every corner of the state and beyond. >> these are the mexican fan plants. >> reporter: it hits on roughly five acres, 70 feet above the sidewalks below. designers staggered the trees and plants to create shifting focus. >> we wanted to highlight the climate and the kind of conditions we have in san francisco. >> reporter: the landscape stretches not just in front of you, but above and below as well. connected in the reflection of the surrounding skyscrapers, and energized by fountains that splash when buses pass you aren't neath them. >> that's the thing that's interesting and ni

. >> and there's actually more park on the way because the old temporary transbay terminal at beil and howard is going to be torn down, a city park and housing will be built on that one block site. >> love to hear that. >> did you see the crowds at that thing? >> i didn't. >> it was massive on saturday. people really turned out to see this. >> okay. >> well, you were at outside land. i'm not sure if you got to check that out. >> i was with the crowds at outsidelands but i want to take my kids to that salesforce transit transbay center. >> it's a mouthful, yeah. >> your 12-hour day planner for today, cloud cover with a stronger onshore flow. sunrise at 6:23, we will see clearing and sunny skies except at the coast. temperatures will be cooler compared to yesterday so inland areas in the upper 80s around the bay, mid 70s and at the coast the sea breeze really keeps things cool, upper 50s throughout the day. alexis? >> good morning, francis. overall off to a quiet start this morning. taking a look at drive times, westbound 580, tracy to kv the one we can count on to be busy this early in

. >> and there's actually more park on the way because the old temporary transbay terminal at beil andng to be torn down, a city park and housing will be built on that one block site. >> love to hear that. >> did you see the crowds at that thing? >> i didn't. >> it was massive on saturday. people really turned out to see this. >> okay. >> well, you were at outside land. i'm not sure if you got to check that out. >> i was with the crowds at outsidelands but i want to take my kids to that salesforce transit transbay center. >> it's a mouthful, yeah. >> your 12-hour day planner for

they blame their neighbors, specifically construction of the transbay terminal, san francisco's answer, right next door. transbay declined an on-camera interview, too, but told us millennium had already sunk ten inches before work began on their project. and right on cue, here come the lawyers. lawyers for millennium partners, for the transbay terminal next door, for the tower's structural engineers and geotechnical engineers, for the architect and the builder, for the homeowners association, and for the city. and yes, even for joe montana. there are 20 parties to various millennium tower lawsuits, and counting. >> dodson: it takes a half hour just to take attendance of the lawyers in the courtroom. i mean, literally. >> wertheim: that's a lot of billable hours. >> dodson: a lot of billable hours. >> wertheim: courtroom circus aside, we asked aaron peskin, the city supervisor, simply: what's going on here? >> peskin: everybody is afraid to tell the truth, because if we get to the bottom of this, they are worried that it is going to, in some ways, slow down the building boom that is hap

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the much anticipated transbay terminal is now fully operational. this morning ... a ribbon was cut to officially dedicate the bus deck into operation. the 2.2 billion dollar transportation hub stretches roughly three city blocks ... there are 37 bus bays which ac transit says will help them increase how many people they can serve. and as kron4's lydia pantazes reports now, there was a special guest on hand for the first full day of operations. as you know the grand opening was this weekend but this morning the center welcomed the first bus from the trans bay bus line....the passengers will break the ribbon and officially dedicate the bus deck into operation.(take vo) there was a grand opening this weekend... it was a packed house as people tried to get into the $2.2 billion multistory transportation hub. the new center stretches roughly three city blocks from beale street to second street south of mission street.we talked to riders this weekend. (sot)"people are going to cross over six busy streets of traffic during congested hours, and they're never going to touch

as a representative of the board of directors, it has been an honor to serve on the transbay joint powers authority. as you heard, i want to go back even further and say thank you to the dreamers. thank you to the dreamers. thank you to the people who had the vision of what could be and where we are today is where -- what that dream was, for two years later. as you have heard, the salesforce transit centre is a major milestone but the hard work is not done yet. the next phase, bringing caltrain and high-speed rail to the salesforce center is critical to the region. today as we take time to celebrate, explore the transit centre, is a celebration time. but as we know on monday, we have to roll up our sleeves and get hard to work and bring the train to the train box two stories below us. my role today is to acknowledge, not only the thousand men and women that worked there, by the many partners that have been part of this vision and this dream. i will read a whole bunch of names, and at the very end we will give them a round of applause. our face two operators who will be here by the time yo

the salesforce transbay terminal has finally opened up .. and among other amenities...a roof top park .... (ken) but even (ken) but even with the terminal being open only a few days... the bad behavior has already begun. ((what do you think)) umm well i hope that's the only one you find, ((second one so far)) the second there is one on the other side this is jeff and we'll come back to him in a moment and no jeff was not behaving badly i'm at the brand spanking new salesforce transbay terminal, where on multiple levels, buses from all around the bay arrive to pick up and drop off passengers nats: ambiance on fremont street, you might see a rideshare parking in a dedicated turn lane dropping off passengers or for that matter you might see one waiting to pick up passengers on mission the difference from this driver and this one every bus driver trying to make that turn took a photo of the rideshare which means the rideshare driver might get multiple bus zone tickets in the mail that's 288 dollars a pop i guess you can call this a revenue free day for this driver nats: amb