i just want to speak very highly of troy campbell here. he dedicates every ounce of his time to better the fisherman's wharf district for the public safety, environment -- just the all around experience and i want to thank him very much when he brought this retail strategy to our board of directors meeting. it is beyond what we expected from him. and i hope that as you read it, you could understand how we want fisherman's wharf to grow and be part of the port. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? >> i'm kevin carroll. i just want to thank troy and the community benefit district. as he mentioned, we have 3200 hotel rooms and probably 2,000 employees that are just in the hotel industry alone on fisherman's wharf. and looking at it as just a comprehensive and strategic look at how the retail components of that can help everybody, including the city. i just want to thank him for all the work of him and his team for putting this together. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is cl

i just want to speak very highly of troy campbell here. he dedicates every ounce of his time to better the fisherman's wharf district for the public safety, environment -- just the all around experience and i want to thank him very much when he brought this retail strategy to our board of directors meeting. it is beyond what we expected from him. and i hope that as you read it, you could understand how we want fisherman's wharf to grow and be part of the port. >> thank you.

have in front of you, it's from our fishermen's wharf retail strategy report presented here by troy campbell executive director and we have laura schaefer here in the background with fishermen's wharf district. this is what they tracked as the amount of investment going into phase one. so one of the key findings in that retail strategy report is public versus private. and i think it's a very good role for a project such as this. through the fantastic amount of money that was requisitioned, it is not easy. that project would hopefully continue to spur investment in fishermen's wharf area. a lot of investment into the lodging that surrounds this or really on what we call the nonport side of things. it does keep the visitors back to new, refreshed facilities, so we think that's a good component. it's broken into other categories, public space and retail, attractions, relatively even. so the memo concluded that it would have an important, long-term economic stability for the wharf and the port through this project. she did a lot of work on the retail strategy report, was instructi instrumental i