May 27, 2015
San Francisco Planning Commission:
Honorable Rodney Fong, President
Honorable Cindy Wu, Vice President
Honorable Michael Antonini, Commissioner
Honorable Rich Hillis, Commissioner
Honorable Christine Johnson, Commissioner
Honorable Kathrin Moore, Commissioner
Honorable Dennis Richards, Commissioner
Mr. John Rahaim, Director of Planning
C/o Mr. Jonas P. Ionin, Commission Secretary
Commission Chambers, Room 400
City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Re: SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING COMMISSION / HEARING & AGENDA
Thursday, May 28, 2015 / 12 pm / Regular Meeting
Agenda Item: 8b. 2014.002701OFA (D.WINSLOW: (415) 575-9159)
EVENT CENTER AND MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT AT MISSION BAY SOUTH BLOCKS 29, 30, 31, & 32: LOT 001 IN ASSESSORS BLOCK 8722 - Informational item, GSW Arena LLC (GSW) proposes to construct a multi-purpose event center, two 11-story office buildings containing 503,900 leasable s.f. office space, public open space, a parking facility and visitor-serving retail uses on MBS blocks 29, 30, 31 and 32. The event center would host the Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team during the NBA season, as well as provide a year-round venue for a variety of other uses, including concerts, cultural events, family shows, conferences and conventions. The site is located in the Mission Bay South Plan Area’s Commercial-Industrial District and an HZ-5 Height District. The office buildings will be brought to a subsequent Planning Commission hearing for and Design Review approval in accord with Resolution 14702. Office allocation pursuant to Planning Code Sections 321 and 322 (the Annual Office Development Limitation program) has already been allocated to the site.
Preliminary Recommendation: None – Informational
San Francisco - Warriors Arena & Event Center / Round The Diamond Proposal:
Warriors Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom©
Dear President Fong, Commissioners and Director Rahaim,
I wholeheartedly support the Golden State Warriors and the City and County of San Francisco in the effort to construct a professional, state-of-the-art Arena & Event Center in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. Also, I want to acknowledge my appreciation to Commissioner Dennis Richards for your comment at the Planning Commission public hearing last December 18, 2014, inquiring about my proposal requesting that the Golden State Warriors consider working in collaboration with San Francisco officials, the San Francisco Unified School District and the business community to include the integration and construction of a High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© strategically located within the Warriors proposed, state-of-the-art Arena & Event Center in San Francisco.
Please review my past proposal material I’ve provided to you, the Warriors and San Francisco officials, including the enclosed letter briefly summarizing my work and ideas from teaching at Juvenile Hall and Log Cabin Ranch that I shared with the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure at their Commission hearing last week on Tuesday, May 19, 2015.
I have continued to share numerous components of my education and career development proposals based on my life’s work, including my effort to gain the support of professional sports teams and organizations to partner with San Francisco, our public high school system and the entire community. I believe this proposed Warriors Arena is a unique opportunity to initiate comprehensive, innovative and real-world educational methodologies and programs capable of maximizing the potential socio-economic and community benefits inherent within our professional sports institutions utilizing these architectural gems - the very Arenas and Stadiums themselves where athletes and artists perform their multi-purpose, influential global businesses.
I am writing today to share one additional thought regarding this specific site that includes both the east and west portions of the proposed Warriors move to San Francisco’s Mission Bay location. The Warrior’s presentation that was shared at the Mission Bay CAC this past April 30, and the OCII Commission hearing held last week on Tuesday, May 19th includes the idea that the Plaza area between the Arena & Event Center and the two Office Buildings, can potentially create an outdoor space capable of broadcasting ‘big screen’ events.
I am suggesting to the Warriors, the Planning Commission, the OCII and city leaders to consider the numerous benefits available that this ‘Outdoor Satellite Classroom’ opportunity can provide in collaboration with the strategically located interior Arena High School-College Career Classroom within the Mission Bay Arena & Event Center. This interior Arena Classroom can offer effective and inspiring incentives through real-world experience and multi-media education, journalism, sports and Arena operations, including a wide-variety of career training and internships; while at the same time expanding exponentially the capacity for this Warriors Indoor Classroom to reach-out to the community through broadcasting the live ballgames and other sports competitions, concerts and events in order to provide numerous additional learning, internships and entertainment options for thousands of additional youth, students, families and gatherings. One of the long-term goals and purposes of this Indoor-Outdoor Classroom model, is to also function and serve to initiate new partnerships and evolving business opportunities throughout our San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area Community, and beyond… all Year-Round.
Thank you once again Commissioners and Director. I appreciate this opportunity to share my life’s work with you and my effort to initiate model sports and educational methodologies and perspectives – as well as the practical and comprehensive applications inherently available through our nation’s Professional Sports Institutions.
In addition, I trust that the tremendous influential role that sports, music, the performing arts and numerous other interdisciplinary professions and careers play within all our communities, can continue to contribute in even more positive and expanded ways through the dynamic architectural Arenas and environmental spaces that can be designed to enhance the lives and opportunities for all sectors of our communities. And at the same time, will create fun, exciting, healthy and successful environments for all our youth, students and families – as well as inspiring new, collaborative and innovative businesses as well.
Through innovative partnerships integrating the long-term professional goals, needs and purposes of our schools, government, businesses, citizens and all our communities, I trust the construction of this San Francisco-Warriors Arena and Event Center in Mission Bay can offer a visionary local, state, national and international model worthy of public and private sector respect and emulation – for generations to come.
I look forward to working with the Warriors and all our City and County of San Francisco public service officials in the most beneficial capacity possible; and thank you once again for your time, consideration, and support.
