All right, sal, 6 01. And anything, are you still you know, im seeing traffic beginning to develop, steve, its lighter than usual, but there is a commute out there in case youre wondering. Richmond bridge a little bit of snowing. The fog is playing a role. Highway 4 not fog in lafayette, foggy as you head up the hill. Lets go back to the desk. Following breaking news right now, Police Investigating a shooting own matter horn drive at b arrietta road. You are with us now, so what do you know so far, alyssa. Reporter good morning, still heavy Police Presence here, i want to show you where they are centering their investigation, they are on matterhorn and bronco drive. We see them in front a house just about halfway down this block. There are shell casings in the middle of the street. What we know is this shooting happened at 2 45 a. M. A man was shot and suffered some life threatening injuries. That victim was taken to a hospital. No suspects have been identified. So police are still sea
General manager for water gave a presentation of the bay area think tank. The title of the presentation was bay delta and the future of Regional Water supplies, a copy of the powerpoint has been presented or submitted to the commission. On the overhead is the slide of that presentation. The presentation began with the statement that the Regional Water issues are not a supply issue but a, quote, unquote, plumbing issue. And the plumbing issue could be resolved through a number of agreements between Regional Water districts and with infrastructure projects. On the overhead is a summary of the Capital Projects which would revolve the plumbing issue. However, it was stated the sfpuc, 20 percent of these projects came to fruition would be fortunate. It was stated the projects that came to fruition will take ten to 30 years to complete. The first the overhead, the first seven projects listed would cost 2 billion. So it seems to be a very different narrative between a supply and a plumbing ap
The department of Public Health, its not quite like a restaurant, right . The potential impact could be potentially much more serious, depending on the use that it is. And so if i understand correctly, the discomfort is more about our process in reviewing the environmental consequences of permitting this and whether we have reviewed everything and we know that its okay. My only concern we dont have the expertise to understand whether a particular hood would work in a particular situation. We have to rely on the expertise of the other agencies for that, right . So i dont know its typically not a level of detail we would get into at this level of entitlement. But thats the challenge im suggesting. Thats why fairly routine for us to have, within a categorical exemption, rely on existing codes and policies, existing code language that invites and requires other agencies to be involved and their codes would kick in. I think we are getting into that level of the entitlement phase of a projec
Retailers, local and big box and just about everybody and nobody could make it work. Even using the global reach of our company, we couldnt make it happen. Nowhere in this country is there a shopping sent we are as many floors as westfield San Francisco center. Not in chicago, not in new york. The retail is why they succeed which is why the body amended the planning code to eliminate the need for a cup for the seventh and eighth floors and above. So we believe this investment is good for San Francisco center and mixed use buildings are inherently complementary with the office use supporting the retail and retail an amenity for the office. And we are going to do a full renovation and that includes improved lighting at the street level and the largest nordstrom in the portfolio and will remain one of the largest in the country. Letters of support including one from nordstrom and they couldnt make it br are supportive of this project. We believe they must continue to be the Retail Destina
And i want to tell you that what were seeing right now is not a cycle change. Its a structural change, and i am sure you are aware and seen the retailers and the retailers are shrinking the footprint and it is not the Large Department stores but even tenants that used to be 5,000 feet are shrinking to 1,000 feet and trying to deal with how to market the goods online and cross market both aspects. It has had a very structural change and quite frankly t vacancy rate at union square is the lowest that i have seen in 25 excuse me t highest in 25 years of business in union square. This there is, as we all know, a lot of vacancies that are happening. Barneys is going to close, forever 21 is closing, Williams Sonoma and the multifloor retailers are going out of business and those are the only ones that can occupy the upper floors. They are just not there. We have been marketing 146 geary for four years and talking to tenants initially to take the entire building because that works the best fo