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 also help to draw foot traffic. Professional Services Provide needed services in an officelike setting directly to the general public, but even uses like office and housing that may not serve the general public help generate foot traffic and the demand for retail and ncds. 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 s
Board constituting a quorum. I forgot to mention, were joined by fewer, yee, stefani as well. Im going to ask you to call item three out of order because we need to make some amendments. Item three, please. Item number tlaoe. Ordinance amending the planning doed accomplish the gear rimasonic special use district in the area generally bounded by the geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and assessors parcel block numbers 1071, lots numbers 1 and to the north and west. Thank you. Supervisor stefani, the new sponsor of this item. Thank you, chair tang. Colleagues, thank you for hearing this item today. Im thrilled to put the final touches on this project that has taken over two years to get to this stage. I was ah aids when this first came to district two and it is great to see how far this project has come. This s. U. D. Allows it to go from 21 ewe it in units to 91 units while remaining the same size. It goes from three to 22, that is more affordable units than the to
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