Sincerely,
Dennis MacKenzie
CC:
Golden State Warriors;
Mr. Joseph Lacob, CEO and Governor, Co-Executive Chairman
Mr. Peter Guber, Co-Executive Chairman
C/o Mr. Rick Welts, President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Theo Ellington, Director, Public Affairs
Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor; City and County of San Francisco
Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee: C/o Ms. Katherine Reilly, Project Mgr/current
C/o Ms. Hilde Myall, Project Manager; (Beginning June 1, 2015) Mission Bay North & South
Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure;
Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor
Honorable Mara Rosales, Chair, and Members
Ms. Tiffany Bohee, Executive Director
C/o Ms. Claudia Guerra, Commission Secretary
San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development
Warriors San Francisco Sports & Entertainment Center Project Team:
C/o Mr. Adam Van Der Water, Project Manager; Mr. John Gavin, Ms. Anne Taupin
San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Honorable London Breed, President, and Members
C/o Ms. Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board
San Francisco Unified School District; Teachers, Principals and Administrators
C/o Mr. Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent, SFUSD
C/o San Francisco Board of Education; C/o Ms. Esther V. Casco, Executive Assistant
United Educators of San Francisco; C/o Mr. Dennis Kelly, President (current)
C/o Ms. Ms. Lita Blanc, President (New Office Holder: July, 1 2015)
Mr. Chris Lanier, Principal; Court Schools, SFUSD
Woodside Learning Center, Juvenile Hall; EMSA; Log Cabin Ranch
Juvenile Probation Commission; Honorable Susan Jones, President, and Members
Juvenile Probation Department; Mr. Allen A. Nance, Chief Probation Officer
Mr. Luis Recinos, Director of Juvenile Hall
Mr. Andres Roemer, Consul General of Mexico, San Francisco
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*Note* To view replay of this Planning Commission public hearing, visit this sf gov.org Cable TV Channel 26 website Link:
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=20&clip_id=23011
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May 18, 2015
Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure
Successor Agency Commission:
Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor
Honorable Mara Rosales, Chair
Honorable Miquel Bustos, Commissioner
Honorable Marily Mondejar, Commissioner
Honorable Darshan Singh, Commissioner
Ms. Tiffany Bohee, Executive Director
Ms. Katherine Reilly, Mission Bay North & South, Project Manager
C/o Ms. Claudia Guerra, Commission Secretary
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Re: * Public Hearing / Regular Agenda – Tuesday, May 19, 2015 / 1:00 pm
#5.d) Workshop on the Combined Basic Concept/Schematic Designs and Event Management Plan for the Golden State Warriors Event Center and Mixed-Use Development on Blocks 29 to 32 in the Mission Bay South Redevelopment Project Area (Discussion)
* Proposal to integrate a High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© within the proposed construction of the SF-Warriors Arena & Event Center; and the potential benefits available through additional components at Woodside Learning Center and Log Cabin Ranch.
Dear Madame Chair Rosales, Commssioners and Director Bohee,
I want to share my support for the Golden State Warriors in their continuing effort to build a state-of-the-art San Francisco Arena & Event Center in Mission Bay. I also want to thank this OCII Commission, and all the San Francisco city agencies, private businesses, neighborhood organizations and citizens working to assist in the successful construction of a Basketball Arena and Event Center that will be capable of providing tremendous economic and social benefits for all sectors of our entire San Francisco Bay Area Community.
I appreciate the wonderful effort that the Warriors have done for Oakland and Bay Area youth through their Warriors Community Foundation that was written about in the SF Chronicle recently by Rusty Simmons, in his article entitled: “Booming program gives aid to youths” on April 13, 2015. The article talks about how after co-owners Joseph Lacob and Peter Guber bought the Warriors, they “…decided to rejuvenate the program and relaunch it in 2013.” They have renovated Basketball Courts around the Bay Area, and focused on the tremendous needs that our ‘underserved communities’ continue to experience. The article notes how Nicole Curran, chair of the Warriors Community Foundation and fiancé of Lacob experienced the sad challenges facing our kids as she managed the “Hoops for Kids” event for the Oakland Youth Development Center; and the heartbreaking decisions many youth and family members of our community must make every day.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce one additional, potential long term benefit that the inclusion of my proposed High School Career Classroom within the Warriors Arena can provide for our Bay Area community; that is, to develop educational and career development opportunities for our youth-at-risk who are making their way through the Juvenile Justice System. In addition to teaching in our SFUSD high schools, I have also been teaching at Woodside Learning Center - the San Francisco Unified School District high school program located inside Juvenile Hall for the past 10 years, including the 9 week Summer School session.
I want to invite the Warriors organization and their Community Foundation department to visit Juvenile Hall during this year’s high school summer program, and ask if the Warriors staff can make a brief 30 minute presentation to the 4 Classes that are held for the boys and girls who would appreciate learning directly from the Warrior organization about future jobs and career possibilities that will exist at the Warrior’s Arena and Event Center. A visit from the Warriors can offer inspiring incentives and learning opportunities and knowledge that can assist them in developing their focus in order to commit to their high school degree programs; as well as demonstrate from experience the wide variety of studies and pathways available and necessary to pursue in college in order to successfully work within any professional sports organization.
The Woodside Learning Center has a small Gymnasium that the Warriors and SFUSD could also utilize for developing educational and career development programs in partnership with the Warriors Community Foundation - as well as at the Log Cabin Ranch county school facility in La Honda. This country setting facility also has a small, separate Gymnasium building a short walk away from the main Education Center that could serve as a potential Basketball skills and education training facility. With cooperation from the Warriors and our San Francisco’s public and private sector leaders, a truly model, practical and far-reaching Education & Career Development Pathway could be created.
Log Cabin Ranch has been struggling for many years to maximize the numerous potential possibilities at this location in Nature. Two years ago when I taught at Log Cabin for the Summer School session, we were visited by several people including SFUSD Board of Education Commissioner Sandra Fewer - who told me the Warriors had just met with SF School officials the day before - a member of Mayor Lee’s staff, and a SF Juvenile Probation Commissioner. They, like many others before and after their visit, have been contemplating and researching ideas and ways to transform this outdoor educational setting into a productive and effective Program for a long time.
