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SFGTV February 25, 2014

You very much for that presentation. Item 67 on the agenda i dont have it is that permits yeah. Thats permits this is the hearing for permits under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission how is that. Great. It is Matthew Henry doing business as the watch theyre requesting a permit his business is a tshirt merchandising but they need to have retail its slow so they added pinball machines and it got a lot of transaction and officer wu you visited them and the owner didnt know he had to have a mechanic and i adrenalins permit so in the report officer wu thinks this is a Good Business and theres dozens of emails and letters thinking that the watch is a great addition to the community. Heres a lot of signatures and stuff. Wait theres more. Hi, im Matthew Henry i operate free gold watch its a Screen Printing shop we print tshirts overall the state and any bands or restaurants or anybody that needs tshirts. Were on 67 waller street were zoned for retail on that block. We have 25 hundred square feet of retail space that was difficult to fill so we tried jeans and outerwear and couldnt get people to come into our space so we are you think the only retail store on the street. I think theres a yoga place there to people werent coming off our street so we added a few pinball machines only for me and my employees to play then a few more people and a few more people came by and i met someone who had a few more machines who want to do put them in. We have a Pinball League that looets meets every other wednesday 72 active members we had to close off the registration and deny people its fun clean entertainment and a lot of kids that come by and moms and dads bring their kids by and they ask what is this and the kids stand on a stool and their fingers start flipping its really, really rewarding to watch its not an an ipad im seeing that children gets addicted to device. Its great to see it become a part of childrens lives those machines are older than their parent. We love pinball and want to keep it there how many machines. Currently 29 machines. Commissioner joseph. Anything great any spectacular pinball machines arrest how about your farther. Captain fantastic and if youve seen the movie the pinball wisconsins arrested machine and elton john has his own pinball machine theres another pinball machine attack from mars and the medieval madness that features tina ray before she was famous. Something for me, i love about pinball is the artwork because the play fields is all screen printed so i get to admire but i anything else in printing those playing fields its a work of art do you have the one that says you have failed laughter . I think you might be referring to black knight referral it says no way when you miss its very not encouraging. laughter . Hes against you throughout the game. Commissioners any other questions or comments. Thank you very much you can have a seat. Any any Public Comment . In support or about this . Come on up hello commissioners, thank you very much for the opportunity. State your name. Im erick im the selfishness director at the patent university a Small College in the east bay. I want to see a few words on behalf of petitioner. I help to run the pinball tournaments although im not alleviated with the business in the bay area theres only one other place that has morphin ball machines in alameda so to have some in San Francisco is fantastic for us. Its allowed us to have a number of events and tournament twice a month as matt mentioned. Weve been attracting a diversity even if people from all walks of life teenagers coming in to retired folks and its great do so people from all types of professions and part of the country. Recently, there was a big tournament near los angeles a lot of scandinavians came in and they came into to see the lounge its acquit popular. I wanted to say this is very important its an important place for the pinball community great, thank you. Thank you. Any other any Public Comment . All right. Come on up anyone after this just go ahead state your name and what heifer what you want to say im andrea im a San Francisco native and grew up in the same neighborhood as free gold watch i work in the neighborhood at ucsf. Ive learned to play pinball and since then three years ago, i became the pinball challenge. Ive been to a a lot of places around the world. I want to address there are very few places to play pinballs and down at the Fishermans Wharf there are hard to keep them running and a maintained and you cant make a lot of money off them so few people want to invest it has a historic experience and an exciting experience and so one thing about free gold watch it has older games one other one was the wisconsins arrested of these game its got a full flat screen and it is from the movie wisconsins arrested of these including a monkey that picks up the ball and heads to the castle. Its great the best players in the world has been there the other thing its for casual people to be playing for fun and to learn about it pinball was not once as popular as it was. Just having a place for people to play. I think its good for the game and the city to have this special offering that was documented in the middle eastern magazine had cover stories about the gold watch and pinball stories theres a broad appeal for visitors. Its a positive place i think that matt as the owner and his wife make it welcoming and pinball people have been around for a long time. The attitude is really nice among pinball people. Were competitive or cache people playing for fun its a lowcost fun and enjoyment and i love the game and the gold watch does is great game thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker ill try not to sound like a broken record. Im sort of the opposite of andrea i moved to San Francisco in the United States only 2 1 2 years ago. I want to say that coming to a new city a hard to find friends and the watch place is where ive off and on a community. Its taught me about a seethe of American History i come from denmark where we didnt have any pinball machines and didnt have a free gold watch to be able to be welcomed by the group of people it is totally amazing. I got addicted i feel like a little child when i go there. Matt and andrea touched on it not only is this pinball place hard to find but its hard to find welcoming where families can come and hang out in the afternoon the other options are in alameda but its hard if you dont have a car or to go to bars if you have a family; right . So its one of the placed you can go with your whole family theres also a family hanging out in the place with the kids next speaker. Thats not something you see on every Street Corner are thats it thank you for your times. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . . Already seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to move i dont think ive smiled this hard over a permit in a really long time this is totally cool and i move to approve. All right. A second. Ill second. Take to vote. Okay. On the motion to approve commissioner hyde. I. Commissioner campagnoli and president tan all right. Congratulations clapping. theres applause thats the first too. Lets move open to item 6 b is the better and better room this is located on stockton street theyre requesting a Live Performance permit and the commission has permitted a place of Live Entertainment but because of the new ownership thats a request for a new permit they want the Live Performance permit they want to have do yous and we got a permit from the police that says approves. Im retro at that were applying for a limited Live Performance permit. I dont know if many of you have been to our property but sometimes you can literally walk by it and not realize it was there and weve been there since 1906 thats when the building was there first its a really great space. It has original penny tile on the second floor. You know, having the opportunity to have live band 5 nights a week is a unique experience. I think you mentioned earlier theres not many places that offer microscopic free and you can enjoy cocktails or diner. We work with sprouts which say they help teach kids about food and how to cook food. So well invite them into the restaurants on weekends and show them how to preparing and invite them the following weekend so they will cook food for their families and serve them on weekends so i have a letter too. You can pass that up to us. All right. Any questions from commissions im familiar with your space i had diner there in december. Okay. So when you go up the stairs. Yeah. So you have dousing or troys in the bar area. When you go through the better room theres a section this is literally in that section. Uhhuh. Commissioner lee. I was there only a few weeks ago actually. You know, since its a hotel theres security its kind of nice to have something there i only knew passing through that tunnel was the green door massage the green door uhhuh. Yeah. I dont go there of course, not laughter . But i went to a party under my friend ken through a party and i was surprised at the amount of people so i think its great its something only 10 oclock; right . I dont see any more comments please have a seat and well invite the police to come up officer. Steve ma empathy of the please station were recommending approval they had a previous license and done some remodeling where the larger room in the back is now ail tables and chairs and stuff so it was nice the previous license was nice because it was a hotel first and foremost so they didnt want to make their guests angry as far as noise i cant think of a single complaint it is a great fit for the area and we wish them well. Thank you. Any any Public Comment on the barrooms application a seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners anyone have a motion i motion to approve. Ill second. All right. Lets take a vote. Commissioner hyde. Commissioner joseph. Commissioner lee. Commissioner campagnoli. President tan so moved. Well move into our final permit this is the piano fight its on taylor just to clarify this is not the fight club some people were confused it is as you know the old original jose that burnt down years ago and they plan to feature everything from the drama plays and stand up and the applicants met with the officers and theyve recommended some conditions theyre in your bind if you want to look at them and the applicants are fine fair undergoing more construction. Good evening, everyone thanks for taking the time to let us speak. Im rob and this is dan williams were the owners and operators of piano fight were a theatre that started here in the city in 2007. We started with just a 3 man team and since then about 50 Company Artists we have visual artists and dancers oiblg writers and a producers. Weve done about 5 hundred different shows. Weve been performing all over the city and a by the way, and up and down california were building this into a multiple stage complex with a full bar and we have a 90 seat theater and with a cab are a stage. What else. The kind of performs youre likely to see its a lot of comedy we do a lot of new work by locals. Were not going to do any shakespeare we do do exclusively work by locals it tends to be a lot of commodity and improve and stand up that kind of we have a music and Film Department we want to share infrastructure thats the hardest thing for the artists to build an infrastructure that works for them because its competitive and time consuming and difficult so if we make that process easier thats our thing. We want to make it easier for the audience when you go out they want diner beforehand so you dont have to think about where youre going to go over the show thats the project were here to talk about. Were excited to be in the neighborhood that block, of course, weve been in and around that area for a long time on Mission Street between 5 and 6th street running that for 4 years so we know the area its difficult a few blocks up but well be there for a while in the tenderloin if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them one quick question before i pass it on i think telling from is is it a name. Its the Master Tenant at the space but you when we say piano fights its the Production Company and will be the company thats responsible for all entertainment in the space. All right. Commissioner joseph and commissioner hyde. I love that you have sound locks on the doors what kind of sounds like on the outside. Double sheetrock. We have double sheetrock on the walls and ceiling and with installation with regular forearm. Did you test it. We have not measured the tests but weve been out and did a little bit of testing. Thats great your raefrl room is it for the performance. Youre going to do theater and concerts. Maybe that is right driven maybe a small acoustic set that i amplified music is not what we want. Can you run all those rooms together at the same time. Yes. Without blending. We have double sheetrock installation as well too to help. Besides the double sheet installation and the acoustic glue is there other awe civics. Once we finish painting to help with the sound with the transition through the walls. Could you tell me about the presentations and maybe who you talked to at the attained and stuff like this. Weve talked to a few different groups in the weve done a lot of kind of business outreach. And kind of more residential outreach were still working on but obviously theres the best hotel right above us weve been in touch with the management and across the street whats it called . The tenderloin headquarters and we know the management in the hotel. And lets see city impact purchased the property and there you go to, moving into the 4 Story Building and i dont believe any residents but as a tenant but, of course, theyll be our landlords also it will pay to be on good terms with them. Weve taken part in the two take back a block that cesarean director i forget the organization but theyre open turk and thats been really great in terms of reaching out. Its a challenge to enact with the residents on a basis and to know whos living there and not we do our best to keep the presence on the street and really looking forward to tearing down part of the waltz and well be running classes for students and younger kids and then supporting kids from the community to take part in that we want to be a part of the foundational system for the community so thats great commissioner lee. Can you explain on the Audit Community when this place becomes popular can you explain how you are handle people i see how youre handling the line but when the show is over do you let them on this their way. We designed the space at the 965 mitigation it has a lobby with no Security Guard at night we needed to get people into the space but theyre waiting in a building lobby but we designed the space so the restaurants bar would be a more general hang out place. In between when you left the that is right and stepped outside. The idea theres a little cab are a stage not to have entertainment right there when you come out of a show you dont want to go into another show you may want to hang out and sit and chat about what you saw. Hopefully, the space in front will provide that in addition to that we plan on staffing the security staff the whole time were having the shows. We have 3 security cameras at each entrance and 15 feet around our facade and 5 feet around the building as well you

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