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Assistant attorney general for antitrust, discussed antitrust enforcement during a conversation hosted by the Brookings Institution in washington dc, topics include revising the guidelines for mergers, labor market impacts, the importance of acting competition and innovation in how the courts interpret antitrust regulation and how the courts interpret antitrust regulation. Good morning everybody. Welcome to brookings. Welcome to those in person and those online and those on cspan. Before i intro...

Forced it out, and that ruined the Affordable Care act. Host apologies, try to find a better line and called in again. That does it for todays washington journal. Happening in washington right now, the chair of the federal trade commission and u. S. Assistant for antitrust are going to be discussing efforts to enforce competition in business. Live coverage here on cspan. Good, everybody, and welcome to those in person and those online and on cspan. Before i introduce our distinguished guest, i t...

Include an anchor that drives foot traffic to the district, and an anchor could be a fullservice Grocery Store or another large retailer or it could be a cluster of smaller stores, related Retail Stores or restaurants; some sort of use thats a little cluster. Other businesses in a healthy mix include restaurants, nightlife and entertainment that compliment retail sales and provide gathering spaces for potential customers and potential services and Fitness Centers that provide needed services and...

Neighborhood commercial district capacity to promote and market their area, to care for the public realm and to activate public space. We think that there should be some changes potentially with storefront regulations and Design Guidelines and aaron just gave a couple examples of some of the ways this those affect Small Businesses in commercial districts, particularly looking at more flexiblity in some areas is one of the implications of our study about what goes in the ground floor and reducing...

So what all this means, diversifying the mixes in an ncd so that retailers can support their customer base, is it should include a range of storefront sizes, and storefronts should be designed to adaptablity, and be able to serve a wide set of uses. It also means that the office uses that that are not open to the general public could be located off the ground floor or on the periphery of an ncd. Limiting ground floor retail requirements for new development to the strongest locations for retail c...

Storefronts are vai cants or abandoned. A number we thought would be relatively easy to get. But it was not in a number of reports and measures made by both city agencies and, of course, private sector real estate companies. But none of them capture the totality of all commercial buildings and storefronts and their vacancy rates. We can get certainly a lot of information about downtown commercial properties and their van can si rates and we can get commercial spaces throughout the city that are ...

For way toss appeal to this increased emphasis on experience by doing things like Holding Classes and events or serving food and drinks in a retail location. And on the slides here, we have a couple of examples of this in San Francisco the retailers. On the left is a store called byrd and beckett with a music event. It is a record and bookstore. And on the right is san francycle with another event where people are encourage to come from the event, but these types of veterans draw in shoppers and...

Questions you might have. Thank you. Thank you very much for that overview. I know that our office work add lot on the registry issue. Given that a law was passed but we also noticed that it wasnt really updated as well. And i think as we go on into our other presentations, one of my observations now is that even if we were to have this wonderfully filled database of all the vacancis that that still might not address the issues that were dealing with in terms of the changing nature of retail. I ...

[pleage of allegiance] commissioner loftus i like to call roll call. Loftus, here. Turman, here. Moshoyannis is en route dejesus, here. Mazzucco, present. Wald, present. Mallett are we present you have a quorum also with this night is the interim chief of police tony chaplin and dir. Of office of citizens complaint joyce hicks. Thank you everyone. Good evening and welcome to the wednesday, october 19, 2016 Police Commission meeting. We are tonight in october is a busy month. We find ourselves co...

Concern about blue ribbon panel. Another doj glossed over. We included any recommendation from the Blueribbon Panel and any report in the respective categories that we were remotely involved. If there was any inference or implication we included it. So by inclusion, that means that any of the additional recommendations from any of the reports will be implement it within the 18 months. Thats our plan. As an example, Blueribbon Panel recommendation number eight coincided with department of justice...