Briefly, and in summary, I am asking the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure to consider the potential long-term social, economic growth and community benefits possible that can evolve and expand into future businesses and social health and well-being for our underserved communities through visionary creation of a Partnership between the Golden State Warriors Community Foundation, our San Francisco government agencies, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and other business leaders and our SFUSD and County Schools – including Woodside Learning Center located inside our Juvenile Justice Center/Youth Guidance Center, and Log Cabin Ranch.
Once again, I wish the Golden State Warriors and the entire San Francisco Community all the best in successfully building this Warriors Arena & Event Center in Mission Bay.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience and working with the Warriors and the City and County of San Francisco in the most beneficial capacity possible.
Go Warriors! ~
Sincerely,
Dennis G. MacKenzie
CC:
Golden State Warriors;
Mr. Joseph Lacob, CEO and Governor, Co-Executive Chairman
Mr. Peter Guber, Co-Executive Chairman
C/o Mr. Rick Welts, President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Theo Ellington, Director, Public Affairs
Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee;
C/o Ms. Katherine Reilly, Mission Bay North & South, Project Manager
San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development
Warriors San Francisco Sports & Entertainment Center Project Team;
C/o Mr. John Gavin, Mr. Adam Van Der Water, Ms. Anne Taupin
San Francisco Planning Commission and Director of Planning;
Honorable Rodney Fong, President, and Members
Mr. John Rahaim, Director of Planning
C/o Mr. Jonas P. Ionin, Commission Secretary
San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Honorable London Breed, President, and Members
C/o Ms. Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board
Mr. Chris Lanier, Principal, Court Schools; Woodside Learning Center/EMSA/Log Cabin
San Francisco Unified School District; Teachers, Principals and Administrators
C/o Mr. Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent, SFUSD
C/o San Francisco Board of Education; C/o Ms. Esther V. Casco, Executive Assistant
United Educators of San Francisco; C/o Mr. Dennis Kelly President
Juvenile Probation Commission; Honorable Susan Jones, President, and Members
Juvenile Probation Department; Mr. Allen A. Nance, Chief Probation Officer
Mr. Luis Recinos, Director of Juvenile Hall
Mr. Andres Roemer, Consul General of Mexico, San Francisco
*Note* To view replay of this Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure public hearing, visit this sf gov.org Cable TV Channel 26 website Link:
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=169&clip_id=22810**********************
January 10, 2015
Happy New Year San Francisco Teachers, Coaches, Athletic Directors, Principals, Parents, Families, Business Leaders and Community;
I am requesting the support of the Golden State Warriors and all our San Francisco Public Service and Government Officials, Agencies and Private Sector Business Leaders to work in collaboration in order to initiate a Public-Private Non-Profit Foundation, dedicated to financially fund and create the inclusion of a Warriors Arena High School Classroom inside the proposed Warriors-San Francisco Event and Entertainment Center in Mission Bay.
Please review the two letters below that I presented at the Public Hearings of San Francisco’s Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure, and the San Francisco Planning Commission that I'm sharing with all our San Francisco Leaders and the Golden State Warriors. I also am providing several SF Government website Links where you can email your own ideas, suggestions and support to create a Model professional Warriors/NBA Arena Classroom capable of providing long-term practical, real-world education and career development programs for the benefit of our entire diverse, multi-cultural San Francisco Community - for generations to come.
Thank you for your time and support.
Dennis MacKenzie
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January 3, 2015
Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure
Successor Agency Commission:
Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor
Honorable Mara Rosales, Chair
Honorable Miguel Bustos, Commissioner
Honorable Marily Mondejar, Commissioner
Honorable Darshan Singh, Commissioner
Ms. Tiffany Bohee, Executive Director
C/o Ms. Claudia Guerra, Commission Secretary
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Re: Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure
Successor Agency Commission Public Hearing / Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 1:00pm
Agenda Item, 5b: Workshop on the Major Phase for the Golden State Warriors Event Center
& Mixed-Use Development/Blocks 29-32 in the Mission Bay South Redevelopment Project Area.
San Francisco – Warriors Arena & Event Center / Round The Diamond Proposals©
Warriors Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom©
Arena Astronomy & Education Roof-Top Observatory Deck©
Dear Chair Rosales and Commissioners,
I am respectfully requesting that the Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure consider this proposed Warriors Multi-Purpose Facility as an opportunity to invest in our entire City and County of San Francisco Community now - and into the future for generations to come.
I am asking that the OCII work together with all other San Francisco public service and Government agencies and officials, the Golden State Warriors and local private sector business and non-profit organizations and leaders in order to initiate and establish a “Public-Private Non-Profit Foundation” specifically dedicated to raise funds to support the successful design, construction, implementation and long-term operations of a professional sports, business and educational public-private partnership that has ‘never been done before’. That is to say, to create and build a Model Warriors Arena High School Classroom will be well worth the investment necessary to provide interdependent and mutually beneficial, Year-Round education and jobs/career development Programs strategically located inside this visionary, state-of-the-art Warriors Arena and Event Center. This facility can inspire and attract a wide variety of newly evolving businesses through cooperative sports and education ventures and events within the Warrior’s Arena and Site location in Mission Bay.
Please review my enclosed letter I presented to the SF Planning Commission on 12/18/14 and others I’ve shared with you, the OEWD and other SF Agencies. The letter I gave to the Mission Bay CAC on 9/17/14 outlines some of the local, national and international goals, objectives and benefits - including how the evolution of an Arena Classroom can serve as a magnet to attract and meet schools from other districts, colleges and universities, teachers, business and government leaders in order to mutually share, learn and connect with our Community, all year-round. At the same time, San Francisco can enhance and expand our capacity to creatively assist in developing new business opportunities and healthy cultural Sister-City relationships through creation of cross-cultural sports and education, jobs, and career development and business exchange programs from around the state, country and throughout the Americas. Some of these updates can be reviewed on my Website: RoundTheDiamond.com.
I look forward to hearing from you, and working with the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco’s public agencies, private sector business and community leaders in the most beneficial capacity possible.
