CEOs of Visa USA and Shorenstein Co. to Discuss San Francisco's Growth Issues At San Francisco Business Times Breakfast.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 Visa USA president and chief executive Carl Pascarella, and Douglas Shorenstein, chairman and chief executive officer of the Shorenstein Co., will be featured speakers at a special San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Business Times breakfast forum July 20 on the growth challenges facing San Francisco amid the prosperity of the new economy. The technology revolution is fueling a sizzling siz·zle intr.v. siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles 1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat. 2. To seethe with anger or indignation. 3. economy and a four-year building bonanza in San Francisco. But this year's building boom was brought to a screeching halt as development hit a limit imposed by Proposition M, the voter-approved cap on new office development. Issues stemming from the city's explosive growth also will be examined, including parking and traffic problems, meteorically rising rents and a shortage of available housing. Other prominent speakers at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast will be Kent Sims, economist and author of the report on the San Francisco economy by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR); Howard Wexler, land-use attorney at Farella Braun + Martel LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol ; Mara Brazer, managing partner at the San Francisco Partnership; and Daniel W. Winey, AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture , vice president and managing partner at Gensler. Visa recently announced that the card association is moving its headquarters to downtown San Francisco from suburban Foster City. San Francisco-based Shorenstein Co. owns approximately 8 million square feet of commercial space in San Francisco and Oakland, making it the region's biggest owner of downtown real estate. Shorenstein, Pascarella and the other speakers will discuss smart growth and what it will take to continue San Francisco's wave of economic prosperity. The breakfast forum will start with 7:30 a.m. registration on July 20 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The two-hour program begins at 8 a.m. Cost of registration is $35. To register, call Felicia Brown at 415/989-2522 or e-mail her at fbrown@bizjournals.com by July 14. The San Francisco Business Times breakfast forum, called Building San Francisco: Growth Challenges in the New Economy, is sponsored by Holt Hinshaw; Winstar; i-scraper.com; Hunt Construction Group; KBM (Knowledge Based Manufacturing) A full-featured custom manufacturing ERP system from Acacia for the AS/400. It was originally developed by Data3, which was acquired by the ASK Group and then by Computer Associates (CA) in 1994. See Acacia. Workspace/Kimball Office Group; and Farella Braun + Martel LLP. Partnering associations in this special event are the San Francisco Partnership, the San Francisco chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (BOMA Boma (bō`mə), city (1984 pop. 197,617), Bas-Congo province, W Congo (Kinshasa), on the Congo River estuary. A port and railhead, it exports tropical timber, bananas, cacao, and palm products. ) and SPUR. The San Francisco Business Times, along with its affiliated newspapers the East Bay Business Times and the Business Journal serving San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. and Silicon Valley, provides news and insight into one of the most vibrant regional economies in America. The three newspapers are owned by American City Business Journals Inc., which also features the nation's most complete coverage of local business news on the Internet at http://www.bizjournals.com. |
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