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Homes, amber. Reporter julie the Apartment Building that burned is right behind me. You can see the heavy damage and why its unlivable. Chopper 2 and a neighbor captured the flames on video as it ravished this building. Huge smoke, flames were probably 15 feet height. The smoke barrels through the other side of the street. Reporter neighbor mitch cadina showed us the video he took. It started at the balcony and went to the attic area and started traveling. Reporter john giles tells me he rushedd...

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center...

Percent. Today we are announcing one special effort thanks to the can an foundation, wonderful organization, and their collaboration with the Community Loan fund working with our offices and Community Base nonprofits, we have established something that has been in the works for a number of months, but its now established well and its called cast. That is Community Arts stabilization trust. Cast in short for theatre cast. Everybody gets that except for those like me who are new to this. I want to...

Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center here in our city. All of us here are here today to celebrate a very importan...

Clapping good morning. Good morning. Thank you, don for that introduction im glad to be here at the tonight center again. Its also great to be here. I was telling me our deputy secretary marie this this was one of the first when we went through the translation of that to use the arresting are a fund it was such an enlightening positive effort in the tenderloin to use the federal program that president obama gave us. Im here to welcome you to San Francisco and thank you for being here for the hom...

Recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. You can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time were not turning back. We know you are finished. Desperate, near the end. Hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. Amen. After the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. The third floor is not usually reserved fo...

Base guitarist. My first show was at the shop many years ago. Speaking about the arts in the 2000 i cofounded a space here in San Francisco in south of market. I remember having a Performance Arts space, we moved three times in 6 years and finding spaces to support them was in incredibly challenging during that time. We were eventually able to share spaces through other Arts Organizations, but i do remember how important permanent physical space was. Thats why its so exciting to be here 13 years...

Street or alley wide enough you can comply with it. You can also comply with it if it faces a code compliance rear yard. We dont have a code compliant rear yard because we have this modified one. So due to the technical requirement of the code, you need to get an exception. But again this building is facing the rear yard that has more depth to it and more separation than a code compliant rear yard would. Actually, let me illustrate it for you if you are interested in seeing that. Sure. Here is m...

Is labor intensive and not practical and you look at data as a proxy to see what we are using the age to sign as a proxy for the need for replacing the sign due to re flectivity. Within the next week, well have the data converted. Then from that point on, well be able to start using the data base to guide us towards reevaluating the signs. There is no risk of danger of massive collapse from the city from our vendor. The signs have a 12year warrant and i emphasize they have a good state. Thats go...

For San Francisco, they are part of the culture, they are part of the International Flavor of San Francisco. We are going to continue doing everything we can to support their existence, their survival and their success. When we drafted the Market Street economic strategy, we had arts right there focused. Now weve got some answers, now weve got some models to exhibit out there. So these first two successful Building Owner ships are just the beginning. When the arts programs established themselves...