Thank you once again for your time, consideration, and support.
Sincerely, Dennis MacKenzie
CC:
Golden State Warriors;
Mr. Joseph Lacob, CEO and Governor, Co-Executive Chairman
Mr. Peter Guber, Co-Executive Chairman
C/o Mr. Rick Welts, President and Chief Operating Officer
San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development
Warriors San Francisco Sports & Entertainment Center Project Team;
C/o Mr. John Gavin, Mr. Adam Van Der Water, Ms. Anne Taupin
San Francisco Planning Commission and Director of Planning;
C/o Mr. Jonas P. Ionin, Commission Secretary
San Francisco Board of Supervisors;
C/o Ms. Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board
San Francisco Unified School District; Teachers, Coaches, A.D's, Principals and Administrators
Mr. Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent, SFUSD
San Francisco Board of Education; C/o Ms. Esther V. Casco, Executive Assistant
United Educators of San Francisco; C/o Mr. Dennis Kelly President
Mr. Andres Roemer, Consul General of Mexico, San Francisco
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December 17, 2014
San Francisco Planning Commission
Ms. Cindy Wu, President
Mr. Rodney Fong, Vice President
Mr. Michael Antonini, Commissioner
Mr. Rich Hillis, Commissioner
Ms. Christine D. Johnson, Commissioner
Ms. Kathrin Moore, Commissioner
Mr. Dennis Richards, Commissioner
Mr. John Rahaim, Director of Planning
C/o Mr. Jonas P. Ionin, Commission Secretary
Commission Chambers, Room 400
City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Re: SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING COMMISSION / HEARING & AGENDA
Thursday, December 18, 2014 / 12 pm / Regular Meeting
Agenda Item: F.8 REGULAR CALENDAR 2014.1441OFA (D. WINSLOW: (415) 575-9159)
EVENT CENTER AND MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT AT MISSION BAY SOUTH BLOCKS
29, 30, 31, & 32: LOT 001 IN ASSESSORS BLOCK 8722 - Informational Presentation, GSW Arena LLC (GSW) proposes to construct a multi-purpose event center, two 11-story office buildings containing 503,900 leasable s.f. office space, public open space, a parking facility and visitor-serving retail uses on an approximately 11-acre site in Mission Bay Redevelopment Plan Area (MBS blocks 29, 30, 31 and 32). The event center would host the Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team during the NBA season, as well as provide a year-round venue for a variety of other uses, including concerts, cultural events, family shows, conferences and conventions. The site is located in the Mission Bay South Plan Area’s Commercial-Industrial District and HZ-5 Height District. The office buildings will be brought to a subsequent Planning Commission hearing for and Design Review approval in accord with Resolution 14702. Office allocation pursuant to Planning Code Sections 321 and 322 (the Annual Office Development Limitation program) has already been allocated to the site.
Preliminary Recommendation: None – Informational
San Francisco - Warriors Arena & Event Center / Round The Diamond Proposal©:
Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom©
Arena Roof-Top Astronomy & Education Observatory Deck©
Dear President Wu and Commissioners,
Please review the long-time proposal materials and communications I’ve provided to you and all San Francisco public officials and agencies over the past 5 years, requesting that the Golden State Warriors and City and County of San Francisco leaders collaborate in partnership to include the construction of my Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© proposal as a model facility inside the Warrior Arena and Event Center and Mixed-Use Development project in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood.
I am writing to ask that you consider the long-term comprehensive benefits that a model education and career development Classroom integrated within the original design and construction of this proposed Warriors professional Basketball Arena and Event Center can have for all our students, schools, families and non-profit organizations - all Year-Round; as well as for the future health and well-being of all our diverse and cross-cultural socio-economic communities and business sectors. I trust the implementation of this Classroom can provide wide-spread, comprehensive incentives and numerous positive influences, opportunities and benefits for San Francisco, Oakland and our entire Bay Area Community - all Year-Round.
As you consider the potential benefits and challenges in building this Warrior’s new Arena and Events Center, I respectfully ask that you offer your support for the inclusion of this Arena High School Classroom, and ask your staff to study the numerous potential opportunities available in order to enhance and expand San Francisco’s capacity to initiate, create and develop new and innovative public-private partnerships that can benefit the Golden State Warriors professional basketball team and organization – as well as all of San Francisco as a whole.
I’ve also shared with you in the past the idea and possibility that this Warriors Arena offers the potential opportunity to create entertaining, inspiring and educational career guidance and development programs through the construction of a Roof-Top Astronomy Education & Observatory Deck© within this new Mission Bay site. If the Arena roof-top deck location is not feasible, maybe the Warriors along with local business leaders and officials could consider a more effective and productive location for an Astronomy program on a roof-top of an office building or other location within the Warriors Mission Bay site.
As you move forward in this early phase of your discussions and consider different ideas and concepts, I respectfully ask the Warriors and all city and business leaders consider the potential positive benefits that may be available and worthy of your efforts to consider. For example, as I’ve stated in my earlier proposal updates there could be local, state, national and international, Cross-Cultural Sports & Education Exchange Programs© developed utilizing this Warriors Arena Classroom as a model - and magnet - facility. If the comprehensive socio-economic, education, jobs and business growth possible through creation of a sports, education and business exchange program associated with this Arena were studied and explored, I believe this could provide numerous valuable, comprehensive and long range benefits utilized through the successful inclusion and evolution of this model Classroom within the new Warriors Arena.
I want to take this opportunity to thank the Golden State Warriors, the Planning Commission and all the San Francisco public-service government Agencies and officials working in effective collaboration on this effort to build a state-of-the-art, visionary and model San Francisco Home for the Warriors Arena and Event Center in Mission Bay.
I look forward to working with the Warriors and all City and County of San Francisco officials in order to build a truly model Sports & Education Facility worthy of local, state and international respect and emulation – for generations to come.
Thank you once again for your time, consideration, and support.
