ADVISORY/ Assembly Majority Leader Kevin Shelley Featured At Press Conference to Launch Revitalization of Local Businesses During the Cannery Comeback Party.

News Editors

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 25)

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2002 AT 5:15 P.M. PST 

WHAT:   Assembly Majority Leader Kevin Shelley, alongside several
        affected independent merchants, will discuss the ongoing
        efforts to rebuild Cannery and waterfront businesses and will
        help launch a major revival of the Fisherman's Wharf tourism
        industry.

WHY:    After more than 100 media stories reported that the fire at
        the Haslett Warehouse had also burned The Cannery, merchants
        within The Cannery suffered a dramatic downturn in business.
        Assembly Majority Leader Kevin Shelley is working on behalf of
        these independent merchants to settle outstanding insurance
        claims and restore activity to The Cannery's shops and
        restaurants.

        "We have suffered a tremendous setback after the Haslett
        Warehouse fire because many, many people think that we've
        burnt down. Business prior to the fire was beginning to return
        to pre-September 11, 2001, levels. The added difficulties of
        street closures, other construction-related obstacles, and
        hassles with insurance claims, have posed a real problem for
        businesses in the area. We are here to set the record
        straight, to appeal to those groups who can support us, namely
        San Franciscans, taxi drivers, cable car gripmen, to tell the
        local community that we are behind the revitalization of the
        waterfront and to tell the world: `The Cannery is open for
        business!'"
              -- Chris Martin, Managing Partner, The Cannery

        The Cannery neighborhood extravaganza, the Cannery Comeback
        Party, will be held on Tuesday, June 25, from 4 to 8 p.m.
        Featuring Can-Can girls, an awards ceremony for firemen and
        other local heroes who helped fight the five-alarm fire, free
        tours of Hyde Street Pier and the historic waterfront, a
        salmon BBQ, 75-cent Anchor Steam beer, local comedians and the
        first annual "Taxi Drivers Trivia" game, the event will serve
        to rally Fisherman's Wharf and local San Francisco
        neighborhoods behind revitalizing tourism in San Francisco.

        Assembly Majority Leader Kevin Shelley will speak at 5:15 p.m.
        during the event.

WHERE:  The corner of Beach and Columbus Streets, aboard a 1955 Mack
        fire engine.