businesses like the eagle tavern, the john barleycorn, original joe's, the front room, the red vic theatre, mission records, andna namu. what other businesses are going to lose next? how can the city protect our existing small businesses from rising rent while maintaining neighborhood character and protecting jobs? how can we help them stay competitive with many of our larger stores? mayor lee: thank you, supervisor, for that question. always concerning when we learn a small family-owned businesses closing. there are many reasons why a business closes and sometimes it has nothing to do with rent. for instance, when the original joe's burned down in 2007, as you well know, whether or not it would be reopened was a question for a younger generation's interest in continuing the business and viability of taylor street for a large format restaurant. the family actually owns the business there -- the building there. as part of the efforts to build business in the tenderloin, we worked with the family to help reposition the business in the tenderloin if they wished or help them police their space