Sincerely,
Dennis G. MacKenzie
CC: Warriors and City and County of San Francisco Public Service and Government Agencies & Officials
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Happy New Year San Francisco Teachers, Coaches, Athletic Directors, Principals, Parents, Families, Business Leaders and Community;
When you have a little time, check out the link below to The Planning Commission Hearing on 12/18/14, where the Warriors gave an Arena & Event Center Site design workshop presentation - its worth seeing if you want to know where this Arena process is at; and it offers a good opportunity to see and hear some of the major players for the Warriors and City officials in charge of the project. My 3 minute public comment is at the 1:18/minute mark; also, during Commissioners Questions & Comments at the 1:46/mark, Commissioner Dennis Richards asked where my proposal stands - and the Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts responded briefly.
The decisions are now being made regarding this entire new Mission Bay Site, as well as the interior design of the Golden State Warriors Event Center and Mixed-Use Development in Mission Bay. This is the best time for the Warriors and City officials to hear any ideas and support for how this Classroom can be used in numerous inspiring ways capable of offering year-round incentives through innovative and effective Programs benefiting all our students, High Schools, Colleges and Community as a whole; as well as assisting in the creation of new jobs and careers, and inspiring new business opportunities. Also, this Arena Classroom can serve as a Model for how professional sports institutions and their facilities themselves can be inherently utilized as an 'Educational Methodology' through practical, real-world knowledge, education, experience and development of career skills for students, young adults and local communities and organizations.
These practical education and professional career training programs can also be offered to our local Non-Profit Youth Organizations, including the use of this Classroom on weekends, during summer school and summer vacation. This Classroom facility can be utilized before, during and after the over 200 events, 40+ Warrior Basketball games, and numerous college and high school basketball games and a variety of other sports and entertainment tournaments - all providing Year-Round learning and teaching opportunities.
Please pass these links on to colleagues, teachers, educators, families and others you know who work with schools and non-profit organizations interested in sharing their ideas and emailing their support on how this Classroom can initiate and expand long-term, comprehensive community access for San Francisco, Oakland and Bay Area schools and local programs... thank you.
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Follow this link to the San Francisco Planning Commission Public Hearing on December 18, 2014:
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=20&clip_id=21697
Agenda Item F.8; Event Center and Mixed-Use Development at Mission Bay, Agenda Item F. 8; Description: The mission of the Planning Department is to guide the orderly and prudent use of land, in both natural and built environments, with the purpose of improving the quality of life and embracing the diverse perspectives of those who live in, work in, and visit San Francisco.
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This link is a power-point presentation with design of the Warriors Site Plan and Arena Event Center project:
http://sfocii.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=8016
You can also see Replays of all SF City Government meetings, including this 12/18/14 Planning Commission Hearing, as well as the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) Public Hearing on January 6, 2015 on SFGovTV Channel 78; live and Replays of meetings are also on SFGovTV Channel 26: http://www.sfgovtv.org/index.aspx?page=88
All these San Francisco Public Meetings are always replayed several times during the two weeks following the live Broadcasts, and are also available in their Archives Link where you can see them Online anytime.
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To follow the San Francisco Warriors Arena Project progress and developing information, please visit the SF Government Website Link for the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure at: http://sfocii.org/index.aspx?page=61
Public Comment Email Form where you can send your comments and suggestions, including support for my proposal to construct a High School Career Pathway Classroom inside the Arena.
http://sfgov.org/piers3032/mission-bay-pavilion-project-feedback-form
Thanks once again ~ Dennis
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December 18, 2014
Ms. Tiffany Bohee, Executive Director
Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure
C/o Mr. Brett Bollinger
San Francisco Planning Department
1660 Mission Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
Re: Public Notice / Availability of Notice of Preparation of Environmental Impact Report
Case # Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII): EIR 2014-919-97
Event Center and Mixed-Use Development at Mission Bay Blocks 29-31
This is a request for the OCII/Planning Department’s Environmental Impact Report to include a study of the potential for long-term, comprehensive socio-economic land use environment and public & private sector benefits available through the Warriors Arena and Event Center that can be created for the mutual benefit of the Golden State Warriors Team and Organization, as well as the interdependent health and well-being of our current and future environmental/human and natural resources throughout the City and County of San Francisco and our entire San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area communities - and beyond.
San Francisco - Warriors Arena & Event Center / Round The Diamond Proposals©:
Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom©
Arena Roof-Top Astronomy & Education Observatory Deck©
Cross-Cultural Sports & Education Exchange Programs©
Sports & Education Visitors Housing Facility©
Dear Ms. Bohee and Mr. Bollinger,
I am requesting that the EIR process include a study of the potential long-term, comprehensive and positive socio-economic benefits and impacts available through the successful integration and creation of a model High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© built within the Golden State Warrior’s Event Center and Mixed-Use Development in the Mission Bay neighborhood.
I also ask that this EIR process study the interdependent public-private sector benefits that this NBA’s Golden State Warriors Arena Classroom can provide for our entire diverse, cross-cultural San Francisco communities through maximizing, enhancing, expanding and attracting new jobs, career and business opportunities and partnerships through the creation of model education and career development programs, including those briefly outlined here - as well as the further detailed description of my enclosed Arena Classroom proposal Summary dated September 9, 2014.
Please review my enclosed proposal communications I’ve shared with the Warriors and all the San Francisco public officials and agencies involved in the proposed SF-Warriors Arena over the past 5 years, as well as my recent, and related letters regarding my questions and comments dated; 12.17.14, and 12.15.14.
I respectfully ask that your study of the potential benefits this Arena Classroom can provide for the long-term future health and well-being of all our students, schools, families, non-profit organizations and San Francisco, will assist in building a model professional sports facility worthy of national and international respect and emulation.
I trust the implementation of this innovative and collaborative, Career Development Classroom can provide far-reaching incentives and effective, practical, real-world experience, inspirational opportunities and immeasurable benefits for all our San Francisco, Oakland and the entire Bay Area Community… all year-round.
