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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 1 ....
Any other Public Comment on this item . Okay. With that, Public Comment is closed. Commission koppel. Its a thrill to see city kids opening up businesses in the city. Supported by other city kids. [applause] theres no clapping. I know everybodys happy but [laughter] also incredibly impressed with the outreach the project sponsor did with united save the mission, hence them being here supporting. And also the conditions they did agree to, we really hold in high value. So i really appreciate the project sponsor working diligently with the community. I really respect that the sponsor has Prior Experience working in the neighborhood. Obviously very overwhelming neighborhood support, filling in a vacant storefront. The nearby businesses are going to get busier. Theres going to be more people. People are going to be happier. ....
Around the nonrestricted accessory parking brought up by walk sf that included this as with the tdm an exemption for projects that are not seriousy parking. It is important to separate this into two separate issues just for the jargon when we say accessory parking under the code to be dedicated to a specific lowell high scho; right . This is a parking space the tdm program doesnt apply to the stand alone parking garages this is the sole purpose of the use you know if someone was proposing to build a parking garages who will they give the subsidies to why put a realtime display. Did you have a conversation with walk sf. We had the conversation with stakeholders over time this is one situation that in happen often the other issue weve acknowledged when you have a project being built like a highrise and have a certain amount of parking and request additional parking not accessory and technical it is supposed to function as a parking garage but when in the real world are they using it as a ....