Seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. Here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the Interactive Science Museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. Pier one, we are all familiar with the ports headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. So, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side Conference Rooms get used for very public meetings. Next door, piers 1 and a half, i dont know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basi
Projects have presented themselves, the port staff and the city staff have worked to develop a public process, like that, articulated in the water front land use plan. And sometimes, it has been wildly successful. And such as at t ballpark that draws 4 million visitors a year and the explore torium is already drawing 1. 2 million visitors and drawing the kids down to the water front that meets that sort of diversity of people and activities and the goal in the water front plan, and the americas cup, was great success. And the port staff, and delivered, some 32 Million Dollars, of improvements to the water front. And we saw, a million visitors in 2012, and 2013, and it help us to expedite the cruise terminal project, and the wharf project and the pier, 43, and the other projects have not been. As successful. The warriors project, and it drew a lot of controversy, the people wanted to talk about the other locations, not on the port property. And the americas cup initially envisioned the
An amazing job of community out reach. Of meeting with anyone who has, or who wants to understand anything about what is going on with the water front. And so i do believe that the boaters have made a statement and i do believe that maybe, there are some things that we could do differently, and i just dont want to take away from the amazing work that this team has done and created along the water front, thank you. Commissioner woo ho . I am going to take a different tact, and i certainly dont take away and i think that it is an amazing work that we have done so far and it is great to understand, what we have accomplished and what brad and diane have done a great job, and we are trying to look forward and have the speakers address what we want to accomplish, and first of all i have learned on the commission that every citizen believes that they own the water front in San Francisco. And that is a hard one for us as a commission to meet everybodys needs and desires. And i have come to res
The past 17 years, and a Productive Partnership with the port of San Francisco, and that is incredibly necessary and so now what we need to do is exploit it, and we need to think far in the future and we need to think about not only the next five to ten years but the next 25 to 30 and we need to make the water front better for San Francisco. And because, the more that we make it better for San Francisco, is the more that it will be better for region and for the rest of the world and that is what San Francisco and the bay area wants and so with that i am happy to take any questions that you might have. Dealing with brad and dealing with diane and dealing with the wrong word and it really is the appropriate word, really because, we do deal with each other and we like each other and we do a good job with each and you should be congratulations with the kind of staff that you hire because they are good. Thank you for saying that. And i often say that the support staff is the best in the cit
Is an active notice, and the beeping of the cards, and the voice over the system and the airconditioning units and just thinking about that, because we live in a world with so much noise and that makes sense that these cars can help to contribute to quieting the rider experience is important. And to that, effect, i mean, every time that one of those pneumatic doors go off it is loud and it is almost like a gun shot when they are working and so, looking forward to having a much quieter operation of the doors as well. And thank you. And members of the public, yes . One person, who is turn in a speak are card. Howard strausner. Good afternoon, again, directors, i am almost as excited as you guys are about getting these new cars. And especially the extra service on the other day for the first time in my history, i had to let a car, go by and i did not see a way to wedge myself on. And so, that is going to be important and really gets me real excited about this one, on the quality level, of