Thank you very much for your time and research involved in the challenging work ahead in order to produce your important, and comprehensive Environmental Impact Report for this Warriors Event Center and Mixed-Use Development at Mission Bay Blocks 29-32.
Sincerely, Dennis MacKenzie
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September 29, 2014
San Francisco High School Teachers, Athletic Directors, Principals, Families, San Francisco Unified School District Officials, Government & Public-Private Sector Agencies, Non-Profit Foundations and Community Leaders;
Please review my enclosed SF-Warriors Arena Classroom proposal update; this is a brief summary and description of the several major components of my long-time sports, education and career development proposals that I wrote and developed based on my Master’s Thesis in 1985, and submitted to the San Francisco Giant's owner Bob Lurie, Mayor Dianne Feinstein and SF Board of Supervisors at that time. I have shared the continued research and evolution of my proposal with numerous San Francisco city officials and private sector leaders including the SF Chamber of Commerce, Port Commission and Port of SF and staff, SF Mayors and Supervisors - and many other local, state and national leaders and officials since 1985.
The letter below summarizes my proposal and interrelated components that have evolved and developed over time, and what I have for the past 5 years submitted to the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco city public and private sector officials. I am respectfully requesting that the Warriors integrate within the original design and construction of their proposed Arena & Multi-Purpose Pavilion, an Arena High School & College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© in collaboration with San Francisco public and private sector agencies, officials, the Mission Bay neighborhood and citizens and community leaders throughout San Francisco. I believe this new SF-Warriors Arena is capable of providing our entire San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area Community with an opportunity to initiate the creation of a model, state-of-the-art Arena Classroom worthy of local, state, national and international respect and emulation - for generations to come.
I am asking San Francisco public and private school teachers, principals, administrators, families, non-profit youth and community leaders and educators, private sector leaders, Organizations and Foundations take the time necessary to contemplate - and imagine - the tremendous long-term value and opportunities available through the integration of this Arena Classroom proposal; as well as the potential far-reaching socio-economic programs and possibilities that inclusion of the additional cross-cultural education and innovative, real-world career development components I am proposing, can provide for San Francisco - and beyond.
Also, please feel free to answer the call from our City and County of San Francisco officials and the Golden State Warriors NBA Team’s Organization and leadership, who are asking for input from San Francisco citizens, communities and public and private sector businesses and leaders to share your own ideas and suggestions. This Warriors Arena offers San Francisco an opportunity to develop Year-Round access and programs that can assist in the creation of a truly model, first-of-its-kind strategically located interior Warriors Arena Career Classroom capable of integrating numerous interdisciplinary knowledge, practical leadership experiences and life-long benefits for the future of all our students, youth, families, businesses and entire San Francisco Community.
I believe this Arena Classroom, as well as the several related model educational components I have been proposing, can assist in providing numerous benefits through the development of these collaborative educational methodologies and programs. At the same time - as a major intention and purpose of the long-term goals and objectives of this proposal - I trust that the creation and establishment of national and international Models will inspire comprehensive, innovative and far-reaching influence and impacts with the capacity to enhance and expand positive growth, guidance and direction in order to assist our nation's focus as we move forward building visionary Sports Arenas and Facilities now and into the future... for generations to come.
I look forward to offering my assistance in the work that lies ahead in order to achieve the best and highest attainable benefits for individuals, public and private sector businesses, the Golden State Warriors and all levels of our widely diverse socio-economic and cross-cultural Community of San Francisco.
Once again, thank you very much for your time, consideration and support in my effort to work with the Golden State Warriors NBA Team and the City and County of San Francisco in the most beneficial capacity possible.
Sincerely,
Dennis MacKenzie
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NOTE:
Included below is the Website Link to the Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee's (CAC) "Citizen Feedback Form", where you can send your own comments, ideas and suggestions; as well as support for my Warriors Arena Classroom - and also join their mailing list to receive up-to-date information and continuing progress of the Warriors Arena and Pavilion Project.
Also, I am sharing a Link to a Video Presentation of a recent interview given by Golden State Warrior Owners Joseph Lacob, Peter Guber, and President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts regarding the new Mission Bay Arena location that includes additional information and perspectives regarding this SF-Arena Project.
Thank you once again for your time and interest in contributing your thoughts in order to design and build the most comprehensive, visionary “Warriors San Francisco Sports & Entertainment Center” we can imagine - and assist in creating model, innovative Year-Round programs and benefits for our entire San Francisco Bay Area Community... for generations to come.
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#1 - http://sfocii.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=7341 * View the Warriors power point Presentation of their initial Mission Bay Site & Design Concept for the new Arena.
#2 - http://sfgov.org/piers3032/mission-bay-pavilion-project-feedback-form * Public Comment Email Form, where you can send your comments and suggestions - including support for my proposal to construct a High School Career Pathway Classroom inside the Arena.
#3 - http://sfocii.org/index.aspx?page=61 * Website Link to the San Francisco Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure, one of the lead San Francisco Government Agencies responsible for development of the SF-Warriors Arena Project in Mission Bay, where you can join the Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) Mailing List to receive continuing up-to-date information, and follow the progress of the Warriors Arena Project.
#4 - http://www.nba.com/warriors/sf * Interview with the Warriors Owners and Rick Welts/President & Chief Operating Officer that offers lots of up-to-date information and perspectives from the Warriors on this Website Link * Note from the Warriors Website; What's the best way to stay up to date on all news and information surrounding this project? Updates, news and answers to frequently asked questions will be posted to this site throughout the development process. You can also stay up to date on all arena-related news by following our official Facebook (facebook.com/warriorssfarena) and Twitter accounts (@warriorssfarena). Fans are also welcome to send their thoughts and suggestions to the Warriors via email at SFArena@warriors.com.
