Things worth exploring, but until we have an executive director, i propose we suspend any further discussion until our march 16th meeting. Colleagues, does that sound okay to you . Great. Now lets open this up to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item seven. Surprise, surprise. Eric brooks, californians for Energy Choice and all the other groups that i mentioned before. So the weve heard from the interim executive officer that the bids that came in on the request for qualifications are proprietary, and theyre not allowed to be released. The public, of course, really would like to see the applicants and who they are, and so that we can weigh in on who we think would be the best person, but we cant really do it without that information. This is a question for the attorney and for the executive interim executive officer, but if we can even get the names of applicants, then, we can look them up themselves and decide what we think and then mayb
Clerk please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon will appear on the february 27th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Mr. Clerk, can you please call items 1 and 2. Hearing on the current status of the citys leased owned portfolio within the civic center and update on the Portfolio Five year plan. Item 2, potential three year enewly and amendment of a lease of approximately 27,826 square feet of space at 1390 Market Street with purchase 1390 market as landlord for use by the department of Public Health. Thank you. I think we have a presentation from john updike from the department of real estate . Thank you, vice chair fewer. Supervisor stefani. Before i get into the presentation, i want to the last time we gave a real estate Portfolio Update to this committee it was charmed by carmen chu which tells me we need to do this more frequently. But its a pleasure to be here today. Direct
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 not receiving mail. The office of economic and Workforce Development does just commercial storefronts. But for 24 commercial corridors only. So, it is still not the citywide rate. On this chart, you can see some of the rates that are reported and tracked. Oewd reported 5 as a whole for the 24 quarters they track. 8. 2 by the city controller for commercial vacancies downtown in 2016. And the u. S. Postal service, as i mentioned, which reports all commercial addresses that are not receiving mail f
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 hopefully also to purchase. Well, so then im going to move on to the impact of these National Trends on San Francisco retail. And im going to start with the good news first. The good news is that San Francisco San Francisco has been somewhat insulated from the National Trends in retail and this sufferst buffering is in part due to our many competitive advantages in San Francisco. And these are and these advantages include the really strong economy, a local cull thursday that places high value o
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 really like the suggestions that were offered in this report. Supervisor fewer . Thank you very much. I just have one question. You mentioned that the city of chicago charges a vacancy property Registration Fee every since months if property is vai cants with higher fees charged if the property is reported by complaint rather than selfreported by the owner. Cefjs im wondering has the city of chicago spaoefrntion add decline in vacant store fronts since it has implemented higher fees and properti