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September 17, 2014
Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee;
C/o Ms. Corrine Woods, Chair Tom Hart
Mr. Kevin Simons, Vice-Chair Andrea Jones
Kevin Beauchamp Toby Levine
Sarah Davis JoAnne Lock
Dan Deibel Dick Millet
Donna Dell’Era Jennifer Pratt Meade
Alfonso Felder Catherine Sharpe
Michael D. Freeman Milena Elperin
Re: Mission Bay CAC - September 18, 2014 Meeting / September 20, 2014 Special Workshop Agenda 1. Action Item: Presentation of the Draft Major Phase Site Design and Building Massing for the Golden State Warriors Project (Blocks 29-32) bounded by Third Street, South Street, 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard – Representatives from the Warriors and Design Team – 90 minutes.
Description of Item: Representatives from the Golden State Warriors and their design team will present and solicit community feedback on the draft major phase site design and building massing for the Golden State Warriors Project. There will be workshop on Saturday, September 20, 2014.
SF-Warriors Arena & Cultural Events Pavilion
Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom©
Cross-Cultural Sports & Education Exchange Programs©
Arena Astronomy & Education Roof-Top Observatory Deck©
Dear Mission Bay CAC Members,
As you and the Mission Bay community begin this new process to study, review, critique, offer and receive suggestions and ideas regarding this initial phase of the ‘Draft Major Phase Site Design and Building Massing’ for the Golden State Warriors Project, I respectfully ask that you and San Francisco citizens, families, public and private sector officials, business leaders and investors consider the wide range of potential socio-economic benefits that can provide neighborhood and city wide innovative opportunities that will affect your immediate Mission Bay neighborhood, as well as our entire San Francisco Bay Area as a whole - far into the future.
I am writing to ask that before this first major site design phase is complete, please take into consideration the long-term potential positive impacts and socio-economic benefits that several of my proposal ideas can have in relation to this current study of the exterior site design concept for the proposed SF-Warriors Arena & Multi-Purpose Entertainment & Events Pavilion.
I have proposed to the Warriors, San Francisco public officials and the community at-large, to review and consider the inclusion and construction of an Arena Astronomy & Education Roof-Top Observatory Deck© that could be strategically located on the roof-top above the Warriors Event Hall area of the Arena. This location is where Snohetta’s Craig Dykers suggested in the slide-show presentation of their initial project site design concept at last month’s CAC meeting where the Warriors are considering to include an Arena roof-top deck. If this location is not deemed possible or practical, maybe it could be built on the roof-top of one of the project’s other buildings; or even another location within the Arena property itself. (Of course, a ‘Roof-Top’ Astronomy Observatory Deck would be a more perfect ‘sky-viewing location’!)
A few of the main purposes for this Astronomy Observatory would be to provide a unique and valuable Year-Round attraction for many educational, fun and exciting programs; and a magical and beneficial addition for San Francisco citizens, students and the entire Bay Area community for multi-dimensional (as well as ‘real out~of~this~world galactic’ perspectives) education and career guidance; as well as offering a wide variety of dynamic entertainment and events. (I briefly describe elements of this component in my proposal letter dated February 25, 2013.)
Because this new Mission Bay location offers very different Arena site dimensions with a new building design and height limits than Piers 30-32 offered, I am asking the CAC to take this initial phase as an opportunity to consider as a part of your discussions of the evolving Arena design, footprint and landscape, how this change of location has opened up new possibilities for developing creative and interdependent community programs, businesses and benefits that were not available at the previous location. On this note, please review my Cross-Cultural Sports & Education Exchange Program© component during this early phase that deals with the new site design, and consider the potential long-term opportunities and benefits that the integration and implementation of this program can provide within the Arena footprint – or built near-by.
Also, one of the purposes for the initiation and creation of Sister-City relationships as it relates to how this Warriors project can provide positive and mutually respectful and beneficial cross-cultural bridges for everyone involved, is the inclusion of career and business development projects in collaboration with this San Francisco Warriors Arena Pavilion project. I believe this Warriors SF Arena project is a unique, and magnificent opportunity to initiate innovative and inspiring public/private partnerships and programs capable of enhancing and expanding creative and cooperative growth for the benefit of San Francisco, Oakland, and the entire Bay Area.
One of the goals of my original primary proposal component, is the integration and construction of an Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© within professional sports Arenas, Ballparks, Stadiums and Facilities. This Arena Classroom can serve all our communities, including through building positive and mutually respectful cross-cultural bridges for the benefit of everyone involved as an effective, real-world educational methodology capable of integrating a wide variety of career and business development projects within and around this SF-Warriors Arena Pavilion project; as well as throughout San Francisco’s diverse cross-cultural communities and neighborhoods.
In this regard, one of the main objectives for this cross-cultural exchange program component is to include the successful implementation and establishment of innovative and visionary Sister-City Relationships across the country, and throughout the Americas. On this note, if the Warriors and San Francisco leaders and officials support the inclusion of an Arena Career Classroom, this facility can provide the capacity to invite visiting school leaders, students and teachers, as well as business and government officials and leaders to meet and exchange knowledge and constructive friendships and business contacts with our students, teachers, and local public-private sector officials at this SF-Warriors Arena Classroom. This Arena Classroom can bring together the exchange of positive ideas, education and career development programs that can provide practical, real-world experiences being shared and taken back to the visitor’s cities and their schools, students, educators, businesses, government and community leaders.
In addition - if feasible and economically beneficial - I am asking that the Warriors and San Francisco leaders and investors consider building a Cross-Cultural Visitors Center & Housing Facility© within the Warriors new Mission Bay location as an integral element in order to assist in the leadership of creating and developing model sports and education exchange programs for the benefit of our San Francisco education and business institutions, as well as visiting officials and schools from cities and states across our nation - and throughout the Americas. (Or, if not possible within the Warriors arena site, hopefully a cooperative venture can be created to construct this type of Sports & Education Exchange Program & Visitors Facility© near-by.)
In regards to my proposal, I’ve mentioned most of these component ideas and further details several times at public hearings and in my writings and proposal update letters; including the fact that the City and County of San Francisco has already developed numerous Sister-City Relationships around the world. However, we have yet to create these beneficial cross-cultural partnerships with any country throughout the Americas - which I believe San Francisco will eventually initiate for the obvious inherent beneficial opportunities that come from establishing cooperative social, economic, education and business global partnerships for all concerned.
These two following announcements are on the ‘Office of the Mayor’ website in the ‘News Release’ section: “Mayor Lee Launches LatinSF Initiative; San Francisco Expands International Efforts to Create Greater Economic Ties with New Initiative to Strengthen Relationship between Latin America & United States; First Partnership Started with Mexico - Posted Date: 9/9/2014”, and; Mayor Lee Launches LatinSF Initiative: Mayor Edwin M. Lee officially launched the LatinSF economic development initiative at Silicon Valley Day in Mexico City as part of his official trade mission to Latin America. Modeled after the groundbreaking China-San Francisco economic development initiative ChinaSF, LatinSF is a new economic development initiative to promote business and trade between San Francisco and Latin America. Posted Date: 9/9/2014.
Also in the San Francisco Chronicle there is a headline article written by Carla Marinucci about the visit with Governor Jerry Brown in Sacramento by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, where she writes: “The two leaders…also pledged cooperation on educational programs, including an unprecedented exchange that would bring 100,000 Mexican students to study at California universities.”; Marinucci also writes, “Mexico’s consul general in San Francisco, Andres Roemer, said he has invited Mayor Ed Lee for a stay at his home in Mexico City starting Sept 8…We want to become friends and strengthen this relationship”, Roemer said.
I believe this SF-Warriors Arena Project is a unique and magnificent opportunity to initiate innovative public-private partnerships and programs capable of enhancing and expanding positive and creative growth for all of San Francisco, Oakland and the entire Bay Area’s wonderfully diverse, cross-cultural communities.
Once again, I am requesting that the Warriors - in collaboration with numerous San Francisco investors, public agencies, our local colleges, universities and institutions, public and private high schools including San Francisco Unified School District officials and educators - consider the unlimited interdependent, socio-economic and job creation opportunities and benefits available through implementation of these proposals as model programs integrated into the design and construction of this Warriors-San Francisco professional Multi-Purpose Arena & Pavilion.
At the same time, I trust that the creation of this new Warriors Arena & Facility with the inclusion of this comprehensive model Classroom, will serve as a national model capable of developing innovative and influential educational methodologies for our San Francisco Bay Area, and throughout the country. In offering this blueprint for other cities and professional sports teams and industries in order to build successful future public-private partnerships and collaborations, I trust the Warriors and San Francisco will keep in mind the important and responsible leadership roles that our sports teams, political and corporate leaders and officials - and many others - play in building positive and rewarding social and city environments for the health and well-being of all members of our Community today… and future generations to come.
I trust the Warriors and San Francisco public and private sector leaders will work together and utilize the innate positive qualities and strengths of our Nation’s professional sports Institutions, and the multi-dimensional influence and responsibilities that they hold. Through innovative and effective education, career guidance and practical real-world job training pathways and leadership skills experience, this cooperative venture can build a San Francisco Warriors Multi-Purpose Arena & Pavilion worthy of the citizens and investors from the entire San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area Community - and far beyond.
Please review the proposal material I provided to you at the May 8, 2014 CAC meeting that included these following letters dated: February 11, 2014 - April 7, 2014 - February 25, 2013 - and February 9, 2009, which all include brief descriptions and details regarding these proposal components I am reminding you of today; as well as my original, primary High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© proposal that I’ve shared for the past 5 years with the Warriors, and all City and County of San Francisco government officials and private sector leaders involved in the Warriors effort to build a Multi-Purpose Arena in San Francisco.
I respectfully ask that you consider the potential wide range of local, state and national social, cross-cultural, business and economic benefits inherently available through the cooperative integration and implementation of these sports, education and career development proposals.
You’re welcome to contact me if you have questions, or would like further clarification in regards to any of the proposal components I have outlined in this summary. You can review my current and earlier proposal information, updates and communications that I’ve shared with the Warriors organization and San Francisco public agencies and officials posted on my Website: www.roundthediamond.com.
I look forward to working in collaboration with the Golden State Warriors and all City and County of San Francisco public leaders and agencies, as well as the Mission Bay CAC and all San Francisco citizens, private sector and business leaders in the most beneficial capacity possible.
Thank you once again for your time, consideration, and support.
Sincerely,
Dennis G. MacKenzie
CC:
Golden State Warriors;
Mr. Joseph Lacob, Co-Executive Chairman, CEO & Governor
Mr. Peter Guber, Co-Executive Chairman
C/o Mr. Rick Welts, President and Chief Operating Officer
Honorable Ed Lee, Mayor; City and County of San Francisco
Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure,
Successor Agency Commission;
Honorable Mara Rosales, Chair
Honorable Marily Mondejar
Honorable Darshan Singh
C/o Ms. Lucinda Nguyen, Interim Commission Secretary
Ms. Tiffany Bohee, Executive Director; OCII
Ms. Catherine Reilly, Mission Bay North & South, Project Manager
C/o Ms. Lila Hussain, Assistant Project Manager
San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development
Warriors Arena & Pavilion Project Team;
C/o Ms. Jennifer Matz, Waterfront Development Director
Mr. John Gavin, Ms. Anne Taupin, Mr. Adam Van De Water
Mr. Andres Roemer, Consul General of Mexico, San Francisco
San Francisco Board of Supervisors; President David Chiu, and Members
C/o Ms. Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board
San Francisco Planning Commission;
Honorable Cindy Wu, President, and Members
C/o Mr. Jonas P. Ionin, Commission Secretary
Mr. John Rahaim, Director of Planning; SF Planning Department
San Francisco Unified School District; Teachers, Principals and Administrators
C/o Mr. Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent
San Francisco Board of Education; C/o Ms. Esther V Casco, Executive Assistant
United Educators of San Francisco; C/o Mr. Dennis Kelly, President
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